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Their theories. The big question, and i think, jeff, you said this, a reward would be pennies on the dollars. Exactly. Why isnt there a reward posted . A reward would be pennies on the dollar for what this search is costing. Thanks for joining us. Good evening. Its 11 00 on the east coast. 11 00 a. M. In malaysia. We begin with several pieces of information. Item one, the search zone is focusing on the southwest coast of australia. Item two, investigators tell us the path it took, the path caugh...

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The malaysian authorities have not been transparent. and that has hurt the investigati investigation. >> we have a lot more to talk about coming up. you can follow me at twitter @andersoncooper with any questions you have. next, well check out more with the search commander, commander marks. and later, what happens if the black boxes are recovered. you will be amazed how much information they can hold. that and more when we continue. you created light. you are loved. celebrated. but things have ...

For that to go 1500 feet down. does that sound like it is going to get a good resolution. it doesnt sound like that to me, that far off the bottom. >> well, they could. you know, it depends on how the operation is planned. they can find higher above the bottom and sacrifice a little bit of resolution. i just dont know what frequency they will be using and maybe commander marks will share that with us about the frequencies they will be using. they have a couple of different ones they can use to m...

Gone by now. >> and richard, too, to the point of commander marks, once they take the tpl out that is it. they will err on the side of caution. >> yes, i think that would be where i would divert slightly from yourself, david, with respect to that. because angus houston said there is no second chances. so i dont see the urgency, im not an expert in this, but from what i have heard from the experts i dont see the urgency to get the bluefin into the water searching other than obviously the resoluti...

And then taking a picture. and then you have to process all the information. and then remember just to turn the ship around takes hours and hours. so you know you could be towing the thing for a couple of miles behind you. you have to reel it in and get it on another reciprocal course. so this is by no means a fast process, a very slow process. >> commander marks, always good to have you one, we appreciate the work you and everybody else is doing. and our panel joining us, david souci and david ...

Search with the tpl for now. >> commander marks, good luck with the search, thank you so much. lets bring in tim taylor, sea operator, and david souci, analyst and author of the book "why planes crash" theyre here with me. and cnn analyst, miles obrien. tim, i want to start with you. the fifth ping is building confidence increasing the data map that could bring the searchers to the source. >> continue the pings, as long as you can get ping. the av work and ultimately rov work on this site, we ...

For the boatteries. so you search as long as you can? >> we talked to commander marks and he said he expected from the time they stop receiving the signals, the assumption that the battery is gone, they would continue to search for at least two more days after that just to be certain that theyve gotten, as mary said, all the juice out of the batteries that are available. >> i still dont get the proximity related to the ping pickup. the prime minister said within a few kilometers and now you tell...

A margin to last longer than 30 days, lets say the minimum is 30 days. right now, we really dont know. each of them depends on how long theyve been -- or how theyve been stored, how long theyve been on the air frame. at this point, youre still within a wento where you could detect things. >>, davi david, at some point, investigators have to decide that were no longer in a listening mode, were in a looking mode, and were going to have to rely on our eyes and our cameras to do the rest. when is th...

Commander, australias prime minister, tony abbott came out and said directly look, he is confident that what youve heard so from is from a black box that is from this plane. do you share that view? >> yeah, i do. for a couple of reasons. one is it was a -- we are detecting very continuous pings. and are coming through in a manner consistent with exactly what you would expect from a black box. weve ruled out that it was anything unnatural or anything from commercial shipping or anything like that...