really about the investigation into who may have been involved or what may have been the motives. they are holding those cards very close to their chest. the only thing they are revealing is how this search is going and they are saying before we can go ahead with any kind of investigation, tell you people anything, we need some hard evidence. that s the flight data recorders. is this a link to those recorders? is this a link to unraveling the mystery of flight 370? well may be about to find out, carol. i know. i m keeping my fingers crossed by. i want to bring mary schiavo back in to talk about the debris, the debris that investigators think that s important. the reason they think it s important is because of the shape and color. that s right. the circular object is gray or green and rectangular object is orange. why is that important gray/green is the color of the inside of the aircraft. metal and other pieces are of a
australian ship that cannot just drive by these pieces of wreckage, or possible pieces of wreckage, but potentially pick them up. it has been a remarkable effort frustrating fort families as we watch them and unpress denltnd how international it has been. imagine the countries who have taken part and are taking part in close quarters. the u.s. and china with great tensions in the regions now, showing off some of their most advanced surveillance airplanes and ships, destroyers, et cetera. you have china and japan in the midst of their own territorial dispute off islands off the coast of china with ships and planes in close proximity there. we have seen those tensions play out and possibly delay this investigation as countries have been reluctant to share their capabilities, their radar data, which in some cases has been embarrassing. you had a plane flying across malaysian radar without being noticed. india refusing to allow chinese ships to search in its waters.
respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation. malaysia airlines has already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. for them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking. i know this news must be harder still. i urge the media to respect their privacy and allow them the space they need. at this very difficult time. a difficult time indeed for
presumably to give medical assistance. the counselors i have spoken to over the past few days have said, when the news does finally come, it will be almost too difficult to contemplate for people who have been hoping for the worst case scenario, hoping for a hijacking. now, as it appears from what we know, all hope is lost for these families and certainly this is agonizing in this hotel, which has been a real hellish experience, appears to be coming to an end. the grieving process appears to be stopping. it is very raw and very difficult for those that have spent all this time here. i want to go to jim sciutto who is standing by in washington, d.c. the investigation continues. the news for those just joining, malaysia s prime minister saying that according to latest analysis of the information but uk authorities and inmarsat, the
satellite company, they can say that the flight ended in the southern indian ocean, mh-370, in an area where there were not any areas to land, saying the plane ended up in the water. the investigation continues and critical to that investigation is finding first debris and then the aircraft itself and those black boxes. i think you have two investigations, the investigation as to why this happened and also that first step as to where the plane is. i think we can see today as the culmination of a long, difficult and often frustrating sometimes mismanaged investigation into that first question really. where did this plane end up? to be fair, investigators working with a lot of information, lost contact with the plane, the acars system, the transponder. they had to do some real detective work to get a sense of in which direction the plane flew and then we had those two massive arcs leading north and