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They are well into that day. will ripley joins us now, live on a boat off the coast of western australia. looking behind you, the weather looks pretty decent. is this almost the best they can get? >> reporter: yeah, you know, it's pretty close to that, poppy, although one thing we have learned covering this story and covering the weather conditions out in the indian ocean, about 1,000 miles from where we are right now, is that it's highly unpredictable and can change quickly. but the word we are getting from the search zone is that conditions look a lot like what we're seeing out here right no...

The prime minister of malaysia. he'll be coming here. he'll be meeting the very teams that have been taking to the sky, have been taking to the sea, shaking their hands. he's doing all of this in front of cameras. also later today he's scheduled to meet with the prime minister of australia. part of this is to try to bring the malaysian authorities as well as the australian authorities together to show that there are people in charge here. but what's happened here as far as the search, as you point out, they've cleared one area. they're now picking up and searching a new section of the indian o...

Window has really held nicely. the next 24 hours look good. really start to deteriorate as we go late in the day on sunday. here is the approximate area they are searching. yes, just right to the northwest of that, that's where we are watching another area where potentially some of that moisture moves in. the winds kick up. we start to see the lower visibility. now, these airplanes that they have in the skies, the p-3 and p-8, they can fly at fairly low altitude and now they have the extra window, less time getting to the site that they are searching from yesterday's credible leads as it was s...

Results almost immediately. our own kyung lah went up into one of the search planes to look for the debris from flight 370. shows joining us live now from perth, australia, where it's nearing 5:00 a.m. kyung, what's their level of hope? they spotted stuff pretty quickly yesterday. do they think that now they are starting to look at pieces from this airplane? >> reporter: they don't know. they need to verify what these pieces that were spotted on the ocean actually are. on the p-8 that i was on, what they managed to see were objects on the surface of the ocean. as we were entering the search ar...

From all different places. it could be commercial, could be military, could be other government agencies. and then the second is it is timely. you never know where it may be if that indeed was debris. and then the third thing was, if you look at it, they're just little specks on the screen. so without visual confirmation you really don't know if it is debris or not. and so i encourage the flights to keep flying, we moved our second p-8 into the theater. and in my opinion, the -- it is critical to keep flying these missions in order to get visual confirmation on debris. and that way we can reve...