miles northwest and heading towards the indian ocean. back to you, brooke. thank you so much. let s talk about this further with the host of quest means business. i know you ve been up around the clock trying to make sense of this. let s start with the conflicting information about whether the plane turns, whether it didn t. we ve got two new developments this morning. the first is this quite dramatic increase in the size of the search area. how big? well, it s 27,000 nautical miles, which roughly equates to four times the state of massachusetts. so you can imagine, four times the state. so you can imagine this is a seriously large search area