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Sonar picture. these pieces of equipment have realtime cameras. high-resolution cameras that can do the same grid so youd be able to see exactly whats in the ocean floor. identify if its wreckage and then, of course, do a mission to be able to retrieve these data recorders. >> rosa, thank you very much. miles and rob, stick around. still ahead, a live report from australia where a search is on, about to resume, i should say, for the missing flight 370. plus an emotion. interview with the par...

Just a matter of a couple of days athena, what are you learning? >> there are only a few laboratories in the world that are capable of retrieving data from a black box thats been damaged. heres a look inside one of those laboratories. >> this is one of the more advanced labs in the world. and for that reason thats why we tend to help other countries. >> reporter: here at the national transportation safety board state of the art laboratory, a demonstration of what it takes to get vital informatio...

Families is that all of this is to identify debris. then the actual search begins to identify the plane and perhaps any of the voice data recorders that were on board. andrew stephens is live for us. it has been a similar scene these past 21 days. a bit of information and then new confirmation as these families wait. >> i cant even imagine. i walked the a commander last hour who said that theyre not disillusioned that all of a sudden theyre shifting. they are reinvigorated. so hopefully this wil...

Down off the coast of south america and that ended up out in the middle of the atlantic ocean there, the surface debris was spread out mainly on a trail of three miles, a very limited scope compared to anything were talking about here, and when they finally went down and did the side scan sonar and found the debris, it would have covered a few football fields, the actual thing youre looking for where the data recorders are and everything else. let me bring it out and thrust it out in the room. w...

Granted since this plane disappeared on march 8th. meantime, the former ceo of malaysia airways coming out as well and remembering captain shah, the senior pilot on this flight, as a man who always had questioned, even as a young cadet, he said it was obvious he had a love of aviation. and he, too, doesnt believe the accusations, the innuendo, the speculation if you will, about his role in the disappearance of flight 370. but everyone says the same thing. we need to find the data recorders. we n...

Say pingers, these are in the flight data records. this is what alerts people to the flight data recorders. >> its the sound. >> are they test before being put into the data recorders and boarded on the aircraft? >> theyre tested in that they have a machine that will test them to see if they ping. theres no way to check the load of the battery. >> really? david gallo, if the pingers have failed, or obviously limit a life span, whats then the best way to go about finding the black boxes? >> good ...

>> reporter: the question now, if debris is found, could it be linked to debris spotted by satellite on two previous dates? >> perhaps the 16th captured some of the debris, then the 18th. if they can find the debris and if they can match it to those satellite images, thats empirical data and its extremely important. those images could be invaluable. >> reporter: planes and ships from at least five countries racing to find out whats there, including two australian orions, a japanese gulf stream j...

Found ten objects, 26 feet long by 13 feet wide. their pictures, they come from yesterday. some officials in japan are reportedly saying they believe theres a high probability they could be linked to the missing jetliner. >> great developments. search planes had to pull back early from the search zone today because the weather conditions were just too brutal. a half dozen ships however are still out there looking. again they have the challenge of dealing with low visibility. theyre hoping to hav...

Some of the debris, then the 18th. if they can find the debris and if they can match it to those satellite images, thats empirical data and its extremely important. those images could be invaluable. >> reporter: planes and ships from at least five countries racing to find out whats there, including two australian orions, a japanese gulf stream jet, and and by sea four chinese ships. the united states dispatched an underwater vehicle which can search to be submerged objects at depths of more than...

Wrote "i am still hoping for a miracle. but hmm, good night, daddy." for the world its a mystery. but for @gorgeous, its a dad whos not there to tweet her back. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks so much for watching. anderson starts now. good evening, everyone. it is 8:00 p.m. ear in new york, 8:00 a.m. in kuala lumpur and perth, australia. as we speak the search for malaysian airlines flight 370 is on again a search for the plane and answers and the clues that only the wreckage and the bo...