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And everybody's assigned certain areas so depending on what area we're assigned, we'll do our little search pattern in the search box that we have and report back if, in fact, we see anything. >> so we know two american planes up in the air, a p-8 and the navy p-3. they've covered an amazing area, 220,000 nautical square miles. how much more ground do you have to cover? >> well, it depends on where we get assigned for the -- with the air tasking order from the australians who are leading the search. it's just -- it's just where we get assigned and if the boxes move and the boxes shift, we just...

Planes to head out today, six military aircraft, five civilian. they've got a lot of area covered but of course the most important will be these new images from the french satellite. it's about 154 square miles that they're focused on with 122 objects that they see. some of them as big as 24 meters. so what we're talking about is potentially the debris, but we really need those planes to get up in the air, get down low, and take some picture os to identify what these ones actually are. and they have to do it pretty soon because unfortunately the latest weather report seems to say that the weat...

Taken off from perth. what the u.s. navy plane, the poseidon that is there, the p-8, as it is called? >> yes, our p-8 is scheduled to fly a search mission today in the southern indian ocean in the potential area of the debris field. so i have here on my list just listen to this amazing list. china, south korea, japan, india, australia, and the u.s. and others all flying missions in this southern sector under the lead of australia but out of perth here. that's simply incredible. if you look at the seventh fleet and the countries of this region, to have this type of cooperation and collaboration...

Plane as part of this operation. the p-8. any other u.s. assets, ships deployed in the region right now to try to help? >> i think the big news for the u.s. navy and its support, we're moving in two very advanced pieces of equipment. one is called a tpl, or a toad pinger located and another is called a blue fin. when we think we have a good point where we want to search, we will deploy those, once again, on an australian vessel under the lead through their coordination. but those pieces of equipment are what most likely will find the black box, if at all, it can be found. >> what are you heari...

Plane went down definitively in the ocean and everybody died. >> well, look, it may be a little premature, but let's go to the next slide very quickly. we have got some of the most sophisticated assets out there at the moment. we have the p-3 orion, we have this chinese aircraft, this is the p-8, the premium up surveillance aircraft. and they all have very sophisticated equipment. there are limitations to technology and what has been spotted so far has been from the human eye. janice already spoke to the conditions, you spoke to the conditions, the sea states are pretty horrific in terms of id...