talk about this new data, that they have come and the conclusion they have had to reach from it. they are connected with what we are hearing here from the air force base. these objects are being spotted, right, andrew? absolutely. at the moment, the prime minister is talking about inmarsat. it does seem to be linked. everybody is now. we have been talking about how d desperate the search and rescue mission has been. we have chinese air force planes sitting on an air force base here. it is all working in the same direction. it is three miles deep, this part of the ocean around there. there are big currents, big tides, big seas. this is a very rough, rough stretch of water and so, so remote. there are vessels. the vessels are going to be absolutely critical. richard was talking about the success of the australian navy vessel. that is there.
good morning. i m ali velshi joining us live from new york. let s start with the fast and furious wildfires wrecking land and property in texas. they ve killed four people and destroyed more than 700 homes in the past few days. the biggest fire is just outside austin. firefighters have been struggling to contain it. let s go right to cnn s chris welch. what s the latest? reporter: well, you just mentioned four death so is far at this point associated with these fires. two of those came from here in bass rtrop county. we assume they occurred yesterday. we don t know for sure because officials aren t providing more details. what we do know is this morning search crews will finally be going in for the first time over the past three days, look for anymore fatalities, look for any bodies. they hope obviously that they don t find anymore, but these fires have been very massive. we re talking these fires are 30% contained. that honestly is a big step from what we ve seen in the la