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>> you expand. if you take a search zone you want to take a wedge of pie, the tip of the pie is the incident and every hour that goes by that pie gets bigger. and as the pie gets bigger the area gets bigger. >> how are the factors -- how does this differ than mh370? it's not as deep a water. >> not as deep water. correct. there's a lot of islands in the area a lot of traffic. a lot of possibilities to find debris. and it is a searchable area. that depth, it may take some type but they can search it a lot faster than 370. 370 is searching mountain ranges. and this is a lot smaller. >> and the c...

That if the plane is at the bottom of the sea, which is still the working assumption here, well past 40 hours, even the vice president of this country saying anything after that very unlikely we're going to see survivors. but miracles still do happen. 156,000 square kilometers. that's roughly the size of california. that is the search zone we're looking at. now, you mentioned smoke. smoke has been detected coming from an island within that search zone. they are on their way. search crews are on their way there. we're staying in pretty close contact with the search crews out of jakarta, and the...

Singapore. unlike flight 370, it went missing over the java sea in a heavily traveled shipping channel with shallow waters. 1,126 searchers are deployed from australia, singapore, malaysia south korea, japan, and new zealand. along with indonesia's navy army air force, and police force. and the "uss sampson" is also on its way to the java sea, where it's already tuesday morning. we have an expert team standing by to answer all of your questions. make sure you use the hashtag 8501 qz. but i want to get to cnn's reporters in the search zone. andrew stevens is in surabaya indonesia. will ripley j...

But the bad thing about the lower and the shallow level here is that the current's going to be stronger in these shallow seas. the current's significantly stronger, a west to east flow. that could be a major issue over the next couple days as they try to zero in on potential debris across this region. we know the plane dealt with at least one line of very active weather, had a clearing in place tass moved over this region shortly after sun rise on sunday morning. and of course it goes beyond this into another complex of thunderstorms. so the uncertainty remains of what happened in that last 15...

Taking family members over the search zone. this was before we knew where the debris was. that it would be taking passengers anyone that wanted to go over that area. i suspect that flight will still be on because when flight 370 disappeared, the malaysian airlines were offering to take family members to the crash site. the only thing is we never did find out where that crash site is. now we know where flight 8501 went down. so that flight with family members, likely to go ahead tomorrow. it will be incredibly painful, but you speak to psychologists. they say this is an important part of the gr...