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To see the chinese take an active role in trying to find this aircraft. >> 7,000 meters. and people go in that? >> that's right. it's a battery-powered submarine. it has a limited time on the bottom so it would have to be used for a targeted search. but they have the capabilities of reaching all of the depths. >> and then there is this one, that found the air wreckage of flight 447. how do these vehicles work? >> these are launched on a program so the operators locate a search pattern and then the vehicle is deployed, dives to the bottom, usually operates at 100 feet or more off the bottom and...

It is to retrieve something from the bottom of the ocean if we're dealing with depths beyond 10,000 feet. >> well, ed, the first order of business is locating the debris. assuming this floating debris is from the airplane. and some of my peers have speculated that it's not just based on the fuzzy images we have seen. they may be iso containers lost overboard from a ship. shu should it prove to be true, they have to do a backtrack and the set and drift calculations to find out where the debris originated. go back to that location, and the basic tools to locate it will be a side scan sonar towed...

To track it back. >> because even though this is a great lead, that's a good term to use because they're hoping it leads them somewhere else. it's not just about finding this. this is about find wrg it crashed. that's most likely going to be where everything you need. >> the search pattern has moved south, correct? >> yes. it's moving slowly south as they believe the currents are going. >> probably because the xurnt moving zbhchlt right. >> so it had as to go back to find the plane. >> because where the plane actually landed will not be where they find this debris. >> not at all. this is a clu...

Around that last point of the fuel exhaustion period for the search area. but the first thing they're going to do is follow the intended flight path. now, if this airplane either dove into the ocean because of some high altitude upset, or say somebody breached the cockpit and that is pure speculation, of course. and dove the airplane into the ocean or if the pilots dove the airplane into the ocean and there have been some examples of that there would just be a little bit of debris on the surface of the water. and that may take some time to locate and see from their search pattern. same thing, ...

Evacuate and proceed on a search pattern through the mall. this is a huge place. imagine someone trying to hide in a clothing rack to have a snipers view of the officers. >> you can see the heavy police presence and police vehicles spread throughout the mall at different points and larger tactical vehicles or ambulances also on the scene though there have been no reports right now and new jersey state police putting out a report five or ten minutes ago of no reports of any injuries a it this point but that the shooter was firing at security cameras. an early report from the new york state poli...