identify or otherwise the missing malaysian aircraft. >> commander of the joint forces new england defense force, thanks very much. we'll stay in close touch with you. hopefully in the next few hours we'll learn whether or not any of those pieces of debris are in fact from the airliner. let's get some reaction now. van gurley is joining us, former naval oceanographer. what is your opinion about this new search zone? >> well, it's intriguing that the shift happened to quickly. one of the things that we'd be interested in the type of analysis we've done at metron is to look at the new compared to the old area. you don't want to get you caught running in the same direction. you don't want to get into a game of playing little kids' soccer. i'm sure that's not happening but you want to keep some folks looking at the places where you haven't seen something yet but there's still a chance you might