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Singapore. >> u.s. fort worth, that ship is getting ready to sail and can be ready in a day or two to get on station and can be there fairly quickly. >> reporter: and we know that heavy rain bands, jim, are sweeping through the search zone. there are swong winds and also -- strong winds and quite high waves. so this is a challenge for the search teams as they try to pull bodies out and try to locate crucially the main fuselage of that plane which has the voice and cockpit recorders and the black boxes, jim. >> this is just the beginning of a long and difficult and painful search effort. thanks...

Their narrowed it down when they were able to spot this debris. how does that help them paint backwards to what happened? >> don't confuse the fact they said this is the search zone from where they were actually searching. >> okay. make that clear to us. >> well they say we're going to extend the zone. that's the logical thing you do when you can't find anything immediately, you widen it out. but it doesn't mean you've suddenly shifted everything to the furthest extremity of the zone. say with mh-370, if you look at the zone it's huge it doesn't mean they're combing the whole lot of it. they g...

Region. again, we have about two hours and 15 minutes before the sun sets. so put the maps in motion. this is the current moment all the storms generally out of the search zone and you fast forward through the morning hours of wednesday morning. a lot of weather just south of the search area which would be the debris area across this region. notice wednesday not too bad. things begin to part wednesday afternoon, looking at partly cloudy skies, isolated storms certainly a possibility. thursday this is the morning hours, the sun comes back up it looks as if this pans out here. the operations as ...

Where the winds are favorable for thunderstorms. the search box is in place here. the thunderstorms already in place. this is the current perspective. notice the last point of contact with the aircraft. major thunderstorms. plenty of cloud cover, another complex of thunderstorms again, on that second area with the search zone in place. the only area you're going to have partly cloudy skies is well to the north of the search area. an expansive region, and the current perspective as far as rainfall, plenty of it across the southern tier. and i want to take you into the morning hours. in this par...

There tracking developments. we just heard news about the families will be taken via plane to the search area. in that press conference, what was said? what did you hear? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, robin. this is a request, actually, from the families of the passengers. they want to go across the search zone because they want to pray. and they want to pray because they think that will help find some sort of resolution on what is still a mystery on where this plane is. they have made it quite chelearo airasia that they want this flight to happen. and airasia said absolutely. they will be ...