former nasa analyst, great talk to you. thank you. thank you, shep. continuing coverage of the missing jet coming up. first, a fox report withed the lips, the first lady, michelle obama, met the chinese president in beijing today. mrs. obama is traveling with her mother and daughters. sasha and malia. aides they the first lady plans to avoid politics during the visit and focus on education and cultural issue. one of the planes that served as air force one is getting a fresh coat of paint in ft. worth. officials say once the 747 passes inspection the flight test the president can start using it between. go outside and start smiling. that s what one scientist is saying after a study reviews humans can identify more than a trillion different odors. that s a big jump from the old estimate of 10,000. go outside and start smelling. researchers at rockefeller university tested volunteers with smells like garlic, mint,
most inaccessible spot you can imagine on the face of the earth. if there s anything down there, we ll find it: that promise from the australian prime minister as teams search a remote section of the indian ocean, looking for what could about two pieces of debris from the jet. now two weeks after it went missing australian officials say more planes and ships are set to join in the search. the pilots who went out today, say they turned up nothing. it s certainly disappointing, and i ve got every confidence that we will find any object and everytime we launch we hold that hope. however, we re just going to keep going until we find it. here s another look at the two objects. one is about 79 feet long. the other about 16 feet. those officials say a u.s. satellite spotted the objects floating 600 miles .
discover. particularly with the black box and the time limit on the batteries for that. they really need to locate this debris as quickly as possible to have the best chance of finding anything out about this mystery. daniel, i know they ve been back over these satellite images over and over again. i wonder if there s anymore degree of certainty what they may be? is there still a high possibility this is wreckage from the plane? i spoke to some satellite experts yesterday, and i think that people who have looked very closely at the images say they are credible. the larger piece of debris is much larger than a shipping container, and i think that offer some hope this may be part of the fuselage of the plane, but at this stage they are very indistinct. the highest pixel ratio of those satellite ratios is 50 sent meters, so at that resolution we can t really see things like
know much about them, casey siegel is live with more. casey, you spoke to some of phillip wood s family members. to say this last two weeks has been difficult may just be an understatement. most of his closest family does live here in a suburb of dallas. his father has told journalists he believes his son is in fact still alive and they are certainly not giving up hope. phillip s brothers describe the 50-year-old ibm employee as a guy who had a zest for life and was excited about soon moving in with his girlfriend in call call kuala lumpur. actually in a recent e-mail said, every day is a gift, and that s really how he lived. he approached it. the wood family says they have been glued to television reports following every single twist and turn in this very
debris from the missing malaysia airlines flight. representatives for a british satellite company say as early as two days after that airline flight went missing, they had indications it may have crashed in the southern indian ocean. two days in. remember, search teams didn t begin focusing on the area until earlier this week when a satellite located those two pieces of what they say may be debris. analysts say this means officials have wasted critical time looking for the plane in other areas. we mentioned earlier that satellites spotted the possible debris on sunday and officials say by now it could have drifted or sunk to the bottom of the ocean. ken is the president of an aviation consulting firm and a former air force search and rescue pilot, not to mention a former nasa analyst. ken, nice to see you. good to see you, shep. ken, you said that electronic searching might be of a big help here. explain how that works. well, the plane can do an