first searching of western australia was in this area as suggested by that analysis. satellites did show objects of interest here, but no confirmed connection to the airliner. now it's thought the route actually headed down this path to here. that's because analysts have deduced from combining radar and satellite data that the jet was flying faster than previously thought. so it burned fuel more quickly. that's why the australian search operation is focusing on this new area. it is 1,100 kilometers northeast of the original search zone. the good news is that the new area, which is bigger than the size of the united kingdom, is a shorter flight from perth and that means planes can stay over the search area for longer, up to two or three times -- two or three hours longer. now, we can go to kuala lumpur. >> can you just confirm that altitude was factored into this new analysis which is now handed off to australia? what more can we get in order to get closer to potential wreckage which you identified of flight 370 and where are we with that inmarsat data? >> the requirem

our correspondent reports from perth in western australia. >> this is the latest lead in a mystery that has run for almost two weeks. to the untrained eye, the grainy satellite pictures could be anything, two objects, one 24 meters long, one five meters floating amid the indian ocean. here in australia, they were worth taking seriously. >> following specialists analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified. >> australian military aircraft as well adds planes from new zealand and the u.s. spent much of the day searching for the debris. it doesn't get much more remote with waves up to 17 meters high and the first plane on the scene could see nothing through the clouds and rain. >> unfortunately, with the weather conditions as experienced in the flight, we were unable to locate any wreckage or debris. our aircraft are continuing the search up until the last light. >> here is what we do know. the plane turned west back over the malaysian peninsula. satellite data suggests it traveled north toward central asia or south over the indian oce

you said there it is out on the water there off garden island in western australia.ou said you can't do what? >> well, this looks like a great asset. but obviously, it's never been deployed specifically for this purpose. so you got to make sure that things are all safe and ready to go, and that you don't lose all that expensive equipment. >> michael kay, cautious optimism. you said what? >> absolutely. this is a critical asset, but it's got a specific capability, which is used when you have zoned in on the area 10. i think we should be guarding against using this as what we call the silver bullet. we've still got to rewind and understand that the higher probability is finding the debris on the surface or on the ocean bed. and that's what the p-8s -- the p-3s should be doing. it has been delayed, but the maritime surveillance is still going to be out there and still looking for the on top of the surface clues. >> colleen, i wonder if this delay really puts the crew under pressure, giving them about two days before they get out in the area where they think that, you kn

in the state of victoria from western australia. it's a very, very difficult task. this deployment you can see behind me is probably one of the largest efforts you'll ever see in joint operations from china, australia, japan, new zealand, united states, etc. >> how urgent is the task given there is 13 days back for the beacon battery to tell you where the black boxes are? >> we not put pilots at right after this sxk have to deal with the location as best we can in terms of weather. it's been inhospitable. the turning point for us will be when we pull some piece of debris from the surface of the ocean and identify it as being part of the aircraft. >> is there information on support that they'll be providing for families. >> at this stage i don't the prime minister is very, very fixed on assisting malaysia, a very good friend of australia in dealing with the families of the crew and passengers on board this aircraft. we'll do what we can within reason. >> families are not convinced. i'm going to hand over to vice chief of defense who, as you can see with the royal aus

that area is 2,000 kilometers off western australia. it's now been narrowed down, but still covers tens of thousands of square nautical miles. this is the latest map showing the areas being searched. it was released early on wednesday by the australian maritime safety authority. a total of seven military and five civilian aircraft are involved divided into an eastern and western sector with six aircraft each, among them four p 3 orion planes. the malaysian transport minister told today's news conference new satellite images have been analyzed and show a number of objects floating in the southern indian ocean. >> am liesed the images and in one area of the ocean measuring 104 square kilometers were able to identify 122 potential objects. some objects were a meter in length. others were as much as 23 meters in length. some of the objects appear to be bright, possibly indicating solid material. the objects were located approximately 2,557 kilometers from perth. >> the minister stressed those objects cannot definitively be linked to the mis

