For Malaysia Airline flight 370 flight 370. A fourth week begins for one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time. A new search area is focused in the indian ocean. It is 1,000 kilometers from the original search area. In fact, take a look at this image. It was captured by a new Zealand Military plane on friday. Aired on Chinese Television. Shows an unidentified object that the ship will attempt to locate and take aboard. Meantime, the Chinese Official News Agency says the aircraft spotted three, quote, suspicious objects in the indian ocean. The acting minister made a comment of hope. He made that statement after meeting with families of passengers. I understand the appeal and peace for the family and hoping against hope, no matter how remote, of course, we are praying and we are going to continue our search for the possible survivors. But what they want is a commitment on our part to continue the search and that i have given not only on behalf on the malaysian government, but so
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debris to create a single point out there, you then have to expand the field enormously over this amount of time over more than 20 days, to figure where it came from. because the drift patterns could be very complicated. frankly, i don t know how you put together an algorythm here. you can try. to actually lead you to the bulk of the plane is a tall, tall order. let s bring in our meteorologist karen macginnis now. you said there are good conditions for the weekend, but the window is closing here? yes, errol, we were hopeful this weather would cooperate for the aviators and those on the open waters. yes, we have seen that weather
visibility is a problem. here is that disturbance and some of that moisture that is going to filter in across the southern half and the western half of the search area, which is equivalent to the size of the country of poland. if you can imagine, they take off from here and search area and go back to refuel. it is quite the operation and if they have those waves that are kicking up, reduced visibility and wind that kicks up, errol, it is just more time that they have to spend looking for something. back to you. all right. karen, thanks very much. this search for the missing malaysian airlines has brought together several countries that are typically at odds with one another. they are working together now, but once the search is over, so will be the cooperation. jim clancy looks at the regional politics. reporter: the search for