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And "the new york times" reporting just moments ago that the flight went through very erratic changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control. joining us now is david gallo, from the oceanographic institute. david, what's the chance if you're searching in the northern part of the indian ocean around the bay of bengal as opposed to hundreds of miles south? is it basically different water levels? >> the water levels are a bit different. it can go in the northern part to very shallow and in fact there the sea floor is all of the sediments that is a very sedimented smooth bottom. but...

Oceanographic institution. he's part of the team that found air france flight 447 in the atlantic ocean off the coast of brazil. how difficult is it? the waters of the indian ocean, specifically, from those waters are very deep. what, about ten times the height of the empire state building. >> yeah, that's right, wolf. it's going to be very different, much more difficult than working inside the gulf of thailand where the water depth is less than the length of the airplane. here we're talking about water depths 2 1/2, 3 miles or more. and also it could be anything from the smooth sediments on t...

There's a lot of tools that you can bring to bear once you can narrow the search area down. so i think what people are waiting to see is, is there any new information, does the indonesian, air force, did they pick up anything, or are we concentrating on this area? >> what about the black box that we always hear about in these circumstances, presumably it is there somewhere, do you know the nature of modern black boxes in planes like this? >> oh, yes. and this water depth is simply not an issue. they can work down to 20,000 feet. you can get interesting pathways in shallow water, which would be...

It had enough fuel to go for seven hours. the last part to look at in all of this is the water depth. it's not terribly, terribly deep if in fact the plane was last spotted here and went down here but it's one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. there would be a tremendous amount of traffic and it could take a long time with all of that noise to hear the pinging of the flight data recorders. it's really an immense task, wolf, and it just got a lot more complicated. >> there's been absolutely no sign of any debris, at least so far. and this is day four of this tragedy. tom foreman, t...

We could see rain out of this. in the next couple of days, here, we could see in the immediate area of where it comes ashore and in the immediate area of any part of the cyclone's large size, rainfall totals up near 20" in some spots. not everyone will get that. >>shepard: doctor, you know that continental shelf right off louisiana with the shallow water, sometimes the storm hits that and speeds up. is that a possibility? >>guest: no, the forward speed of the storm is dictated by the atmospheric steering currents and they are not pushing it along really fast to the ramification of the shallow ...