just remember we are looking in an aircraft from victoria and perth and western australia. that what we are doing. if you want to put it in a description,er with looking for in the area of victoria in western australia. this deployment you can see behind me and all of the aircraft i've name said probably one of the largest efforts you will ever see in terms of maritime surveillance and joint operationes from china, australia, japan, new zealand, united states, korea. >> how many days are left for that beacon to tell us where the black boxes are. >> we cannot put pilots and crews at risk. we can't put ships company at risk p. we just have to deal with this location as best we can in terms of its weather and -- >> sir, have -- >> all of the information in the -- >> you know, because objects have been found, but yet to be confirmed. >> as i say, the turning point for us, i think, will be when we pull some piece of debris from the surface of the ocean and identified as being part of the aircraft. >> do you have any more information on the support that will be providing for fami

remember, this part of the world has shipwrecked many westerners in australia. seaside 7, for big ships. > >> reporter: [ unintelligible ]. >> i will hand over in a minute to vice chief of defense who will tell that you everything that we have, you know about, and we're doing everything we can to first of all make a positive identification on a piece of debris. and that will mean that we're on the right track. that's not going to happen i think for at least another 24 hours because we have had to redeplay the ship, given the bad weather. >> reporter: the photos that the chinese provide. >> i have nothing further to add on that. i think you've seen all of the information that's out there. >> reporter: [ unintelligible ]. >> well, i probably wasn't because i was probably traveling somewhere, on the way back to western australia. the prime minister, i'm sure has been informed by the malaysians as when these have come to pass and they have been confirmed. >> do you understand that they're confident to what they have steen in the incident? >> it's very easy to specul

it was suggested it flew down into the southern indian ocean here, first searching western australia within this area as suggested by that analysis. satellites showed objects of interest here, but no firm connection to the airlines. now it's thought this was the route which was actually followed heading to this area. that's because analysts have deduced from combining radar and satellite data that the jet was flying faster than previously thought. so it burns fuel more quickly and that's why the australian search operation is focusing on this new area. it's 1,100 kilometers northeast of the original search zone. the good news is that the this new area, which is bigger than the size of the united kingdom, is a shorter flight time from perth in western australia. that means planes can stay over the search area for longer, up to two to three hours more than in the previous area. so what's the latest from perth? the bbc's phil murtha is there. what's the information coming from one of the planes, phil? >> well, this is from a new zealand air force p-3 orien, a surveillance aircraft that

airbase, western australia. goldfarb, to michael who formerly served as chief of staff at the federal aviation administration. the airliner vanished. closer to finding it? >> i do not think we are. we have the tragedy of the accident itself, and the tragedy of the investigation. they were caught offguard. we are in a situation we did not need to be in. the worst ocn area in the world. high waves. debris spotted five days ago, not likely to be in the same place. finded assets to try to things, and difficult. -- do you have any questions in your mind whether it is from a plane? >> the boeing triple seven is still a composite aircraft. that flight path and ran out of fuel, the wing would be filled with air. it would float and give us some clues. but it could be anything out there. i tell you, we have to be prepared for a really long search. >> is there any technology malaysia airlines could've had on board that would've made it easier to locate the plane once it went down? >> this is the sad thing about this. and c

just to put this into context, western australia, on the west coast of australia where perth is, theal of western australia, is the most isolated state capital in the world, and it goes for another -- these objects we're talking about go for another 1,500 miles southwest into the sea from there, basically into nothing. so, the problems are, "a," locating it, "b," weather is going to play such a critical part in this now, because to get that visual recognition, you need clear visibility. they don't have clear visibility out there. that's what we're being told, visibility is not good. the sea conditions are moderate. so, put those together and we've still got a mountain to climb. the rescue coordinators were saying at the press conference just a couple of hours ago that don't expect and don't be surprised if we don't find anything today. and when i say today, where i am, we've probably got another three hours of daylight left in the search zone. there's probably another four hours of daylight left. >> andrew stevens for us in perth, australia. it could be hours before we know whether t

