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Of that in other areas, and since we're 500 days out, we have a very very long time. but it's a great thing to potentially fight some of it. we likely see more of that. that doesn't mean we couldn't se debris very very far away from this as well as smaller pieces pieces that don't weight as much. pieces spread out in a different area could have gone in different directions. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> and this could be very big news. the suitcase. you think, could this discovery and the location in the current could it possibly help pinpoint point a crash site? dr. david is an oceanographer. ...

Last several days, chad myers and myself and others here in the cnn and cnn international weather center have been looking at this. the wave heights have been running around 13 feet, which is staggering. you don't get any visibility. the depth of the java sea is roughly in this area is roughly around 100-feet deep. so you get a surface wind that's 25 miles an hour, you get poor visibility and you've got almost the perfect storm for the incapability to do a significant search. >> well, you wonder how the search has been so productive thus far, as some have said, given the weather conditions. so...

Currents and climate and wind, surface wind and try to backtrack where it actually may have entered the water. but by time they get to that point, could be 13, 14, 15 days from the date of the -- from the night of the incident, the night the plane disappeared. so if you find the pieces, where were those pieces two weeks ago. >> right. >> tom fuentes, john magaw, thanks very much. still to come, for some, the disappearance of flight 370 has drawn parallels to egypt air flight 990. that jetliner crashed into the atlantic ocean in 1999 killing everyone on board. i'll talk to a man who lost his ...

Surface wind across japan. but let's look at what's happening right now on the radar. heavy rainfall from the midwest all the way down towards the southeast. and you can see the rain coming down really heavy right now parts of atlanta making for a messy commute out there. we're not expecting any delays right now at any of the airports. but notice this, we still have some snow through parts of north and south side. yes, coming down, but we're only talking about an inch of snowfall. this should not cause you any problems. you guys are professional when it comes to snow across the dakotas. and hi...

Something like 30 models? >> well, there's more weathermen than that. >> that's for sure. they all have a different model is what you're telling me? >> they all use different parameters. somebody might use -- these are all models, garbage in, garbage out. if they're junk, they're junk. if they're great, they're awesome. somebody may use a wind 2,000 feet in the sky. somebody may use the surface wind. how much you factor in every different piece of the pie is what's going to happen. here's the problem. how many people, richard, live right there? how many people live there? >> i would guess none...