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It seems relatively small area. do you agree with that? >> depends what you -- when you say 17 miles and you think about 17 miles at -- but then three miles deep. >> right. in the grand scheme of things it is a small area. its still a very large area in terms of the search pattern. >> yeah. someone -- i heard someone on the air yesterday, david, it may have been you, saying, okay, so maybe, you know, maybe within 17 miles of each other they have, you know, narrowed the search area down to a coup...

Sure. >> its a government that has been respected by the people and i think this crisis has brought about a kind of realization of the limits of the capacity of the malaysian government in handling this particular crisis. >> reporter: while the polling numbers track with attitudes in malaysias area, the intensely focused attention to the government sometimes uneven handling of the crisis is still a wake-up call for the countrys leaders who point out that none of this is easy. >> the search opera...

Those batteries of the black box pinger have completely expired. the question now being when exactly are they going to feel comfortable to make that assumption and deploy the underwater autonomous vehicle to find the physical wreckage, isha. >> 37 days into the search for flight 370. erin mclaughlin there in perth, thank you, erin. not much is known about the seabed in the southern indian ocean. its one of the most remote places in the world. in fact, its said we know more about the surface of...

>> reporter: weve been talking a lot about the high-tech devices that have been turned loose to listen for pings off the ocean floor. like the toad pinger locater and theres been word of the buoys being dropped out there. but any device listening in the deep ocean faces unique challenges because sound does very strange things traveling through all of that deep water. heres just one of the challenges out there. theres a layer about a half mile down in the water here that is a naturally occurring ...

Not only why are we not this or why someone did what they did, but why are we sitting here, trying to rush this investigation when we should have 90 days on the pinger and should have 90 days to do that. why are we here without the information of where the aircraft was located, what happened what information did we not have that we should have had. and mary has been a big proponent since 9/11 to get this done where we have a constant stream of data. why is it not happening, they have been gutted...

Potentially as deep as over 13,000 feet. and a lot of people keep bringing up the talk about silt. how much silt is down there? well, i wanted to take a closer look, and theyre talking about some places seeing silt as deep as about 100 feet. but notice, once you start talking about some of these green areas, youre talking about even into yellow, places that potentially have even over 1,000 feet of silt. >> wow. >> some of these areas in the green or yellow go up even over 3,000 feet of silt. so,...

Traffic controllers. search crews discover a possible new signal on the flights black boxes which could explain exactly what happened. that brings the number of sounds from the ocean to five. these new sounds were detected by sonar buoys. searchers still have to deal with the massively deep ocean and sometimes unstable ocean floor. cnns brian todd live in washington with that part of the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. the ocean depths are very intimidating. the titanic wa...

Locator, the plan so to use this underwater robotic locator called the blue fin 21, to locate wreckage on the sea floor. but searching such a large, deep ocean could take months unless they get a better idea of where to look, for what officials area resting place. clayton sandel, abc news, perth, australia. >> that torpedo-like submersible will go in the water in a few days to a week when theyre confident that the pingers are there or gone because the battery wore out, they said it will take abo...

Now theyve had five separate instances where they picked up sound from underneath the water. that has to be good. >> it is, it is very good. then they can nair vo the search area when they put the unmanned subs down with the side-scan sonar. even with the pings, it will take many days if theyre lucky and many weeks if theyre not, to locate it under the ocean. the more pings the better. you can zero in on where you want to be. >> at what point will they decide to send those drone submarines under...

Investigators are scouring the ocean for missing malaysia airlines flight 370. these underwater pulses helping crews dramatically narrow down the search this morning. how close are they to finding the vanished jetliner? were live with the new challenges theyre facing today, right after the break. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? thats right, no hidden fees. its just that im worried about, you know, "hidden things." ok, whys that? well uhhh... surprise!!! um... well, it...