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Spokesman for the fleet in the philippines. good to talk to youering commander. thanks very much for joining us. tell us first about the decision not to send the p-8 tomorrow. >> well, it's actually a fairly routine standard operating process. it's plan maintenance. we watch the fatigue levels of our pilots and our air crew very carefully. along with the planes. so you can't keep a human being up for 24 hours, continuously. you can't operate an aircraft continuously. and that's not just the u.s. navy. that's pretty much universal around the world in all military, so we do watch these levels ve...

Of hope that the new wave of aircraft that are heading back out to that location may find whether the -- what the first set of eyes and equipment did not find, confirmation of that debris. so right now we have two 3-3 orion class aircraft that are over that area.so right now we orion class aircraft that are over that area. its's 10:00 here on the east coast. it's 10:00 a.m. there in the morning. they are also accompanied by a civilian gulf stream aircraft. and they have the able to use some onboard electronics to look in this general suspect area. later today there will be another p-3 leaving,...

Advanced aircraft, the p-8, part of the search in the indian ocean for the missing malaysian plane. searches in that area soç far turned up empty-handed. an amber alert for an 11-year-old abducted by his father in virginia and police believe he might be in extreme danger. it is being called the biggest i.r.s. scam ever. thousands of taxpayers across the country conned out of over $1 million. if you get a call claiming to be the i.r.s. just hang up. they usually correspond by mail. good to know. >> time now to take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first the good. a look at qu...

We still don't know if those two fuzzy satellite images are pieces of the missing plane, but either way, it does seem like a few major countries are going all in to search that area for malaysia airlines flight 370. just today, china announced it's sending three warships to the coast of australia, japan, and india, and also sending resources, new zealand -- the resources from new zealand, australia, and the u.s. are already there. joining me now, nbc's tom costello. what's the latest? >> the latest, they still have spotted nothing out there, of course, and now it's, what, 10:30 at night in tha...

>> i think it's really just a matter of flight conditions and darkness, to be honest. it's 11:00 at night there. you have now had today five planes in that search zone. you had three p-3s, these sophisticated submarine hunters with those radar -- with that radar technology. those coming from australia and new zealanzealand, also a p-8, very sophisticated, most modern sub hunter the united states has, and a c-130 cargo plane was out there as well, dropping these buoyant markers. the idea is they transmit constant data about the sea currents and the ocean conditions, and that information transmi...