reports australia has assigned the united states military to cover a large area off the coast of western australia the united states military covering stuff over in australia? what's wrong with the australian military? you have answers to that other things, correct? >> we'll show you where the search area is going to be. 1700 miles off the coast of western australia, off the city of perth, this blue x. about 1700 miles. >> good telela straighting. >> this is a rough area where they'll be searching. they're using a high tech military aircraft that just arrived earlier today in western australia and another aircraft similar, a p-3 poseidon aircraft. >> this is up in the bay of bengal. >> bay of bengal. don't know the exact area. so two of the same aircraft are searching in those two regions. >> all right. analysts say the majority of the southern corridor there is littered with so-called dead zones, areas that have very limited contact when it comes to radar and satellite. peter ducey has more on this. i didn't realize anything like this went on, certainly not that there were vast swaths of ocean th

chinese aircraft joined the search for wreckage today, 1,500 miles off the coast of western australia. they photographed some unidentified floating objects, as did an australian aircraft crew. ships are also on the way to the search area. this really is just the first step in trying to solve one of the world's aviation mysteries. a wreckage linked to the flight no positively identified so the search must go on for remains of the plane, black box, flight recorder and try to piece together the last few hours of the passengers and crew aboard flight mh-370. why it went down, thousands of miles off course, deep in the southern indian ocean may never be known. bbc news, kuala lumpur. >> objects floating in the ocean which may or may not give us a clue. as alastair reported the malaysian prime minister said his announcement was based on new analysis that comes on experts at the u.k.'s air accidents investigation branch. from inmarsat, the british company that provided the satellite data, our correspondant's been talking to the team behind the breakthrough. >> this is the very room they have

>>> let's go to western australia where officials say they are not able to resume the search today. andrew stevens is live in perth with more. andrew, you heard from the air marshal a short time ago basically saying that they don't have a haystack, they're still looking for that to search in. >> reporter: yeah, john. it was quite a sobering judgment from someone who definitely knows. before i get on to that, interesting listening to saima talking about the families who are looking for some facts, for something they can hold on to, the truth about the flight and why the malaysian prime minister made this call that the plane did go down in -- somewhere in the southern indian ocean yesterday. that question was pretty much put to the australian defense minister today, just how confident are you that the plane did, indeed, come down here and he said i'm confident based on the information we have available. so there is still very much a slither, a tiny, tiny percentage of doubt. there has to be because it's still based on technical data, on information until they get a positive i.d., a fi

>> malaysia has given primacy in the area to western australia. so if anybody thinks the chinese or anybody else thinks they're going to do a bit of their own investigation, to declare what it was, the australians have reminded them they are treaty bound to take it to western australia. >> richard quest, great to see you. >> good to see you, sir. >> when we come back, the anguish of the families. i'll ask a man whose mother was on the plane if he thinks he's any closer tonight to getting the answers he need as we wait for word on those objects spotted in the search zone. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!" bentaste-free andr, dissolves completely. and unlike other fibers, you'll only know you're taking fiber by the way good digestive health makes you look& and feel. benefiber. clearly healthy. i like it. must see. i found a great new listing. little busy here. i love this neighbo

>> malaysia has given primacy in the area to western australia. so if anybody thinks the chinese or anybody else thinks they're going to do a bit of their own investigation, to declare what it was, the australians have reminded them they are treaty bound to take it to western australia. >> richard quest, great to see you. >> good to see you, sir. >> when we come back, the anguish of the families. i'll ask a man whose mother was on the plane if he thinks he's any closer tonight to getting the answers he need as we wait for word on those objects spotted in the search zone. i've always had to keep my eye on her... but i didn't always watch out for myself. with so much noise about health care, i tuned it all out. with unitedhealthcare, i get information that matters... my individual health profile, not random statistics. they even reward me for addressing my health risks. so i'm doing fine... but she's still gonna give me a heart attack. innovations that work for you. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. [ male announcer ] when fixed income exp

it is 12:18 in western australia where the focus of this is.have a correspondent, andrew stevens there. we'll talk to him shortly. we have all the assets of cnn deployed on this. kyung lah is joining us from asia. i want to show you what australia's prime minister said earlier this evening, earlier this morning australia time. let's watch. >> the australian maritime safety authority has received information based on satellite imagery of objects possibly related to the search. following specialist analysis of this satellite imagery, two possible objects related to the search have been identified. >> i want to bring in a former faa investigator, author of the book "why planes crash." david, can you explain why if this is in fact wreckage and again we do not know, if this was in fact wreckage from the flight why this flight could have ended up in that region of the world. why the focus so much of the search has been there for the last 24 hours or so. >> well, either one of the most credible angles or theories could explain why it is in the area, o

