foreign agent would take them from him. greenwald has the documents and he has been releasing them. and greenwald said before the week is up i will release the grand finale when i will release the names on the list the government has been targeting. we are looking for a needle in the hay stack. we want the entire hay stack. while they have targeted people. their motto has been, ready for this, collect it all. if you look at greenwald s book, which has copies of the documents in there, you will scent top of the documents, nsa motto collect it all. they want everything about everybody and they want it available for them, stored in their computers permanently. it is announcing that our privacy has been violated in this way and that a government has been able to collect this private information is doesn t look very american. oh, good gosh, it s not american at all. it is profoundly violate the
providing for families. at this stage i don t the prime minister is very, very fixed on assisting malaysia, a very good friend of australia in dealing with the families of the crew and passengers on board this aircraft. we ll do what we can within reason. families are not convinced. i m going to hand over to vice chief of defense who, as you can see with the royal australian air force he s going to tell but some of those oochl if i can put analogy of what we ve got out there at the moment we re not searching for a needle in the hay stack. we re trying to define where the hay stack is. you are seeing a multi national effort going on. it s difficult to, in these weather conditions, be able to find small bits of debris that is washing around in the southern indian ocean at the
take off to do this search? no. pretty stormy down there. this is one of the most isolated parts of the world. old roaring 40s used to reported. stormy weather, visibility pretty poor. and there is a lot of cloud cover. chances of any of these planes actually finding these two pieces of debris are still pretty remote. like looking for a needle in the hay stack. this search could continue for days to come. and just to give reference to the american viewers watching this, it s about 1500 miles offshore from perth, which is like flying from washington, d.c. all the way out to denver and then doing a little circling looking around and then you have got to go back to your home base it is far out in the ocean that they are looking, isn t it? that causes enormous problems. it s 1500 miles off the coast of western australia. takes four hours to fly there and four hours to get back obviously. that means they only have two hours search time before they have to return to base to refuel agai
partially blind here. we have out of date information. the currents have moved the flotsam and jetsam to another location. there are no em nations we re picking up to identify where that would be. and this means it s really a needle in the hay stack. yeah, there s a lot of strikes against them. a lot of forces working against them. but they ve got to explore this lead as they do with every other one. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your voice in this conversation. we re going to continue to look at all of these tips and efforts that are going on. appreciate you. thank you. chris? sources in the u.s. side, i suggested, this is like trying to find a need until a hay stack. they said wouldn t that be nice? this is a tall task. that s why it is called a lead at this point. we ll take a break now. when we come back on new day , what is the big if? if the floating objects turn out to be the wreckage from 370, it
had the transponders not been turned off. i do believe in the heart of hearts that the company that got us this red rig in the first place probably has other pings from hours, 3:00, 4:00, 7:00. and they can tell which well, that am looking for the needle in the hay stack. what was the right ping? we don t want to get the wrong