apart into the tiny pieces. searchers go out again tomorrow and the pentagon said the cost of the search and rescue so far is $2.5 million. we will talk more about the cost coming up the united states navy is reporting no trace of the missing jetliner. a p-8a equipped with the most sophi sophi sophist sophistocated technology but it has found nothing. michael fortune is here who is a retired pilot. we are loosing opportunities to hone in as the time goes by. we sure it. it is disturbing they haven t been able to find anything today. one of the problems the
that part of the world. five other merchant ships volunteered to help search as well. australian warship is on the way, expected to make the scene over the weekend. the new search area defined because of this supposed finding, it s about a four-hour flight from perth, australia, to the area they want to be searching. planes are currently scouring that. including according to the australian maritime safety authority a p-8a pasiden from the u.s. navy which is a fancy plane that can do that. it flies between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, can dip as low as 1,000 feet for visual inspections. it can stay aloft for up to nine hours when the thing you want to look at takes you four hours to get there. the navy calls it the most advanced long-range anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare aircraft in the world. there haven t been any reports of any meaningful sightings from any of the surveilling aircraft or any of the ships so far, but they are continuing to look. as the head of the emergency
defense minister said these images give him hope. must stress that these sightings, while credible, are still to be confirmed. what i am comfortable with saying is i think they re a credible lead, and that credible lead requires us to verify what was unprecedented about this announcement, it was australia s prime minister tony abbott who made the announcement, and it added weight to the satellite evidence by announcing the discovery to parliament early this morning. i would like to inform the house that new and credible information has come to light in relation to the search for malaysia airlines flight mh-370 in the southern indian ocean. now, a specialized p-8a u.s. naval plane spent the night searching the area where these images were taken, but it had to land to refuel. the crew did not report finding