back and tackle it again if there s some piece of evidence that indicates that the pilot was involved. i want you guys to hold on for a moment because commander william marks is joining us on the phone right now. he s aboard the uss blue ridge command ship. thank you very much for joining us. let s talk about the news. what is the very latest you re hearing from the u.s. search operation that is about to resume in perth, australia? the latest news is that we are moving another p-8 poseidon from its operating base in okinawa, japan, down to perth, australia. that will give us a continuous everyday flight coverage out of perth with both our two p-8s, which are the latest and best technology we have for searching. so that should be there later on today, and we have a flight
with the best range on that is the p-8 and that s what we re using. commander william marks aboard the uss blue ridge command ship. thanks to you and to all the men and women of the united states marine corps for what you guys are doing out there to locate this plane. william marks joining us. let s talk a little bit what we heard and mark weiss, you re a 777 pilot, so you know this plane. you would understand obviously the wreckage from this kind of plane. are you encouraged from what you just heard from the navy commander? because he himself acknowledges they haven t spotted anything yet in all these flights going over this area. like you said i m a pilot, not a wreckage expert. from what i ve seen and been dealing with some other accidents, this wreckage, this debris field seems to be the best option that we ve got so
the search area is here based on the last one of those reports. what would likely happen to the aircraft after that. and it has then been moved to account for water movement and weather. reporter: the malaysians hinting they may have additional clues. i can confirm that we have received some radar data, but we are not at liberty to release information from other countries. reporter: and what about that northern sector, those 11 countries in asia? well a search still goes on there, but no verified reports of any aircraft crash or landing. so as the days go on, at least u.s. officials continue to believe that the flight is somewhere in the indian ocean. wolf? barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you. i want to go to commander william marx, aboard the uss blue ridge command ship.
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soulmate is crazy. find your sleep number setting only at one of our 425 stores nationwide. you can afford a sleep number bed, you can t afford another mediocre night s sleep. know better sleep with sleep number. well, as we said at the top, the hunt for flight 370 covers millions of square miles in two directions, including a broad swath of south and central asia. commander marks is aboard the seventh fleet command ship and he joins us by phone. commander marks, the u.s. navy has made adjustments in how american assets are being used in the search. what can you tell us about where things are and where things go from here? our destroyer, the uss kid and helicopters has moved north, about as far north as you can get by the southern tip of burma there. essentially we have covered that entire area. we are pretty certain there is nothing there. and when you re looking at expanding into the rest of the indian ocean, and south, that is