it's sunday morning in western australia.t's where airplanes from china, south korea and the united states have taken off to start scanning for anything, plane wreckage related to those indian ocean search areas. ten airplanes in all and eight ship also be involved in the search on sunday. the only thing pulled from the water so far was some objects found by the chinese navy. we're waiting to hear more about them, whether they're linked to the missing malaysian airlines flight. stay with cnn throughout the evening. we'll break into programming if we get any new information for you. i have a quick update to tell you. secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister serge lavrov will meet sunday in paris. lavrov told a russian interviewer that russia has in his words no intention or interest to cross the border of ukraine. officials tell cnn that russia has as many as 40,000 troops along the border. it's been a week since a massive landslide wiped out two washington state towns. the confirmed death toll is now 18, but

into western australia. >> this is special facility offered for the family to come hear and to be flownaken by sea to the crash area. >> well i think those logistical operation need to be considered very carefully. i don't want to speculate because it is a major operation. this is as i say probably one of the most remote part of our planet. we want to get that right. we want to assist the family and friends to have some closure. but let's talk about that when we know how many are coming and when they are arriving. >> you are listening to a david johnson the australia defense minister updating the media on the latest on flight 370 which as you have heard here in our broadcast and may have heard today they now seem very convinced that it did in fact end tragically no. survivors plunging into the indian ocean 1500 miles or so roughly from off the coast of pevrt, australia. to the east. so just updating the media where they stand so far. this is in quite deep water. retrieving the black box or remain of wreckage is a real challenge. they are assessing the feasibility of all that. it's deepe

innson has the latest western australia. >> a disappointing day for the crew at the airbase. 200 kilometers out in the indian ocean, it was very different. >> visibility anywhere between five miles and zero. >> ike so many others, having seen nothing over the sea. it is hard enough to see anything. the search had to be suspended. >> one of the two chinese aircraft you can part in this, they were struggling with or visibility and eventually had to give up. news from faraway thailand offered a new possibility. images from a satellite taken on monday showed up to 300 objects in the southern indian ocean. objects.are real identify. >> the dispatch of a senior envoy is how concerned it is in the slow progress and the search. the involvement of so many of unusualzens is putting pressure on the chinese leadership to show results. there aren't for chinese ships and they are staying put. writing out the storms in the hope of a breakthrough. >> they seem to be in the right sort of area, but the area is very large and the weather is very bad. , shekrainian opposition will run for the presidency in an

from the missing malaysia airlines jet the search is being concentrated off the coast of south western australia the australian government says satellite images taken on sunday showed two large objects floating in the ocean one measured about twenty four meters long the other about five meters. australia and the united states had sent to patrol planes to waters. about twenty three hundred km southwest of perth on thursday and friday australian maritime safety officials say the visibility has improved and a cruise on board the planes are now searching for the objects initially but no the findings have been reported. search planes dropped marker buoys equipped with transmitters to collect current and when the day in the area were the objects were spotted officials say the objects could have been carried away by the currents. the data from the gooey school and it will be analyzed in efforts to relocate the pieces. we will move the search area according to where the winner has asthma and that's where the water has moved. i'm not the malaysian airlines plane was carried to under thirty nine people on

in kuala lumpur and western australia.are new developments in flight 370 and new questions surrounding what appears to be a growing focus on the flight crew. we'll be very transparent about the sourcing here, because it is important. there's a contradiction. "usa today" citing a high ranking malaysian law enforcement officer who says the captain of the flight is believed to be soly responsible for the flight being taken off course. if that reporting is accurate, it raises all sorts of questions.

