thunderstorms as the reason for climbing altitude. this is a look at the radar picture at the time the plane disappeared. rick reichmuth is joining us. rick, do we have any idea number one, obviously what role weather plays? that may be early, but give us a sense of what it was like over the java sea 12 hours ago. the first thing you want to do is rule weather out. and question not rule weather out in this one. there was a lot of weather going on. the point as to where the plane was flying over the java sea. this is the satellite image. you can see all the dark reds are heavier clouds. those are clouds that are higher up. and that s why he was saying he wanted to climb to a higher elevation. but that s what we have going on right here. it is rainy season across indonesia and malaysia. so they are used to that but you get these storms and you have to fly around them or delay your flight or something like that. clearly, there were storms in the area of the flight path at
thank you so much, elizabeth. that debris field is sinking further and could be moved by the current. could have moved dozens of miles from its original location. we don t know what the original location is at this point. right. when you have these large chunks by satellite, by the time they get there, they could, as you point out, be sunk to the ocean. we ll have michael kay coming up talking about what the search patterns are. we have new information about the final hour in that cockpit based on a new transcript on what was said back and forth to flight control. we ll read through about the altitude, climbing, and then a second part of this. here s the first part as the aircraft was radioing back. here mh-370 saying this is mh-370 please climb to altitude 250. going back and forth saying this is our flight we re climbing altitude 250. they continue to climb to 350 and on and on and on.