search area. the malaysian ship is expected to arrive in the search area on the third of april. the adb ocean shield fitted with a towed pinger locator and a bluefin 21 autonomous underwater vehicle is due to arrive in the search area on the third of april. in terms of sightings of potential objects, on saturday, five objects were retrieved by hmas success and the haisun. however it was found none of these objects were related to mh-370. on sunday, an australian p-3 orion made visual sighting of seven potential objects. the korean p-3 orion also made visuals of three potential objects. the chinese ship the haisun was tasked on monday to retrieve these potential objects. in my capacity as malaysian defense minister, i will leave tonight for the united states pacific command in hawaii. i will attend the asean defense
japanese coast guard g-5, one australian p-3 orion, one new zealand p-3 orion, one new zealand civilian aircraft, one american p-8 poseidon, one japanese p-3 orion and one korean p-3 orion. to date, 11 ships were also deployed to the search area, and there are each chinese ships, the hyko, the jinggok, the haishin, the donghaiju. three australian ships, the hmas success, the hmas and a merchant vessel, which is currently transiting in the
two orange objects approximately one meter in length and one white-colored trunk were sighted by search aircraft but remain unidentified and have not been complicitly linked to mh-370. success detected two radar targets within the search area but could not locate the targets on further investigation of the area. earlier today, a chinese search plane reportedly sighted objects in the australian search area. these objects are not in the vicinity of those which were identified by the australian authorities last week. a few minutes ago, the prime minister received a call from the prime minister of australia, who informed him that an australian search aircraft had located two objects in the australian search area, one circular and one rectangular. hmas success is in the vicinity, and it is possible
investigation, no change. that may not be true. we re just not hearing about it. that s actually a very interesting point, jim. now we re going to be waiting to see if the hmas success, an australian naval ship in the area, if it can get to that spot where it was spotted and wait for that information to get back to us. we re going to return to our search for flight 370 in a moment. we are also following another really big story here stateside. search crews in washington state are frantically trying to find more survivors this morning. over the weekend, look at your tv right now. huge mudslide, buried, almost an entire neighborhood, about an hour outside of seattle. crews so far have found eight bodies. they believe there are more than a dozen people still missing. cnn s george howell has the very latest. reporter: the devastation, of course, is overwhelming. officials call the search
plane picked up perhaps five objects visually, which is so important now and reporting it. what s critical now is that there is an australian warship in a vicinity within hours, we could know, we could have solved this riddle. we could know those objects are related. on the other hand, of course, they may be another false lead. we ve had so many. but it s all tying in to sort of a theme, if you like. we re seeing more planes in the air, more sightings on a more regular basis. obviously there is something down there. we have to caution also this part of the world collects so much rubbish anyway. until we actually get their eyes on, we won t know. they are taking it seriously, though. the reporter up in the video camera that was up in that plane came back and was reporting that they did drop flares in the general vicinity because obviously they need to note somewhere for the hmas success, the ship, to go to to try to