in the afternoon in perth, western australia. it is going to take time toward the other aircraft to get out of that area. and indeed, many of them will only go out there around 8:00 p.m. this evening. and that could mean that they're trying to do a search mission in hours of darkness, albeit we're talking about the other side of aul australia and this search will go on through the night. we're not necessarily expecting to identify the wreckage, if that is what it is. in the next couple of hours. this could go on tomorrow and the next day, as well. >> no doubt about that. it could be a very long day and night. i'm sorry go ahead. >> yeah, i mean, i think you know one of the things that obviously to the relatives and friends of all the people on board, this is now in another glimmer of hope, that maybe they can find an end to this nightmare that they're going through. it is also starting to roll out one of the different scenarios that might have actually caused the loss of this aircraft in the first place. i mean, if this is the wr

will ripley off the coast of western australia.opments for you in this morning's search for this jet. a live update from malaysia's government is expected in about four minutes. we're going to bring you that live right after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] with five perfectly sweetened whole grains... you can't help but see the good. whole grains... so when my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis them. was also on display, i'd had it. i finally had a serious talk with my dermatologist. this time, he prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, a

has been on the southern arc, right at the extreme end of that southern arc off the coast of western australia. and apparently the officials managed to narrow down the scope of the search area, because they yielded a lot more information from the satellite pings, which the plane had been giving off every hour for about seven our eight hours or so. so what we know right now is that we're hearing from australian authorities that there is possible debris related to this plane. 13 days now or 12 days now they have been searching for this missing flight. and now we have what could be credible evidence of debris floating in the water. of course, there are still many unanswered questions, what is that debris, how far has it floated. richard quest is standing by in new york with more on this. and so richard, could this be the break that everyone has been waiting for? >> oh, absolutely. you have to put it in terms that it's unlikely that the australian prime minister would be holding a news conference if there wasn't a high degree -- no one is going to say, and i suspect he's not going to come out and

>> as you said, wolf, at this hour, the sun is coming up over western australia.raft, six merchant ships going out to have a look more on the way and perhaps most critically satellites overhead silently gathering more information. out of the public eye, the u.s. is using some of its most highly sensitive technologies and top secret government and industry analysts to help find flight 370. >> i wouldn't get into the specifics of each and every one of those tools because, you know, some of those tools we don't talk about. >> reporter: the u.s. believes australia's search area off its west coast is the logical place to find the wreckage. sources first told cnn on friday that, based on a classified analysis, u.s. officials thought the overwhelming likelihood was the plane went down in the indian ocean. the most recent clue? these satellite images which may or may not show the plane debris about 1500 miles off the coast. >> it is probably the best lead we have right now, but we need to get there, find them, see them, assess them to know whether it's really meaningful o

bill neely, nbc news, perth, western australia. >> and along the way of finding survivors, crews are focusing on finding the plane's flight recorder, where the plane's pinger is. it will only send out a signal for another 15 days. this morning, germany deployed a submarine to the area. >>> we are following a developing story out of texas this morning. a barge carrying nearly 1 million barrels of oil crashed into another ship in the galveston bay near texas city. the barge began to leak the oil almost immediately, which then flowed to a nearby bird sanctuary. crews said only one of the tanks was damaged, but that tank was carrying almost 170,000 gallons ofoi >>> traffic alert for you right now, for those of you who live and drive around the rosslyn area. north lynn street is closed until tomorrow morning. this is because crews are going to finish destroying the sky bridge. folks have been using it for years to get in and out of the rosslyn metro, but the whole area's being renovated. >> that's an inconvenience. it's very difficult to get across the street, obviously. >> everybody in t

these will be fitted to australian defense vessel ocean shield which will arrive in western australiadepth of the search area is 2000 meters and 4,000 meters. >> thank you. >> the atsb agency is working with a range of other international expert organizations to analyze available data relating to the flight of mh 370 and determine the best area to search. the key pieces of information being analyzed relate to early positional information from the aircraft and later calling of a satellite through its aircraft systems new information based on continuing anal sis of radar data about the aircraft movement between south china sea before radar contact was lost. this continuing analysis indicates the plane was traveling faster than previously estimated resulting in increased fuel usage and reducing the possible distance traveling south into the indian ocean. the international investigative team supporting the search continues their analysis of the data. this could result in further refinement of the potential flight path of mh 370. radar has been combined with information about the likely pe

