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Compared to the old area, 13 to 19 feet on average. so kind of the wave height alone allow for visual observation, certainly to be easier if you can see any material. also, of course, the depth of the water, and the weather, along this rolling 40s is much more voracious than where it is farther north. so that is certainly good news. here's this new area, about 123,000 square miles, kind of the size of new mexico, to give you a perspective. how big this area, the search area, when you see it on a map, it looks small but of course, it's massive. also this is that search area. under the water her...

Let me show you. this was the old search area. and the key thing here is what we call the roaring 40s which is the 40-degree latitude mark. and there we have very strong westerlies, big storms, big wind, big waves. and the storms move through completely uni'munincumbered. the new area, the weather here is certainly a lot easier in terms of the waves. on average here, wave height in the new are, about six feet. on average farther south, 700 miles south, they're about 16 to 19 feet. big difference when you're out there on the water and white caps. so also in terms of the water, the depth of the ...

That is easier to search? >> that's a good way of putting it. it's far enough north for the seas to be a lot calmer. the area is sort of boxed in almost, there's africa and australia on either side and i was talking to an oceanographer this morning and he was saying the average wave height in the southern ocean was up to six meters, where they're going now it's about three meters. so better conditions generally. the conditions are said to be fine. there's about -- well, there's ten planes going out today, several of them are already on target. the other thing, too, which is important in this, ...

Ocean, which is just getting worse, right? >> yeah, the next few days not looking good across the area. you see that cold front and where that debris was found, the last image. heavy rain, a lot of wind. those seas are going to get worse over the next three to four days. wave height models look like we'll see that increase until thursday. gives you an idea we probably have another four or five days of really rough conditions here before it mellows out a little bit. any kind of mellowing out there is short lived. maybe a day or two of calmer conditions. in the u.s., we have colder air that's di...

High seas can move the objects. there's so many moving parts here. we look at the cnn exclusive high resolution model, we are looking at another storm system to roll through in the next 24 hours. this is sunday, noon eastern time, which is midnight. so what, it's happening in the middle of the night. you can't say that. ahead of the system, we are looking at very high winds, looking at the waves to increase, the wave height and we are going to see the cloud cover increase ahead of this. so, as we go into sunday, it is going to be difficult for searchers to look in that area. we are also lookin...