result of the thunderstorm. the man had 20,000 hours of total time. this is an experienced guy. the captain and even the co-pilot is able to they were handling an airplane probably in a stressful turbulent situation, but something went wrong. i feel that something in my gut says that beyond that they were dealing with something else. and you don t know what that is? i hate to go to comparisons to 447 at this time. because it s way too preliminary in the investigation. here s another point that we know. the we know the java sea is a major shipping area and relatively shallow. what we don t know and it s interesting to me is if anyone on nearby ships spotted a plane going down. we have not heard any reports, david, of ships in the area other planes fishermen even we ve heard nothing. what do you make of that? it s again when you re looking at a map it seems like a fairly small body of water. but when you re out there, it s huge and the horizon is often
cons. the pros you have some civilian ships out there that could spot this or could join the search. the cons in search for wreckage there might be so much debris there that there might be a lot of false positive, a lot of false items identified. so help us understand what this search area looks like. reporter: well, certainly the way that this is going to work given it is a heavily traveled shipping area and these are shallow waters, the visual search will certainly by air will happen at first light as well as ships. they will be looking when the sun comes up visually on the surface for debris. using side scan sonar. what ships are doing right now, what the larger ships can do and will do is they will stop for the evening and turn on their own big search lights. and those search lights will scan the water. perhaps some and we don t know what s happening on those ships but presumably if they have large search lights there will
so that is a plus in terms you wouldn t have a lot of ships. it is a location of one of these gyres where things collect. so there is a lot of debris that may be in the area even though there are not a lot of ships in the area. which brings us back to this point. it s not a big shipping area. this is a vast area. look, give you perspective, the royal australian forces who are searching this marine services, they basically have said this is the most remote part of the world that you can get to. this is it. it is bold. it s big. it s deep. and it s frankly in the middle of nowhere. right. and also, remember, just to add to why this is a possibility at this point. explain to us that even if this debris were related to flight 370, this doesn t even mark where it struck the water. and that s where they need to find, right? that s the most important part. certainly that s the best chance of finding the black box, right?
overnight. so now they re being sorted here at a shipping area just outside of atlanta. these are going to be going to areas north of atlanta. so you see this point, it s all going to go into the truck and then it comes off the truck right to your house. and you know what? i ve been looking at hundreds of packages going past me this morning, not one of them is for me. it s not too late. maybe your family knew you were doing this so they re going through u.p.s. so they don t ruin the surprise for you. on the websites, a lot of them say still time, there s still time to have it get there by christmas. but do you know how likely it is they will arrive on time? well, everyone is saying if you want to make sure they get there but christmas, you want them being shipped by ground by friday of this week. after that, you may have to rely on the airborne services, those are a lot more expensive.
oil prices for the simple fact that we re losing oil and that area is such a major part of shipping area. the commerce that comes up through the mouth of the river. i don t know what the effect is going to be. you know, we don t know but our hopes and prayers is out to everybody down there in those coastal parishes. and it s going to go all the way up. and between the storms, and losing a coastline, it s difficult. brian todd is there, we ll be going there to get a life report. a lot more on this story. our best wishes to the people on the coast. this is a real disaster unfolding right now. as i said, we re standing by to hear from charlie crist, the governor of florida. he s going to announce whether or not he s dropping out of the gop primary. kevin, any reason to believe that we might be surprised that he s not going to drop out of