well, these were the search planes as they returned from patrol late saturday in western australia. the report from all of them was the same again. they saw absolutely nothing. you know it is now dawn, sunday morning, in perth, australia. the headquarters of the search mission and cnn's michael holmes is stationed in that search area. with me, joe johns in kuala lumpur where the flight originated 37 days ago. michael, start with you. are planes again heading for the search areas yet? >> reporter: absolutely, don, as they have every day for now we're into week six. seems extraordinary. doesn't it? not a scrap of wreckage has been found in all that time. but more than a dozen planes are out and about today. they'll be out there searching from the skies and on the ocean. there are more than a dozen ships searching. two, of course nbc thin that ar where the pings were heard. the four pings the australian