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We'll zoom in. i'll show you where we got last information from this flight earlier this morning. this is the region. we watch the satellite presentation here. the data is within three hours so we're missing data here but you can see there clearly was thunderstorms in the region when you look at the satellite presentation. looking ahead for the search crews right now search has halted because of bad weather in this area. there is the depatrture conditions remains very calm for the next few days. but right now things are fairly volatile out here. the java sea is shallow. there isn't mountainous...

They will look at the communications on the flight deck. until then we don't know what was said or what was not said snm that will be key. in two of two and a half hours we have daylight. we understand what will be deployed in that flotilla being considered at the moment, indonesia. seven aircraft. the four navy ships and six boats from indonesia. malaysia, three navy ships and a helicopter. singapore will deploy two aircraft and a host of other countries that said, hey, we are going to help. this area is much smaller. what will they look for and how tough might it be? the monsoon season means...

>> thank you so much for your expertise. we'll come and speak with you several time throughout the show. stand by for us. thank you, mary. >> also want to bring in our meteorologist who is joining us from the cnn weather center to talk about what were the conditions here that this plane was undergoing? i understand it was several weather systems coming together. >> that's right. good morning. there have been reports that there have been roughly three thunderstorms that the pilot needed to navigate. and it's very clear with our latest satellite imagery that this area demarcated by the green cir...

That mark gave, one of the big issues that will be looked at in dissecting the weather conditions is mark talked about inflight icing at high altitude. in the recent past we've come across this thing called ice crystal icing, which can play a significant role in causing engine flameouts at altitude. so, of course in the dissection of the weather by the investigators, they're going to be looking at all of the components of that thunderstorm activity. the vertical up and downdrafts, which can be overwhelming for the airplane as far as the structure. it can actually cause a loss of control for th...

The last 24. rstorm activity is reasonable to assume and we always talk about weather first when we have an airline the disaster or mystery like this. even though it was reported, there were some issues here we take a look at the thunderstorm activity. this is an infra-red image. >> watch how it washes out. tremendous strength. incredible amount of water with this. the to rain itself out that fast means tremendous amount of energy was dropped from the sky.