it must be returned to western australia. and then the process of how that will be announced will be sorted through. >> a lot to watch for, even tonight and throughout the weekend. a lot more developments to get to in this hour. coming up next, we want to dig deeper where the new and old search areas could both contain wreckage of an aircraft. also, the sonar pingers. we'll show you what they sound like and have a then administration of how they work. we'll be right back. hey there, i just got my bill, and i see that it includes my fico® credit score. yup, you get it free each month to help you avoid surprises with your credit. good. i hate surprises. surprise! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and see your fico® credit score. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster t

we begin with the latest from western australia with the breaking news from paula newton that joins us now. this information could be a game changer. why are they shifting the search area? >> reporter: it is definitely a game changer. the reason is that when they say they refined their radar analysis, they determined that plane was likely flying faster, which means it ran out of fuel, which means it's in a completely different location than they thought. still shifting much more to the north and east. what does that mean? it does make the search much easier, in the sense it moves it closer to shore. we've been told about the conditions out there, they're horrific on certain days. but it's hard to determine the credibility of what's come before, all of that evidence from satellites, is it debris, is it garbage, what was it? they continue to say, and i'm sure we'll hear more about this in the press conference, that they need to refine their search area further. still, anderson, they are calling this a very, very credible lead. >> here's what i don't understand, but a, you mentioned the s

it's sunday morning in western australia.e taken off to scan for anything plane wreckage related to those indian ocean search areas. two planes and eight ships will be involved in the search on sunday. the only thing pulled from the water were some objects found by the chinese navy. we are still waiting to hear if they are linked to the missing malaysia airlines flight. stay with cnn throughout the evening. we will break into program if we have any new information for you. >>> secretary of state john kerry and russian form minister will meet sunday in paris. russia has no intention or interest to cross the border of ukraine. officials tell cnn that russia has 40,000 troops along the border with ukraine. >>> it has been a week since a landsli landslide wiped out two rural washington state towns. the confirmed death toll is now 18. they have lowered the number missing from 90 to 30. and today people stopped what they were doing for a moment of silence. crews are scouring through chest-high sludge and debris. >>> an earthquake s

it must be returned to western australia. and then the process of how that will be announced will be sorted through. >> a lot to watch for no doubt even tonight and throughout the weekend. we've got a lot more developments to get to in this hour. follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. #ac360. >>> i want to dig deeper on whether the old and new search areas could both contain some sort of wreckage of an aircraft. also those sonar pingers that will lead the investigators to the flight's data recorder will actually sound like. we have a demonstration how they work, what they sound like when they hit the water. we'll be right back. hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life

this is australia's largest naval base on their western coast. the reason we're here is because we're monitoring the movements here of ocean shield. you see it. you can't miss it, really, it's bright red, docked here at the naval base. it arrived here over the weekend. crews have been very busy here. they've been outfitting this ship with u.s. navy technology that we hope is going to really help in this search. there is the tpl, that towed pinger locator. it's basically a giant underwater microphone. you tow it behind the ship and it listens for the fading ping from the cockpit voice recorder and inflight data reporter. this is critical in the next few days because we know about a week left. that's how much battery life there is before those pings stop. when the pings stop, there is another piece of technology in the ocean field called the bluefin 21. basically, it's an underwater drone. this thing can go down under water and scan the bottom of the ocean. it can map out if there is any debris. great technology, but here is the reason. here is the

eight planes are scouring a remote area 1500 miles off the coast of western australia, after china released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone. some are concerned it may be too large to have come from the plane. the u.s. navy's p3 poseidon will join the search after a day off. a tropical cyclone threatens to hamper elements today. andrew thomas has this report from perth. >> some revelations that a chinese satellite had an image of an object roughly 22 metres in length, a sizeable object. that was to the sweat of of where an australian object had spotted the object. this is in the opposite direction, which may explain why the spotter planes have not seen anything with the naked eye. the planes will head to the new expanded area, trying to spot objects. also, the civilians planes with spotters, they thought they spotted a number of small objects. they couldn't be sure of what they were. they redirected a military plane. when it got to what it thought was the area, all it could see was seaweed. tony abbott said combined the new developments are significant. t

