"america tonight"'s sara hoy hol follows up with details. >> a week ago the fbi announced it would be able to retrieve and examine material delated from pilot zaharie ahmed shah's simulator. >> if it's deleted you can recover the program. what you are trying to do is recover the thoughts, communication of the pilot. what flights was he loading in. >> agents are analysing computer files from the pilot and co-pilot fariq abdul hamid as well. the federal bureau of investigation hopes to have an analysis shortly. the fbi told congress on wednesday. u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel says we can't rule anything out, not even terrorism. >> i don't think at this point we can rule anything in or out. we have to continue to search, as we are, and the united states continues to stay committed. we have aircraft in the area working out of the malaysia and perth. as you know, we moved two of our most sophisticated locators to the perth area. >> more than a dozen ships and planes are scouring an area roughly 1500 miles south-west of perth australia. there's where more than 120 objects bobbing on

sara hoy, thank you for being here. >> moving to the search. that has been joined by more than 2 million people. wonder how - they are looking through a crowd sourcing campaign by a colorado satellite company. joining us via scope is digital globe director dr hanoy. appreciate you being with us. give us a light run-down on what you are asking from the crowd sourcing contributors. what are they doing? >> absolutely, we have been fortunate to deploit satellites to capture loads of imagy, we captured 25,000 square kilometres of images. we are asking the government to analyse the situation. >> what is analyse in this context mean. >> you are asking them to look through the images that you have. >> exactly. we need people to identify what is going on inside it. >> what are they say. what are they reporting in? we are asking people to identify oil slicks, boats, and we are finding all of that throughout the search area. >> what's with the information once you have it from your contributors. what do you do with it? >> we have contributions from 2 mill