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Strongest lead anyone has. the next step is to get more planes down there. the weather is not helping. and also, they need sea assets, surface vessels in the area at the moment. there is only one, an australian warship. more are coming, but it's still going to take time for that to happen. >> really important, you mentioned the weather. you've got really bad weather coming in. that's going to make it much more difficult to get assets in the ocean, close to where they think this debris is, to actually confirm these sightings that the planes and the satellites are finding, right? >> reporter: ye...

Out of fuel. they have to calculate fuel burn, aircraft maintenance and fuel logs. >> i just want to ask, mary brought up the search there as well. it seems it's paltry information so far -- or at least incomplete leading them to devote so many resources in the air, sky, indian ocean. are you surprised on that focus based on the information they have. do you think is irresponsible at this point to eliminate the other possibilities, even that northern arc where this flight could have ended up. >> i think that's a really tough decision for them to make, jim. if they don't devote enough aircraft,...

Those surface vessels headed to the area will be key in this search. a painstaking process, as john blaxland explains. thanks so much for being with us, john, this morning. really appreciate it. one of the things they've been dealing with over the last few days is the weather. >> yeah. >> at this moment, visibility in the south indian ocean, it's ideal. >> but that window of opportunity for searching is going to be closing again soon. our meteorologist indra petersons is looking at the conditions in this zone. this is critical, because they're not getting radar detections. this is all about li...

Locate it so far because of clouds, rain and limited visibility, and it is crucial for planes or for surface vessels to get their eyes on this possible debris. >> and we have been talking about this this morning, how difficult it was going to be to get there, how difficult both the visibility and the weather conditions were going to be the there. you're looking at a map right now. this gives you an idea of that search area. it's about 1,400 miles southwest of perth, australia, and there are navy ships on the way, there have been aircraft that have been dispatched. and the goal here is to get e...

Objects, this debris. still a very difficult task. john young did keep coming back to this point, that it's still a very difficult task, not helped, john, by weather conditions there, either. poor visibility, the actual sea conditions have been described as moderate, but they're in the far southern latitudes. surface vessels also making their way to the area which has been identified as where these objects are. and australian warship has left just outside perth on its way, but that's going to take several days to get there. we do know there's commercial shipping in the region. we don't know wh...