forum with former governor jeb bush. i thought she was giving respect to the woman saying, ooh, i ve been asked this question many times but never quite that way. law of averages. we re going to take a short beak here on news day. the flight 370 search is already challenging. add to that rough water conditions and the weather. we ll look at weather variables and how they are affecting the search. n full. oh, well in that case, back to vacation mode. boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants. voice-enabled bill pay. just a tap away on the geico app. huh, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. yup, everybody knows that. well, did you know that some owls aren t that wise. don t forget about i m having brunch with meagan tomorrow. who? seriously, you met her like three times. who?
you ve been through scenarios like this, at what point do you think it turns into a cold case? do you feel confident we re going to get an answer at all? that s always the hard part, when to suspend the search to tell the families you ve done your best and have to give up. i sense a big will here to continue on. they really have to exhaust all possibilities. a normal search would go maybe three weeks and if nothing new came up, they d tell them we re really sorry, there s nothing more they can do. i think they re going to go for much morning than the three weeks we ve seen already. with this new information overnight and this morning, that s certainly putting fuel in their tank. thank you to both of you. always a pleasure to have you on our air. up next, the weather, ocean currents such a big factor in the search for flight 370.
search for fly 370, pilots spotted floating objects in the south indian ocean. now, it is not clear, not clear at this point whether the debris is from the missing jetliner. joining me to talk about this development, and it could be a big one, is cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the army intelligence center, major john spider. great to have you here. australian planes flying over the search area spotted two pieces of debris, someone circular, one rectangular. you can see the area they ve been taking over perth over that small area they ve been focused on and the news that the ship the success, could arriving there within a few hours. the fact that they have some shape and form to them, very significant.
ideally around about 500 feet for the visual search. however, if required we will go down to 200 feet. weather conditions out here change in a split second. one moment almost zero visibility. the next, the fog vanishes and it s clear for miles. either way ocean as far as the eye can see. hopefully today will be the day that we find something. they use high tech radar and special cameras to search the ocean s surface, but it comes down to something very low tech, simply looking out the window that, new zealand s squadron relies on the most. we usually do about half an hour at the time. it s quite fatiguing on the eyes and the body and we change over regularly. i even take a turn looking for signing for anything unusual, scanning the water, afraid to blink thinking i might miss that one clue and then the waves start playing tricks on
sightings in one day, shows there are more planes out there. there s a big black storm coming our way. the weather, we re getting reports, sounds patchy but the reports we re getting back is it s bad visibility, bad and it s going to get worse. so now, i mean, time is of the essence. we couldn t emphasize that enough. andrew is going to be here. we re going to need him. thanks so much. we ll be tracking all the developments here. there s a lot to work through here in perth, australia, the heart of the search here. we have important developments today. we want to break it down with our panel our experts, mary schiavo and mary, i want to