jim, the biggest problem is going to be that if the media stops covering this at some point, when perhaps search slows down, that the families are going to feel abandoned. already they feel that the media is giving them information more than actually the malaysian government. so that s going to be a real complication as part of that grieving process, if you will, they re going through. i heard an interview with the head of the air france flight 447 families a short time ago. and he mentioned that for him, he lost his daughter on the flight. he mentioned that for him he had two sort of periods of grief. when the plane was lost. then two years later in that case when the wreckage was found and some remains were found. he in his case, luckily, you could say, was able to bury remains of his daughter. that prevents a real debilitating prospect, doesn t it? two tragedies. that s right. you are talking about two tragedies. here if they never find the bodies, god forbid, even though
there are going to be more planes in the air today, jim, than yesterday. a total of ten in the air. and on sea, a very important distinction, ten ships expected to be in the sea. the reason that this is so important is the planes can spot all of this material. they can spot some of these objects. you were referencing those four orange pieces that were seen. but you have to verify it by having a ship go out there and pick it up. that s really the key here. and with more of them at sea, there is more hope that perhaps they can figure it out. get to these objects more quickly and verify them more quickly. another important thing that s happening here this morning, in just a few minutes time we are anticipating the arrival of australia s prime minister here to pearce air base and that he will be making comments this morning. we don t know what he s going to be talking about. the subject has not been made public. he will be arriving here in just a few minutes and then will be
there s been no claim of responsibility. at least no credible claim of responsibility since the plane disappeared? right. you know, and speaking to officials within within the intelligence community, they say generally you would think by now, if this was linked to terrorism, someone would come forward and take responsibility for it. however, the rule is there truly is no rule. so just because someone hasn t come forward doesn t nieecessary mean that terrorism should be or can be taken off the table. so we do know that it doesn t fit under generally what we would see. but, again, as that person said, the rule is no true rule to this one, jim. like so many things with this investigation, right? they have to keep their options open. thanks very much to rene marsh in washington. coming up, we re going to bring our expert panel back to talk about the growing challenges searchers face and how long this search could go on. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods first day of work.
on ducket. do you think that impacted the investigation as a whole? certainly. the victim was last seen less than 400 feet from her house. yet they never even searched her home. there were men living in the home with her mother who weren t related to her by marriage who she had complained about previously to a relative bothering her. so, yes, i definitely think that. now, steve, how about you? when you hear an argument like that, you ve never wavered in your belief that james duckett is guilty that duckett is guilty of this murder. why are you so convinced? well, the evidence, jim. and as far as exploring other evidence, it centered on duckett very quickly because of the evidence that was found at the crime scene. beginning with the tire tracks. the tire tracks led investigators to talk to duckett. and he denied ever having been down in the area where the body was dumped the night before. they asked further questions and they processed the car and found her fingerprints on the
but the question is, was it terrorism? well, today the chair of both the house and senate intelligence committee were asked just that. take a listen. well, so far there s been none. and there s speculation, but there s nothing. well, i have seen nothing yet that has come out of the investigation that would lead me to conclude that there was some anything other than a normal flight that something happened, something went wrong. well, you know, that being said, investigators will continue to focus on the pilots. even if there s no physical evidence such as a suicide notice. the reason for that is simply because they really don t have anything else to explain what happened on flight 370. so they continue, again, to look at both of the men who were in the cockpit. jim? that s the status of the investigation at this point three weeks later. just keeping the options open, right? i suppose one missing thing when it comes to terrorism is that