and catalina flores will be joining us later in the program. and joining me now on the program is fox's own jennifer griffin, jennifer, you have been following it closely. it seems it is not a long period of time that they have been able to search. seems like a long distance that they have to fly out of perth. >> well, according to the u.s. navy officials involved in the search they have covered 125,000 miles so far. for the next 24 hours, the crew of the poseidon, the navy's most sophisticated aircraft, will rest. the maintenance will be done on the plane, it spent hours out today, and returned empty handed. it will return flying on sunday, we're told. meanwhile, the clock is ticking. >> it is about the most inaccessible spot as you can imagine on the face of the earth. but if there is anything down there we'll find it. >> when the u.s. navy's p-3 orion plane is airborne again, it will fly near the cocos islands, they're not searching for pinging devices but instead they will use equipment that can see pieces the size of a basketball. the spok

and joining us live tonight from canberra, is catalina flores, thank you for joining us.l us about the investigation 10:37 a.m. your time. what is going on. >> reporter: yes, sean, it is actually 1:32 in the afternoon and they're right in the middle of the search, they sent about five aircraft from australia, the u.s. and new zealand to the area around 2 and a half thousand kilometers across perth across the southern indian ocean. they're looking in an area around 23,000 kilometers. we're told the ocean there is very deep, rough, isolated. the problem is, sean, the images were captured by a u.s. satellite actually on sunday because of the very tedious process it was only discovered and made public yesterday. that means there is a high chance the debris has significantly moved from its original location. the search last night was unsuccessful because of poor weather conditions and today's search appears to be slowed again below cloud and rain. but we do understand a norwegian merchant ship has reached the search area and we're hoping for information on that. but we've also

joining me now with the latest on the search from australia, catalina flores is back. good to see you. >> good to see you, sean. as you know from the very beginning, the search has been at the mercy of the weather, and after losing 24 hours to bad weather, yesterday's search was vital. fortunately, the clouds did part to allow 12 aircraft from six nations to scour the area. now four chinese ships and australia's hma success are in the area. that search discovered three objects. unfortunately, they weren't able to relocate it on subsequent passes. malaysian sources say french satellite imagery has found 122 objects of interest floating in the southern indian ocean, about 2 1/2 kilometers off the coast of perth. we were taking they ranged in size from 1 meter to 23 meters in length and are brightly credible. they say it's likely they belong to the missing jet. today's search will focus on the area, involving six military aircraft, five civil aircraft, and five ships. we're told the weather is expected to deteriorate later today. >> all right, catalina, as always, another