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navy s p-3 orion will not be flying today and is undergoing maintenance. it would take days to get there if ordered. the search is now being focused 1500 miles off the coast of australia, sean, half way between australia and the antarctic. that is how far away it is. sean. all right, jennifer, great reporting, thank you for joining us. and more on the role they will play in the search efforts. chief meteorologist, our friend from weather.com. joe bastardi, joe, every time we get on an airplane aren t we told about the seats being flotation devices. wouldn t they be floating at this point? well, it has been a long time since this crash. remember there is a lot of variances in the weather conditions in the last ten or 12 days in the area where we expect the crash to be.
it is like being 45, 50 in the north atlantic you re going to get that type of thing. but we have had search and rescue operations in the north atlantic and north pacific. it is the variance of the weather, the back and forth of the weather that gets really tricky in there. all right, joe bastardi, thank you for joining us, with weather.com. and tim brown, and retired p-3 c mission. let s talk about the role that is played here, and apparently fairly pivotal and accurate. well, the satellite imagery is the australian s californvea possible, they said possible several times, including the prime minister. so what it means is the imagery shows there is possibly something there. but it is enough to send aircraft to do surveillance. not enough to make the case. they will probably have to
it s cold out there. thanks, dylan. be sure to keep up with all the wintry holiday weather anytime on weather.com. back to our developing story out of the geneva where a critical meeting to broker an iran nuclear deal has wrapped for now. secretary of state john kerry arriving in switzerland earlier today. he joined discusses with officials from five other world powers to put a deal together. this meeting has wrapped with these foreign ministers. what are you hearing in summary, if anything? an amazingly since the last time we spoke, the meeting wrapped and they ve gone back into a meeting again without iran. the five foreign ministers and catherine ashton have reconvened another meeting. oddly enough, the iranian foreign minister is in a meeting with the swiss morn minister. there s a flurry of activity going on. they will keep rushing in and
we will keep an eye on them because they will be firing up throughout the rest of the afternoon and through this evening. we ll be following this closely. thanks, dylan. to keep up on all the warnings and watches at anytime, depend on the experts at weather.com. in washington, lawmakers are drawing partisan lines once again over the health care law and president obama s proposed fix to allow some people to keep their current plan. the president said that he fumbled the rollout. it s time for a time-out, which i ve been calling for so, that we can go back to the drawing board and really talk about bipartisan solutions for health reform in the country. they can fix this. this is a fixable problem. once they fix it, people will see i have an opportunity to cover my family. i was in the emergency room just last week with my son who had an a asthma attack and took too many puffs on his puffer. i looked in the eyes of all the other mothers in the emergency room. these are mother wh