kaveh standards requiring cars to be more fuel efficient. so yes there are problems even within the democratic caucus. we re going to have to make progress on this. we don t want to wait until we reach a tipping point. it s tough. i covered the cap and trade vote that never even made it through both houses of congress when they were both democratic. i remember it well. congressman schiff thank you very much. we re coming up with more debris sightings as is volunteers join the search. we have cnn live there on reunion island. later, a scary new warning about the possibility of terrorist attacks using small unmanned drones. i ve smoked a lot
was this constant cycle. it was not just a few day, it was months of debris sightings and false reports. and you know false chasing of pings and all of that just made the trauma worse to such a degree that we are all kind of battered and broozuised and shaken and most of us have not come to the next step of closure yet. yeah i don t know how you cope. must be incredibly strong. sarah. thank you. thank you. well the disappearance of malaysia flight 370 is one of the greatest aviation mysteries ever. but in the comparison could not be more stark. crews have looked for any sign of the missing air asia flight days of uncertainty and anguish for family waiting on word of their loved ones and the wait seems to be over. parts of the missing plane were
are sarah beigic whose partner was on that plane mh 370 hoping that it would make it to land. when i heard news that they found bodies floating my heart just sunk. but at the same time at least they know you know, that the first couple of months after 370 went down. it was just constant cycle. it wasn t just a few days. it was months of debris sightings and false reports. and false chasing of pings. and all of that exacerbated the trauma to such a degree that i think we re all battered and bruised and shaken and most of us haven t even come to the next step of closure. we ll be covering the flight recovery efforts all morning long. all morning long they ve been
satellites and planes from half a dozen countries spotted hundreds of pieces of debris. that seemed promising, but the debris turned out to be fishing equipment and ocean junk. unfortunately, all the leads we got from the satellites turned out to be other things other than wreckage from the aircraft. reporter: now searchers are optimistic. still experts caution we re not there yet. that s a large area of ocean. it s going to take not only expertise, but it s going to take some luck as well. and one more thing, remember those pings the chinese detected over the weekend potentially from the plane s black box? are those another red herring like the debris sightings? well, teams are still searching that area, but it s clear the four signals picked up by the australians over the last few days are now the main focus. athena, thanks very much. let s bring in correspondent richard quest who s been covering this story for us.
bottom, more than 3 miles, this looks likes it may be around the 2 1/2 mile depth. but that, as you know, wolf, from all of your reporting, very forbidding depth. a difficult place to work. you want to be as close to your target as possible before you go down and start looking for it because it s going to be a long, slow process. yeah, we should be hearing fairly soon whether or not they found any more pings out there. tom foreman, thanks very much. the new narrower focus follows weeks of searching marred by missteps. cnn s athena jones is here with us, part of the story. so what s been going wrong? well, wolf, by all accounts there have been a lot of bits and starts in this investigation with missed clues and distractions. like those debris sightings we ve been hearing about for a couple of weeks now. those detours have cost investigators crucial time. it s the most extensive search ever for a missing commercial jetliner. we are trying to do everything in our powers to find wher