early morning hours there in australia. 8:00 a.m. in perth. are search teams gearing up for another full day at sea? what kind of resources are we looking at? >> reporter: i think i'm hearing it right now. i'm about 500 yards i'm told from where these planes are taking off. we can hear some turboprops starting up. these are the p-3 orions. one is scheduled to take off right now. they will be leaving from this air base and heading four hours away to that remote area. at daybreak, there was one that took off and then those two civilian long-range planes. there will be more today, a total of six planes in all heading to that remote area four hours away. >> australian officials saying they're going to focus more