alive. i am not sure where they have hidden the plane. how the families can possibly try to cope with the sense of helplessness. the not knowing. also ahead, can the possible debris tell us what happened in the cockpit? down the road, was the plane on auto pilot? did it run out of fuel? we will explore those angles with special coverage.
quiet, but i m cautious lease pessimist pessimistic. someone took this flight for a reason. that means they would preserve it and take it someplace. if this debris is indeed part of that plane, then that dashes that wishful thinking to pieces. let s go live to kuala lumpur. malaysian officials are directing nearly all of the search teams to the possible debris site in the indian ocean. that s right, brooke. they are. that s because they really have a firm belief that this could well be the place where they can finally locate flight 370. this is a remote part of the ocean and what we have right now is all of the search and rescue operation being diverted to this part of the indian ocean.
are lucky enough to find the debris, they can confirm it s from the plane, how the heck do you find the plane? it s going to be difficult. for the most part, the currents are moving towards the east. you have the strong waves. and white caps from the ship. you can really only see about five or seven miles with the high waves. from the aircraft, the white caps they are going to obscure much of the debris. it s not going to be easy to find. i think it s going to be 100 miles to the east or northeast or so. that will be the direction that i think the waves and wind will carry it. it s going to be hard. you have to be within a few miles to see it. not going to be easy. the typography there over the mid-ocean ridge. 3,000 meters and 9,000 feet
if this is 60 feet, part of the fuselage would make it about 78 feet. all speculation because they won t know anything until they get up close. it could be part of a shipping container or a ship even though this is not an often traveled route. they are trying to find the debris first and foremost. so many questions. let s keep the conversation going with new york oceanographer arnold gordon and jennifer gray here in studio with me with the cnn weather center. we have a lot for you and just help me out. i appreciate you helping me out. we will get to current and ocean depth. first the obvious, the weather. it s about six hours away from sunrise in this part of the world. will the weather cooperate? so many moving parts. the weather was trouble yesterday. we had a front move through and visibility was low. clouds in the area and that was a problem yesterday. that has moved out. things are going to improve
using the high powered lights they have and as the search is continuing to figure out what the heck this is, let s go back to the families. we cannot forget the families who have just been told about this possible debris find. some of them not wanting to believe this is how the search could end. it s enough to make us all anxious again after a couple days of quiet, but i m cautiously pessimistic that it s not a piece of the plane. i keep hoping that somebody took this flight for a reason. they would have preserved it and tried to hide it someplace. tried to take it someplace. if this debris is indeed part of that plane, then that dashes that wishful thinking to pieces. after the families are wondering and waiting for confirmation on what this possible debris is, a development now that may lead to some answers about how or why