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Most of the sample is organic material and not many plastic particles at first glance that's a good sign the beach appears to be very clean but we can identify many fibers with the naked eye what looks like hair could turn out to be plastic it needs more analysis. but they could still be a hard concentration of micro plastics in the sea it all depends on the ocean currents. that come with it and that are samples from the canary islands who are full of micro plastics. you can see the difference everything that's organic fire would be plastic over there it's a disgrace made a. mess tourism hasn'...

2,647 miles away. that has been over a year now. this thing has been floating out there and has been influenced by the ocean currents at this point here. the ocean currents there are five gyres across here because of the circular nature. the gyres do so as well. the piece found on the beach on the coast was large enough buoyant enough to be carried by these gyres which control essentially the first 300 meters or so above the ocean current here. one we are particularly interested in is the indian ocean gyre and southern hemisphere. and things move toward the left in the southern hemisphere. win...

Of doing a broad scale search. >> miles, if the bluefin-21 missions turn out to be a bust al together, can we expect investigators scale back other aspects of the search, do you think? >> yeah. i think, jake, just picking up on what rob said, there's a huge cost factor that comes into play here. remember, the aerial search which continues is based on this data, this location which is being searched right now. if it doesn't pan out, then all of the equations that have been put into the mix, if you will, to determine where debris might be by hindcasting the ocean currents, all of that is for not...

Need to help those families figure out what happened to their loved ones. so search crews, they look and they look, and they find nothing. perhaps the debris is gone, perhaps it wasn't the debris we thought it was. today might be different. we have new images and it's got our analysts talking. more than 120 pieces, not 2, not 3. and some of these pieces are very big. and they're spread out over a huge area. if the predictions about ocean currents and wind are correct, that's also good news, because these pieces are roughly in the right spot to be the plane's wreckage. tom foreman has been watc...

David soucie and christine dennison, thank you to you as well. tom foreman will take us on a virtual tour of this area, of the indian ocean where the search is focused and we will learn more about the currents and what might actually be happening with 122 pieces three days later. we also have another developing story that we're following for you. a huge and deadly mudslide in washington state. images for you now that are just heart-rendering shows how big and devastating this mudslide has been. we're going to update you on that. and we also have new information this hour on that 4-year-old...