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Down somewhere not related to where that ping is? >> the surface vessels that are searching in terms of the black box and the pings will be looking in a distinct area. >> right. >> the area we're focusing on today is based on ocean modeling and drift markers, we dropped those several days ago. and it's actually showing that the currents in the area are not moving as much as we thought. so the separation of those two areas is not unusual. >> right. i understood your point. my colleague richard quest wanted to ask a question, commander. >> commander, richard here. help me if you can. why do you ...

Satellite images, all of those turned out to be "other things." our matthew chance is live in perth, australia, for us this morning. matthew, i know that they have a submarine, and then they also have two ships that are equipped with this high-tech gear out on the search now. what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the latest is that this subsurface phase of the search operation has really gotten under way with the presence of that british nuclear submarine the "hms tireless." it's equipped with underwater detection technology, but also with two surface vessels as well. again, one...

That we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can. >> and they're doing that now with that, as we said, intensive effort looking for any debris, any sign of what happened to this aircraft. still very much under way, john. >> matthew, very quickly, it's just after o'clock in the afternoon in perth. what's the latest on today's smerj. >> well, the various aircraft, we've seen eight aircraft according to the australian controllers and the search operation teams that have been in the skies scouring those waters. there's at least nine surface vessels as well that are making their w...

>> we are skeptical but i hope what they've got is some slight indication of a ping that directs their surface vessels with the towed son n sonar. that's what i'm hoping for. that it's not just supposition. >> if theaf ping from one of the flight data recorders, that would be a big announcement. >> huge. that would be worth saying it's a big announcement. >> because at that point, tom, you could really direct the search to a specific location and hopefully locate it. >> wolf, if they are announcing that they have a big announcement and they don't have anything that significant, what a huge mis...

They spotted seeing different colored objects in the new search. our kyung lah was with the crew on one of the planes. they said she saw an orange rope and a blue bag but cautioned that this area, this part of the ocean certainly has a lot of garbage. it is hard to say if it has anything to do with flight 370. >> i want to show you something a military plane from new zealand spotted today. you can see that rectangular object in the water right there. right now, it is nighttime in perth, australia. they are looking at photographs from the new search area. they are analyzing these photos. surfac...