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Wreckage. theyre going to know what happened probably in the next 48 hours but report they wont release that if there is anything they find that was significant in the aircraft itself that will probably do a quick snap shot to industry flying that equipment to let them know about it. but the final report wont come out until all is are dotted and ts are crossed. that could be up to a year. >> it would seem they might be able to glean quite a bit of information. do you think that is going to be on...

Customary srgs deploying a team to san francisco to investigate, to retrieve those two so-called black boxes, which we found out a few moments ago are actually orange boxes. the cockpit voice recorder should tell us a great deal about what that. san francisco general hospital right now. this is one hospital in the area. san francisco general hospital. telling us, that ten people there have been critically injured eight adults, two children. there are a number of hospitals in that area. but again...

This weeks remarkable discovery happened with the help of three unmanned submarines on their fourth deep sea expedition in search of flight 447. >> effectively what they did was they gave us a smaller haystack to look in. and there was a needle, and when we hit that zone in full stride, we were fortunate enough to find the aircraft. >> reporter: perhaps most harrowing investigators say theyve spotted the remains of several of the flights 228 victims. among those on board, two americans. french c...

Is safe and working in a safe manner, you should want to be able to document that all of the systems were functioning properly. it makes me think they have something to hide. >> reporter: now, 64% of all car makers install black boxes. by next year black boxes will have to be standardized so they record the same data at more frequent ip ter vales. and automakers say they need an extra year because of the state of the economy. >> if toyota is the home one to download the data, how do they know it...

Recall or shims put in under the second recall for sticking accelerator pedals, it raises the prospect that perhaps the problem behind unintended acceleration is a software or electronics problem. the national highway traffic safety administration is now looking at the so-called black boxes, which is the electronic data recorders, the control module recorders in these cars. the nitsa has received a reader that allows them to look at these black boxes, decipher whats coming out of them from toyot...

Is heing vig. according to toyota, they have about 100 or less complaints with the power steering. it feels like you have some loss of control with the steering. toyota saying right now they are not issuing a recall. they are looking at each of those complaints and investigating them thoroughly, but right now, no recall. toyota though did detail some company wide changes that it will be making. technologically, toy says that all future models, it will be putting in something called a brake overr...

A lot of coordination. were just now at the very beginning of perhaps finding the wreckage of flight 370. back to you. >> with that said, tom, thank you so much. michael goldfarb is here. first of all, do they only have this time before that acoustic signal will disappear and the submersible would have to make a visual contact, not the audio contact. >> people are excited about this, its the first corroboration both of satellite tracking and amazing amount of engineering boeing did to spot it tr...

Of course what he didnt say is a number of these false leads have come from the chinese authorities. now, the australian-led organization which is overseeing and coordinating the search seem to be taken somewhat by surprise. in a statement this evening, they said they are unable to verify the reports and theyve asked china for more information. craig? >> ian williams for us in perth, australia, ian, thank you. in the coming hours, investigators will try to confirm if indeed these signals are com...

Malaysians really put the australians in charge and said, youre going to handle this search. yet the chinese are releasing this information. theres got to be one unified voice im not sure why they felt compelled to release this information before it was verified. >> correct me if im wrong here, there are two of these so-called black boxes. youve got the flight data recorder, youve got the voice recorder. are those two -- are they kept together? >> there are combination boxes. typically theyre se...

Black boxes, which by the way, are not black, theyre orange, would be located, if in fact thats the spot where the plane went down. >> well, we have a lot of ifs this evening. if in fact this is the wreckage of 370, this narrows the area and allows investigators to go in and identify the black boxes. again, the satellite images provide important clues. theyve got to look at the last known contact between the vietnamese air traffic controllers and the crew. does this dove tail with that informati...