brendan nicholson, for the newspaper, the australian, and i want to thank art sampson as well. former pilot for delta airlines. i. before we go, i want to show you the scene from beijing and these are family members, distraught, hundreds of them outside of the malaysian embassy, family and friends of those apparently lost now with mallerationa, bring our families -- another sign reading, liars, tell the truth. and they broke through the lines, i understand, and beijing authorities have called more in. obviously, we're going to bring you more, i'm tony harris in new york, and have a good evening. >> it went down in the southern indian ocean - the latest grim details about the missing malaysian airliner. deadly force on camera, the albuquerque is under federal investigation. what is it like to be american and imprisoned in iran - three hikers share their harrowing ordeal. >> and america's greatest concentration of wealth. >> i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". here is more

joining us on the phone, brendan nicholson in canberra, australia. we appreciate your time sir.t are your sources telling you about the search for had debris? >> what the people around the world should understand, a firm grasp is the scale of the task. this is like the marine equivalent of the world's biggest desert. it is just an absolutely enormous area. and what we're actually -- what's being searched for are some objects that appeared on satellite imagery, nearly a week ago. now it took an awful long time for people to go through the vast amount of data that was actually available and identify what they thought were a couple of floating objects. this has led the authorities in australia to believe that they're by no means certain, they're parts of the missing aircraft, that there's enough of a possibility to make it worth searching. now, a week ago, they were, as was described by our search people, they were awash. they were just on the surface, with waves breaking over them. it's possible they could have sunk. it's possible they may not have been wreckage. and as your previ