efforts are expanding now for three missing sail. american and japanese ships and planes are relntlessly hunting for these missing three. eight people have been rescued. they were all onboard a trance port plane carrying 11 crew and passengers when it crashed into the philippine sea. what do you know about this search? >> reporter: well, the search remains ongoing. u.s. and japanese forces in the air and on water out there in the philippine sea on this thanksgiving holiday. u.s. aircrews, u.s. ship crews looking earnestly for any sign of wreckage, trying to recover the other three who are missing. what the navy tells us the three missing are now officially listed as duty status, whereabouts unknown. they will try to recover