. >> reporter: they could be anywhere from western australia to deep into the indian ocean. >> u.s. china, france, among others to provide satellite detail. >> reporter: the p-was added to the search asthma haitian investigators who say the flight's disappearance is a deliberate act has refused intelligence assistance in the focus o on the pilots. >> my understand ising is that malaysia is not cooperating at all. >> reporter: the flight's black boxes if ever recovered, would yield few clues. if this is a six-or seven hour event we've lost all of the good stuff. >> reporter: joining the search of the plane three investigators from san francisco who helped find their country's own missing jet a number of years ago at the bottom of the atlantic ocean. lisa stark, al jazeera, washington. >> meanwhile the loved ones on board flight 370 say they have a lot of questions. they believe they are still alive and are not giving up hope. >> we believe he's alive. in our hearts we believe he's alive. god is in control. with all the twists and turns that have happened through the week it's been--i

will ripley, cnn, off the coast of western australia. ashleigh? >> that's great, will.thank you for that. he's got a long journey ahead. he'll continue to file reports from within an area in the indian ocean that is -- there's no other way to put it. it's massive. the australian prime minister was in perth today, declaring if this mystery is solvable, we will solve it. the big unknowns are when and how. and that's where i turn to my experts, david soucie and michael kay, back with me along with ocean explorer and president of mad dog expediti s expeditions, christine dennison. christine, you saw will heading out in the dark, the tow pinger locater, the piece de resistance. it's one day from the moment it arrives within the vicinity until effectively the batteries wear out, which is really distressing, to say the least. but honestly speaking, all of this garbage that we have been looking at over the weekend, are you surprised there isn't more garbage that we have been seeing, and are you not surprised that perhaps we haven't been able to locate any piece of this plane at

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they were spotted by satellite about 1,500 miles from western australia. aircraft have been sent for a closer look. malaysia's prime minister has tweeted that his government is now awaiting confirmation from australia. with that in mind, sara is live in kuala lumpur this hour to tell us more about the malaysian government's response to what could be a breakthrough in all of this. >> i think the response is extremely cautious, john. that is because, as you know, all of the different roller coasters, emotions that have been coming out of these families because information has been coming in and it's disputed sometimes hours or a day later, and it's just been very difficult for them. i think the government has sensed that and they're being very cautious. however they did have a conversation. we know the prime minister talked to the prime minister of australia, tony abbott when this all happened, before the press conference, to alert the malaysian authorities that these two objects in particular had been found, one some 24 meters long. and so that was the infor

. >> this is happening on the grounds of a primary school or elementary school in western australia. two young females actually fighting each other. but pay close attention to all of the people standing there watching. according to police they say that these were both adults and students as young as 10 years old watching this happen, not stepping in to do anything and what's even worse some of them were inciting the violence, egging these fighters on. >> i don't understand why people don't realize when you film a fight like this and you are an adult, you are now implicated in this. you can get in trouble yourself. >> it doesn't stop happening people keep doing it. >> you're exactly right, one person watching the fight jumps in and throws a kick to one of these young girls' heads. police say this is an actual organized fight club not just some after school fight that ended up happening. in fact, once they saw this footage, they started identifying a lot of these students as students from the nearby high school and now three teenagers, three teen girls, have been charged, two of them w

. >> reporter: well, another day of frustration here in perth in western australia where there's been a search 1,400 miles off this coastline but, again, it has come up with nothing. five planes went out today from australia, from the united states, and five came back having seen no debris and having seen no signs of anything unusual. the australian flight crew said actually visibility was quite good, they could see for about six miles, unlike yesterday the when visibility was very poor, indeed. but they reported strong winds and they weren't actually able to stay at the site as long as they wanted. the crew of the u.s. navy surveillance plane came back again reporting that they had seen nothing. they fly over the site for about three hours, it's a bit more of a sophisticated plane, they can fly at 5,000 feet and then go down to 1,000 feet if they spot anything but, again, they came back with nothing. tonight here it is nighttime, the search has been suspended but a norwegian cargo vessel is actually out on the seas using search lights to try and spot any debris and today the crew of

