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370. the crew is not sending back real-time data but they do report on voice communications that they have seen nothing that supports what the australian military said was suspect debris floating on the water. that doesn't mean that it is not there. it just means that so far, the p-8 in its search has been unable to find anything that reflects what those satellite photographs suggested. of course, that would be a suggestion of some sort of debris that may be from this boeing 777. >> let me ask some very basic questions, kerry. the first thing that come to mind, if this was skin which bob hager...

That does not prove to be the case. first of all, this is the general target area here where they are looking, so they're flying out of the perth. as we go to the next map, you can see the area we are talking about is around 11500 miles to the southwest of perth. it's important to note while that's the search area, the debris it's believed they may have found is just to the south of that. a bit outside of the target areas. while they were looking for this debris, for the moment -- the p-8 aircraft, which is called a po siden, and the p-8, which are called the orion, have all

New information just coming in right now about breaking news on the plane. a navy spokesman sayrç the p-8 poisedon aircraft has returned to perth, australia, with nothing to report. after flying a ten-hour search mission in the indian ocean. it searched over the area designated by australians earlier in the day for approximately four hours and found nothing it thought might to be the wreckage. however it is not clear if the area where the debris was spotted is this area that the p-8 was searching. it won't take off again for another ten hours or so. >> we don't know exactly where it was going...

Yags history. the square miles that they have had to cover and what they've covered already, but would go it can a safe assumption that given the technology, given the so festication of the aircraft we're talking about, both the p-8 and p-3 if on this run they don't see anything to corroborate what was on that satellite imagery that the conclusion would be that it was not part of the plane? >> i'm not sure it would be a conclusion it wasn't part of the plane. i think it would be considered more of a false lead and they would probably have to go back and continue to look for it. just because th...

Satellite images would lead us to search. what else is going on simultaneously here? >> well, first of all you're going to use the aircraft to try to figure out the exact search area you're looking for. and then you'll have craft on the water that will eventually make it to the scene. and hopefully actually pluck the debris from the water so they can start identifying it. >> one of the things that we know is that they can obviously know where the ships are on the water. that there is a cargo ship. has the nonmilitary ship. it will be days before they can position ships in that area. but one of...