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Calculating all that data from the time they lost contact from the last transmission of the airplane, that's how they come to this box they're looking at right now. but officials are saying every day, the search box is going to change as time goes on and the urgency will probably grow. >> that box still the size of about new mexico. so, does this mean they have effectively given up on the northern route? >> well, technically no, but i have to tell you, since this happened, every u.s. military and intelligence official i've spoken so says they've genuinely believe most likely it is somewhere sa...

Malaysian authorities say that is still indispute. australian officials say that information from the u.s.'s national transportation safety board helped them refine the area they're searching to the southern most part of the plane's route. one us navy aircraft is helping out in that area. let's bring in jim. give us the big picture here about the focal points. >> we talkeded about these two routes. the northern and southern. u.s. officials i've talked to are becoming more focuseded here. one republican because there's a lot hoff radar coverage here. china in the west, pakistan, india, and they...

No country reporting legitimate verified, if you will, radar hits of a plane. just simply no indication that it is up in asia in any of those 11 countries and u.s. officials feel pretty confident as each day goes by, if there had been any information about it being up there, they would have heard it by now. the issue is satellite coverage in the indian ocean. commercial satellites have been moved that way. u.s. satellites, the classified satellites regularly don't cover that area, but they are going back through everything they have. wolf? >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you. let's bri...

There is a record of it? >> there should be. however, that is a large area. and it would depend on our satellite coverage of that area at that time. but, let's go back to the -- what probably happened on this in my opinion, with everything that's been released thus far, none of it, except in one extreme case, fits a hijacking. ened and, in that case, it would be a hijacking by the crew. and none of that makes sense from everything that's been released about the crew. >> just that we don't think that there is anything strange in the background but we're not even through going through hard drive...

>> it's a fair question, but the problem then becomes where do they put the airplane. how do they secret it away. we have such great satellite coverage over much of the subcontinent, the middle east. it would be i think just practically impossible to hide it the airplane from us. >> there's one point we need to make i think. the more incredulous the possibilities with due respect to yourself, but the more incredulous or more outlandish some of these things, the more damaging it becomes to finding the plane, to the credibility of what's going on. because you've got to the sort of stay within th...