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20 knots, nautical miles per hour, ships can cover that area with not too much difficult. now look over to the indian ocean. a ship is not going to cover the entire indian ocean. we have two mh 60 search and rescue helicopters. when you factor them and you're talking hundreds of miles of range, and then today we have two patrol aircraft searching missions. now we're talking, when you talk range there, they can get out there a thousand miles or more and really get some good search area. in addition, it has the most advanced surface search radar in the world that can look down there for this typ...

Expanding into the indian ocean. u.s. navy commander william marks is on board the "uss blue ridge" which is helping in the search. he joins us by phone. commander, yesterday the "uss kidd" was sent south. is there a specific location it's being sent to? >> we do have a third specter that was coordinated with the government of malaysia. it's not too far northwest out of the strait of malacca. right there kind of at the entrance. i should point out that's the "uss kidd." you only can search so much area with a ship. now what you have to factor in there are the helicopters. now you're looking at...

Up. it would indicate someone was in command of that aircraft. it was not on auto pilot or something like that. someone was in charge. hold on for a moment because joining us on the phone now is u.s. navy commander william marks with the u.s. navy seventh fleet aboard the "uss blue ridge." your ships are moving into the indian ocean. i assume the "uss kidd" is there now. how is the search going? >> good morning. we're starting out our day on saturday morning here in the pacific, about 5:00 in the morning here. so we do have "uss kidd" that moved into the northwest part of the strait of malacca...

From our experience, when you have to recover the remains of bodies, that is extremely emotionally taxing and so we have a very good support system for that and that's what we are watching out for. >> well, our best wishes to you, commander, and all of the men and women of the united states navy, the marine course, all of the u.s. military personnel and members of the coast guard and others who are involved in this extraordinary search. we'll check back with you. of course, commander william marks of the u.s. navy's seventh fleet aboard the "uss blue ridge". the airliner may have crashed som...

Inaccurate reading. >> right. >> that could be the deviation from the radar signal. that could be wrong. my point is there's this cacophony of speculation and this should be suspected at this point, but let's look at the facts as we know them and let's start with the folks that are on that aircraft and figure out what their motivations and associations are. that's where we need to bend our elbows right now. >> of course, as we've reported, at least it's our authorities the malaysian authorities have not searched the pilots' houses and the two iranian men's passports were righted to smuggling. ...