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Earlier, it is more likely that a pair of eyes are going to again identify something floating in the ocean and much of the detection equipment on board the aircraft. >> let me bring our panel back in, joined by cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes in washington and nick castaldo, spent 20 years at the if, aa and retired navy captain and diver bobbie scoley. bobbie, i'll start with you, if you were in charge of finding this airplane, what would you be doing right now? >> i'd be doing pretty much what they're doing, get as many resources as possible trying to look for surface debris, get reso...

To do the trick here, many people believe. because they have to get up close. they have to see exactly what it is and whether there's even some remote chance that it's part of the airplane or just some debris floating through the ocean. >> barbara, we know there's been a lot of shared resources here and u.s. military undersea technology is, as i understand it, possibly the next step to try to find something? >> yeah, you know, you're right. defense secretary chuck hagel at the malaysian minister of defense and transport spoke yesterday on the phone. and the malaysian minister asked secretary h...

You get very windy conditions. and so that's what we're going to be dealing with over the next 48 hours. this is our cnn exclusive high resolution model. we are tracking a cold front that is going to sweep through the area where they are searching. this is sunday, 8:30 eastern time. so as we get close to nightfall on sunday, near australia, we are going to see that cold front move through. it is going to bring showers to the area but not only that, it's also going to increase the winds. that just adds insult to injury. you can see close to 50 moo 50-mile-per-hour winds as we go through the day...

Ocean's currents to zero in on the plane's data recorder, finding it among those peaks and valleys could be even harder still. >> if it's in one of the deeper channels, that's going to be more of a challenge. >> right now the focus though is on finding nose floating ones and a lot of that really depends on the weather. all the waves were forecast to die down a bit as the search party headed out in australia on saturday morning, searchers now el us they were met with dense fog when they did head out. we know now the conditions are expect to deteriorate by the time they head out tomorrow. they w...

Freighter containers. they could be masses of garbage that's just drifted together. they could be anything. and then we're just back to zero again. >> and i understand there is some difficulty obviously where this part of the ocean is in terms of the search efforts. earlier this week i was looking at underwater robots that may be used in this search. is that something that you think could be deployed here? could that help? >> those underwater search systems can be deployed but not at this point. until we actually have a higher probability of where the aircraft might be, we would not bring the ...