interviews with the pilot and the co-pilot. they didn t say what those dwrae details were, but they have questioned more than 100 people in connection with this. cnn s andrew stevens is live in perth, australia. andrew, a lot of ships now headed to that area, it appears. reporter: that s right. it certainly sounds like there is, indeed. the focus gets ever sharper on this area, and it is all tying into this broader pattern that this does seem to be, obviously, the most important lead they have, but things do seem to be strengthening almost by the hour, certainly by the day. to have we had sightings by chinese aircraft into two objects of relatively big size in the search zone and several smaller objects located in a field roughly a few square miles around it. add that to the objects, smaller
pay and what they paid today. what their deductible used to be and what their deductible used to say and it is not affordable for me. it is getting less affordable. bill: march 31st, seven days from now. thank you, karl. we have breaking news. see you later in the week. karl rove. martha: we are waiting at the top of the hour to hear from the prime minister in malaysia with the very latest on these pieces of possible debris that have been found off the coast of australia. as soon as this gets underway, we ll take you there live. we know they re mobilizing the family to bring them to the area as well. it certainly sound like there could be something to all of these discoveries over the weekend. we want to follow that minute by minute. we ll take you there live at the top of the hour. we ll be right back.
that area is that type. it is very deep, very dark, very unexplored in some cases part of the ocean. as you point out, they are trailing the towed ping locator which you mentioned. this is the united states. naval officials say that vessel used to toe it would be most likely be a commercial vessel by the malaysians and our equipment used on it and it would be towed to the area and then what happens, sal? it is towed over the area where they think the wreckage is located. you have to remember we may locate this wreckage many, many miles further upstream, up current if you would than where the wreckage is actually located. so they will have to make an estimate on that. the p8 can put sonar buoys in the water to give us an indication how fast the currents are traveling that will allow them to do the math and turn around and try to get an at least a approximate location. remember we need to be close
two orange objects approximately one meter in length and one white-colored trunk were sighted by search aircraft but remain unidentified and have not been complicitly linked to mh-370. success detected two radar targets within the search area but could not locate the targets on further investigation of the area. earlier today, a chinese search plane reportedly sighted objects in the australian search area. these objects are not in the vicinity of those which were identified by the australian authorities last week. a few minutes ago, the prime minister received a call from the prime minister of australia, who informed him that an australian search aircraft had located two objects in the australian search area, one circular and one rectangular. hmas success is in the vicinity, and it is possible
to take pictures of the indian ocean, but it my take days before the satellites are repositioned, and the navy isnding equipment right into the search zone. we are sending the ping locator down to aid in locating the black box. basically, this is highly sensitive equipment that is used, it s towed behind at very slow speeds on a commercial vessel down to depths of about it can listen down to depths of about 20,000 feet, listening for the ping coming off the black box, which is going to be critical in helping out with the investigation. it s a difficult task. the indian ocean is a very large area, and we were trying to follow you know, we go to every lead that s out there in these identified search areas. we re dedicated to the mission and we ll keep going as long as we re needed out there. such a massive search, so many countries involved. word that are malaysia airlines flight 370 dropped as low as 12,000 feet before disappearing from radar. that s raising new questions for in