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Course they are looking into the pilots background. that is a natural thing you would do in an investigation to see if there were any, for example, emotional problems happening at this point. but until we have an official who will go on the record at this point, we dont believe anything were hearing. until someone will come forward, show their face and say, here is whats happening. this investigation continues. they are still looking into this. and the reason, by the way, piers, that officials a...

New information about the washington landslide expected shortly. well bring it to you at 11:00 p.m. eastern. set your dvr every night so you can watch "ac 360" whenever you want. piers morgan starts right now. this is cnn breaking news. >> this is "piers morgan live." tonight breaking news focused on the cockpit. questions about the pilot of flight 370, his behavior and what investigators think might have happened. meanwhile, the fbi working around the clock trying to find clues on the compute...

The tow machine coming around, whats it called? >> the hydrophone. >> yeah. so its listening for the ping. they went over this area and excluded it. they said this area is no longer valid. so then the rest of the year they had to wait a whole another year to start it again. then they finally realized if theyre not on we need to go back and look at what we did before. wasted a lot of time. >> miles, what do you think? youve covered many of these things over the years. from all that has happened i...

Malaysia airlines. what he found was the pinger batteries, which are replaced during a sea check every 1,000 hours, were stored in a hot closet. its 120 degrees in there. its humid. remember, these are water-sensing devices. they need to be stored in dry, room temperature or refrigerated. so when theyre replaced they know that theyre functional. they know the batteries have been working all this time. we dont know that now because he said they found them that way. they did take those batteries, ...

>> well listen, as i say my heart goes out to you and your family, to all the families. i hope and pray that you get some good news. obviously it looks unlikely, but we can only pray. and i thank you very much indeed for joining me tonight. >> yes, thanks. >> when we come back, more new details on the investigation into the mystery of flight 370. get my experts to weigh in on key questions. what happened in the ok pit. what have investigators learned about the plot? co pit. what have investigato...

Too stormy, waves too high to see anything. >> thank you very much indeed. turn now to new developments in the investigation of the pilot and copilot of flight 370. pamela brown has this. pamela, a new "usa today" report out today quoting a senior malaysian investigator as saying that malaysian police believe that captain zaharie shah quote deliberately redirected the aircraft. your sources i believe are hearing something different. tell me what the latest is. >> reporter: well, piers, the offic...

The cart before the horse. and the cart is empty. you cant just come out with these statements, especially for families. especially for the families. and the flight crew has families, too. lets not forget that. and they are grieving as well. what a horrible thing to impugn them without any evidence whatsoever. so i think theres a sense in the inside this investigation if we just say a few things it will all go away. thats not happening. >> i completely agree. lets take a short break, come back a...

They went over this area and excluded it. they said this area is no longer valid. so then the rest of the year they had to wait a whole another year to start it again. then they finally realized if theyre not on we need to go back and look at what we did before. wasted a lot of time. >> miles, what do you think? youve covered many of these things over the years. from all that has happened in the last three weeks, do you think weve got much time left to actually find this black box and get to the...

Or could they tell the direction it would likely have moved? >> my understanding theyre already on-site and dropping bee co beacons or buoys to measure the drift. with that knowledge they should be able to tell that. theyre not sharing that with anybody that i know of or i can find. so their knowledge of how fast the currents go should be in their database right now. if they arent collecting that, i would find it impossible theyre not trying to collect as much in location data that they can whil...

See the buoy down here. >> reporter: in the air france 447, they located the plane. could those methods work in searching for flight 370? they would work. but without wreckage found, its going to be tougher until more tangible information is found. they cannot come up with data as clean or as pinpointed of a location as the air france maps did. wolf? >> brian, thank you. lets talk to colleen keller, a special analyst, a defense contract or who helped search for flight had 47 in the atlantic. we ...