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crashing into the ocean near japan overnight. six people are said to have been on board. >> carley: there are reports that one of the engines looked like it was on fire as the aircraft went down. >> more hostages have been released the fighting set to begin again. >> direct link between ground operations and pressure on hamas. >> more than 140 israeli hostages remain in gaza. >> every day counts for that baby. >> dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas is heading to texas today. >> couldnt co...

Important part of finding wreckage. >> reporter: the names are intriguing but they have potential to accomplish is amazing. the orion, the triton xls, the dorado. they are aovs and rovs. >> a black box is not a problem at all for it to pick up in a basket and recover it. >> reporter: this is the triteton based in florida connected to a ship by an umbilical cord. then theres the aovs which are not connected. this is the orion run by the u.s. navy by a company called phoenix international. they pa...

Difficult and it doesnt always go as you expect. >> theres also the question of how much information -- i mean do you give each little piece of information to a family member. smoke is spotted on an island according to a helicopter crew who sees it is reporting to local media, is that information that you immediately give to the families or do you wait to verify it? >> there are very few incidents where you dont have the plane, where youre spending days searching for them. they crash on land and...

For help with sonars its going to take week maybe even a month or more to respond to that to get mobilized oen edd on a ship and get the ship out there. even if its a shorter distance than the malaysian air issue from land it will take a while to mobilize. the first thing youve got to know is where are you looking? where is that haystack? are you going to listen for pings? should you go out now with pinger locaters and go to the last position and try your luck? its a very horrible situation that...

Java sea between the islands of belitung and borneo. >> were devastated by what has happened. we do not know whats happened here. >> reporter: indonesia is leading the search with help from malaysia singapore and australia, the united states has been asked to join the effort and will soon send assets to the region. so far theres little to go on no sign of the wreckage no signals from the plane to help pinpoint its location. >> the chief operation in this area and airplanes and helicopters operat...

Sure the indonesians do know what were the last pieces of information that air traffic control got from the plane? we had presumably secondary surveillance radar. we had adsb and so forth. >> yeah. >> and, you know they might have had information coming from the plane right up until the moment of impact. >> right. we still ishave a lot we dont know. its been about 24 hours now on the dot since the plane disappeared. christine, let me go to you. when youre talking about the hours in search and re...

Asking about interim payments, death certificates, i can tell you in the last day or so, insurance companies in malaysia have now made it clear that they will start to entertain insurance claims, even though no bodies or no wreckage has been found. and what it demonstrates, wolf, is the significance of finding wreckage for certainty, but also how to move the process forward without seeming to be insensitive and delicate or downright wrong as they do so. >> richard quest on the scene for us now i...

Autonomous underwater vehicle. for the people who run it its -- >> basically a smart torpedo. >> reporter: and right now it may be the best remaining hope for finding wreckage from flight 370. we were given exclusive access behind the scenes at phoenix international, the company which runs the bluefin, to see just how it works. while it may launch from the side of a search ship, the bluefin is actually operated by remote control with help from a satellite. its job, not to listen for pings but to...

Here are not saying, carol. >> erin mclaughlin, reporting live from perth, australia. despite the bluefins early return it is the best hope to find flight 370 and it is an amazing piece of technology. >> reporter: this is a very sophisticated underweather drone essentially. we got access to the operators who run the vehicle who acknowledge this is a difficult job for the bluefin but they say its up to the task. its manufacturer calls it the bluefin 21, its technically known as at autonomous un...

On its first trip scanning the ocean floor, nothing of interest, nothing related to the plane, and it was a trip cut short because this unmanned sub had descended to the maximum depth it could, some 15,000 feet below the ocean surface. now, the bluefin-21 is called the best hope yet for finding wreckage from this jet, and this morning, search crews preparing to lower it again, again into the indian ocean to look once more for the plane thats been missing now for 39 days. erin mclaughlin live in ...