it s also completely socked in on this other side of the road. i mean, look. barely touching the bottom there. reporter: state officials say some desert regions, like palm springs, could double their yearly amount of water in just one day from hilary. overnight officials in ventura county searched by helicopter and on the ground for a couple of people believed to be trapped by flood waters from the santa clara river. two people eventually walked out of the flood area assisted by crews. urging everyone to stay out of river bottoms and canals. and this was the scene sunday in wr wrightwood. carrying large logs, rocks, muddy debris. exactly the type of thing the governor wants people to be on
there. state officials say some desert regions like palm springs could double their yearly amount of water in just one day from hilary. overnight officials in ventura county searched by helicopter and on the ground for a couple of people believed to be trapped by flood waters from the santa clara river. two people eventually walked out of the flooded area assisted by crews. officials urging everyone to stay out of river bottoms and canals. this was the scene sunday in brightwood. 77 miles northeast of los angeles. huge gushes of water forcing their way through a wash ca carrying large rocks, logs, muddy debris. take seriously debris flows and floods, flash floods, lightning, possibility of tornadoes. reporter: we were out here all day yesterday while the
to have gone down. the sadness onboard, to see those images is going to be matched again if that occurs in this case. it looks like it actually sank upright. michael mccarthy was on the team that found the sydney after more than 25 years of searching. he sees eerie similarities in the search for flight 370. you have an enormous area where it could be or may not be. you have a similar depth of water. you have similar emotions. reporter: but the search today has the advantage of technology. if satellite images and search planes can find debris from the plane in time, the flight data recorder should be sending out a signal. but the search for hmas sydney shows that even without that signal, wrecks can still be found using sonar scans. it just takes time. mccarthy describes the process. that then just mows the lawn back and forward until you finally find the signal, which tells you there we have our
the wreckage. here are the pictures. we ll talk live with someone who actually helped with that investigation about what happens once debris is found, whenever that might be. plus, take a look at how rough these waters are, where crews are searching. cnn rides the waves here in the indian ocean.
the world where they re searching. before we get to that, you brought me some props. show me. yeah, i brought you a few things from the five subtropical gyres. we saw in 2009 right through the search area from perth, australia. and you find the same kind of debris. there s lots of big stuff from the fishing industry. like fishing buoys. you can see the orange, yellow and black buoys. you don t know what these things are until you get in the water and pick them out and find they re fishing gear. this is a truck tire from the japanese tsunami. a year and a half after that tsunami, we sailed from tokyo back to hawaii and found this debris. so when you re out there, because i haven t been to this part of the southern indn ocean. when you re out there and you re out on a boat, are you seeing this junk surrounding the boat, or do you have to go to the gyres to see this stuff? well, they re kind of few and far between, though. the buoys and the debris.