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Immediately move in, coordinate with all these other countries and execute the plan that we trained for and that's what we're doing now. >> we're proud out there. commander william marks thank you so much for joining me this morning. >> thank you. we do have a bit of break being news out of california. a large earthquake was felt there. paul, what happened? >> well, it was significant enough to rattle my house and a couple of yards. the other indicator is a backyard pool started sloshing with water. it was a jerky motion from side to side. i live in the east san fernando valley so whenever y...

Specially when you consider the size of the area. we have some very intelligent pilots and air crew out there. they are making the best of it. >> commander william marks, thank you. we know you are very busy. we appreciate you taking the time to come here. we want to bring in our meteorologist, chad myers. this search area just keeps expanding, doesn't it? >> it does. >> i want to ask commander marks. he is here in the south china sea. none of them, either one of those ship is is really where the arcs are. i wanted to ask them why they are not where malaysia thinks the plane was. maybe we can ...

Navy's seventh fleet told me just a little while ago. >> the "kidd" and its helicopters have covered as much of the andaman sea as we can. we feel we've searched that area just to the west and south of burma. we're not going to find anything out there, we think. when you have a destroyer out there doing 10, 15 knots at a time, that's really not the most effective platform for the entirety of the indian ocean. so we said we got together, we said let's move a p-8 down to australia, we'll leave our p-3 in kuala lumpur. this is actually much more effective. >> commander william marks of the u.s. n...

The radar signal. so that could be wrong. so there's this cacophony of speculation, and that should be expected. but let's look at the facts as we know them and start with the folks on that aircraft and figure out their motivations and associations were. that's where we need to bend our elbows right now. >> as we reported, at least is our understanding, malaysian authorities have not searched the houses of either one of the pilots and the research they've done with two fake passports they said was linked to smuggling, not hijacking? >> why was that dispointed? >> thank you very much to both of...

So you have that circle, that radius there of search capability. and then really what's a game changer is today we have a mission with our latest technology in mixed-wing search aircraft. the most advanced search aircraft in the world. that range is into the thousands of miles. so that's land-based. going to take off from kuala lumpur area. that is looking west. so the initial track will look to the west. it will fly that direction, see what it sees with its surface search radar, and then fly back. >> commander william marks, spokesman for the navy's 7 fleet on the phone for us tonight. many t...