Dad, thank you for always being there with us. Please stay at our sides forever. And to all of japanese people and my little brother in japan [ speaking japanese ] never, never, never forget. This is my prayer. [ applause a and our cousin, paul, who would have been a grandfather for the first time this year. Paul would have done a great job with his granddaughter, danielle jean, and my uncle, too, john monihan, who our family hasnt been the same the past 13 years, but we carry on with his spirit. Thank you to all the First Responder who is sacrificed so much that day and continue to protect us and the u. S. Troops who protect our freedoms at home and overseas. God bless america. [ applause ] Tyler Victor Ugolyn michael a. Uliano jonathan j. Uman anil Shivhari Umarkar allen v. Upton diane marie urban John Damien Vaccacio Bradley Hodges vadas William Valcarcel Felix Antonio vale ivan vale Benito Valentin Santos Valentin jr. Carlton francis valvo ii Pendyala Vamsikrishna erica h. Van Acke
Conditions. And the planes pilot is speaking out with a newspaper objecting information his father may be responsible in the disappearance. He says, quote, i know my father better. Were getting more reports of objects spotted in the indian ocean. So far search crews have been unable to find any of the objects, certainly they have not been able to recover any wreckage from the plane. Lets bring in our cnn correspondent will ripley joining us from the base. Planes have been grounded on this day. Give us the breakdown, will, of the latest satellite reports starting with the newest one we just received from japan. Yeah. Those pictures as you mentioned were taken yesterday. Cnn has now confirmed that the largest of these objects is actually rectangular, about 26 feet by 13 feet, the other square objects ten of them in total, and then of course we had just hours before that report the thai satellite images, 300 objects still not really confirmed what these are. But japanese officials told th
Million square kilometers. Today they are focusing on 80. Why that particular area . Reporter its an area that they have looked over before. If you look at the latest map from the search coordinators, the area of interest is within that much bigger zone. Its about, its several hundred kilometers to the east of where the flights route indicated the plane may have gone. If the plane did come down looks as if the drift would have taken any debris towards the east. This is of particular interest. Its where both the chinese have spotted objects in the past few days which have not been relocated by surface vessels or other aircraft looking. Its been searched before. This is the area of greatest interest there. There were two search zones. Todays search is the bridge between those two plus over the search zones that have been looked at before. They are combing over the same sort of area. Thats a sharp focus on the search today and the search continues to ramp up. The australian Prime Minister
The new search zone for the missing airliner and this is a first. Chinese and australian aircraft spotted multiple objects. The state media reporting three suspicious objects seen by chinese were white, red, and orange. However, so far none of those objects, nor the ones taken up from the sea today, have been confirmed as having anything to do with the lost jet. We also know new this morning that searchers covered 97,000 square miles today. To give you perspective, thats the land area of oregon and theyre concentrating on a new zone, almost 700 miles northeast of where authorities last focussed their hunt. This shift was based on a new analysis of radar data. Australian Authorities Say todays search has wrapped up at least for the day. We know there are four ship theres right now. More ships due to arrive in a zone tomorrow. Meantime, as families of missing passengers demand proof of official claims that all lives were lost, a top official inspired some hope, telling relatives in kuala
I look and see specks. Experts look at these and say they are shiny. That could be significant. Adding to the intrigue, they were seen just 125 miles from the area where the french satellite spotted some 100 objects. Lots of pictures and possible clues here. The real question is this. Could the sightings be the same field moving quickly with currents in the rough indian ocean. Thats one question. Next is despite all the new leads and the task of getting to the objects is getting tougher. High risk and the way it is, very low probability of seeing anything out there at all. Because of that, forced to return early from the search zone because of these brutal conditions. Lets go straight to perth, australia. Here he is, will ripley up live for us. We know this Navy Lieutenant commander said aircrews who were out there and his words were the crews were beaten up by the rough conditions. How will it be in a couple of hours . Thats the Million Dollar question, brooke. We dont know. Thats how