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Thats why the ship as steamed out there on speck, if you have, if they find something. >> michael, i have to say, were 25 days into this and now were told that they didnt say "all right, good night"? >> i dont think weve had a straight word that we can count on. we have the tragedy of the accident and then an investigation gone awry. the pingers in the aircraft are being questioned whether they were contaminated or kept at the right temperature. so we may have lost that. we need to redefine succ...

That by putting this story out there as the good stuff. silver lining the school bungling this the way it did helped to get more attention. >> thats right. the silver lining is they did get it right eventually. >> are you kidding me? right out of the mouths of babes. very good stuff. time for news with miss carol costello. thanks so much. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom" breaking this morning malaysian authorities asking the united states for more mili...

>> reporter: yeah, youre right. the batteries have been slowly fading over time and maybe the signal may be getting more weak as we go. as far as the detection abilities of the towed pin gger locator, theres another piece of technology on board called the blue fin. its an underwater drone that can actually scan the bottom of the ocean floor looking for debris. these are two tools that were supplied by the united states navy. they are some of the best technology available when it comes to a searc...

Malaysia airlines, how they store the pingers and everything but he noticed that the pingers were kept in a hot room, 120 degrees. we spoke with the manufacturer and its recommended that its in a cool and dry place. if its being stored at a high temperature, then it can definitely -- it can dramatically reduce the life of that battery. so im concerned about that. theres no proof that thats the battery in this aircraft. but it gives me the indication that we may be looking for a ping that might n...

My humble opinion, if they are asking for help, we should provide it in spades. >> michael, you know better than anyone, the f acaa and similar organizations look for lessons from situations like this. >> right. >> what lessons should we be learning right now? >> just to go back to what michael said, quite frankly were putting the best resources in the world at a point in the investigation where we have very little hope of seeing any debris. lets go back to one lesson. remember when you talked a...

And never give up. >> the ocean shield heads out to sea in hopes of finding debris. as cnn sits down with australias prime minister. >> this is a very, very difficult task. nevertheless, we are giving it the very best shot we can. if anyone can find this aircraft, its us. >> reporter: how long can this be sustained realistically? >> the effort is ramping up, not winding down. >> it is now a race against the clock as the battery life fades on those last boxes. >> both of those devices have been e...

The area where we do find debris, it will be a little easier to reverse-engineer where they came from. because this part of the ocean isnt as violent as further south in the old search area. so oceanographers will have a better idea of how to really reverse engineer all of the currents and probably get us into a pretty good area where we may find the main debris field. but again, thats a big if, as you said, you know. we have to find at least a tell-tale sign of this airplane first. >> absolutel...

Anymore. >> geoffrey, in your estimation, given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they werent specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photogra...

Given this new information, how close are searchers to finding debris that they can confirm is from this plane? >> i spoke to some officials overnight, don, and there seems to be a greater level of confidence about the new coordinates that are being worked -- that have been worked through, using more data out of southeast asia. they werent specific about what data they now had. but they seem to be a high level of confidence. we do know they took photographs yesterday. these debris items were spo...

Ocean, they had the area defined to 40 square miles, 40 square miles. right now i think its something like 97,000 square miles, something like that. >> right. >> so they had it narrowed down to 40 square miles. they had people on-site one day later picking up pieces of the plane positively identified nape recovered bodies from the ocean. they knew where it impacted and ill stit took two years to search and locate for the wreckage and recover the black boxes. two years. >> remarkable. were talkin...