. >>> the weather off the coast of western australia, there's a cyclone and also some weather to report in the united states, a nor'easter is brewing here as well. >> absolutely guys. we'll give you a unique perspective of what's happening across australia, a google earth perspecti perspective. the storm front pushing through the storm zone. this is tropical cyclone gillian sitting off the northwest of australia and we're getting a lot of rain moving in towards perth. this storm system will ride parallel to the coastline, move farther south towards perth and we think remain offshore but important to note here as we're getting the latest information as transitioning into this storm getting into the numbers coming in but it's equivalent to a category two hurricane at this hour as it rides to the south. i wanted to pont this out because if operations resume this storm system will be in the direct flight path of folks getting out of perth heading towards the search zone. so we have a tropical cyclone that will be dieing that will be in the path of some of the officials coming out of perth g

, japan, south korea, australia, new zealand and the united states. >>> we are now hearing from one of the pilots who returned moments ago from searching for mh-370 over the western coast of australia, in perth, australia. let's listen in to what he has to say. >> if you do find something of significance, what will you do? do you go back? >> absolutely. yeah. okay. the process we go through is everybody on board the aircraft will hear the mark, mark, mark call up from the flight section and it will drop a flare which emits smoke importafor 45 minut. at same time, we use the aircraft system that will drop a gps point. we attempt to maintain visual contact with that object that was being seen and reposition the aircraft to get photographs of it. once we got photographs of the object, we send them off for analysis. if there is a vessel in the area, we vector them on to retain the object and analyze it from there. that is the basic process. >> have you gone through so long now, is there a time constraint or concern about the chances for finding anything? >> my chances of finding anything, that is over the rescue coordination. my job is to optimize our platform. to ge

but investigators say searchers will intently focus in the area off western australia. their hunt for this missing aircraft is a search area of at least 1,200 miles. nine days and counting. and still, no physical sign of malaysian air flight 370. but this weekend, confirmation from the malaysian government that this mysterious disappearance was almost certainly no accident. >> these movements are consistent with deliberate action. >> reporter: the prime minister confirming the report by abc news, that communications gear was deliberately shut down. now, we have learned from a source close to the investigation, that whoever was controlling the plane, preprogrammed that sharp left turn right off of the flight path. convincing investigators that someone was in control of the jetliner. either a rogue pilot or a hijacker. >> someone taking command of this airplane or already having command and going rogue. and the intent is obviously lethal. >> reporter: radar confirming that the plane did fly back over the country. but then, what? hourly satellite pings from the plane, whic

it's morning there off the coast of western australia.hat is the weather like at the search area right now? early this morning when we were on the air they were talking about low visibility, moderate conditions. what's it like now? >> reporter: the low visibility where kyung lah that little thunderstorm complex right there. 1500 miles from that area to the search area and the weather couldn't be better. what was wrong with yesterday? low ceilings, the planes couldn't fly high, rain, low visibility. and anderson, white caps. what's the worst possible thing in an ocean when you're looking for a white airplane? white caps. they couldn't literally see anything. they couldn't distinguish an airplane from the white cap. it was just too much what looked like debris in the water. today absolutely different. there is absolutely big giant blue h right over the surface area. they will have blue skies, they will have sunshine, they will have good definition. the white caps will be down. the waves won't be blowing off the top. we'll have good searchin

says it's most likely the search will be concentrated on the southern route with the focus off western australia o'. because the jet could have flown for an hour. there's at least a 1,200 mile search area. >> a couple of australian aircraft flew over the area. their fuel range is limited. naval resources will be necessary. now it appears this was no accident. with equipment shut down and several turns. >> this movement is consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. >> reporter: here's why. take off at 12:41. and tonight we learned whoever was at the controls programmed a left turn. moments later a data system shut down. then that program turned. back over malaysia. the 777 last seen at 2:17 p.m. but unbeknownst to the person at the controls the jet was signaling a satellite every hour. not precise. giving us those two corridors. the southern one uncovered by radar, all suggesting a hijacking. or a rogue pilot. >> someone taking command or already having command and i'm afraid the intent is lethal. >> if it is one of the pilots. what happened to the other? inside the cockpit a cras