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I want to take a moment about wedding rings. a wedding ring is a wonderful symbol of two people joining their lives in an ever lasting circle of love. they will be together for as long as they both shall live until somebody throws their wedding ring away three days after their wedding which is what happened to a woman in florida. she had her wedding ring sitting by the pizza box sitting in a teeny bag. >> when they cleaned up all the stuff from dinner, trash went away. >> that was christie, wast...

To me this is still a tough call. if you hear somebody lost in the woods and you hear their voice calling out to you, you say that is them but we didnt find them, so were leaving. that is a tough one. >> i know on your initial search for air france flight 447, you picked up a ping. that can throw a wrench into the whole thing. >> yes, it can. there were four months where we spent time looking for a haystack and a needle that was not there. >> and richard as you said moving forward they have to g...

This. so if they say they found no evidence they found no evidence. to me this is still a tough call. if you hear somebody lost in the woods and you hear their voice calling out to you, you say that is them but we didnt find them, so were leaving. that is a tough one. >> i know on your initial search for air france flight 447, you picked up a ping. that can throw a wrench into the whole thing. >> yes, it can. there were four months where we spent time looking for a haystack and a needle that was...

Throw a wrench into an operation like that. >> yes, there were many. yes, it sure does. there were many or several false alarms with air france 447 where we spent months of time looking for a haystack and a needle that was not there. >> and, richard, as you said moving forward they have to go back to the handshakes, the inmarsat data. and whatever it means, it means a larger search area and a lot more time. >> oh, no question about it. youre going not only to one handshake, youre working your wa...

And argentina. in the meantime, the u.s. is sending 80 military people to chad to search for the girls. they say the personnel are not combat troops. theyre there to help with surveillance and reconnaissance for aircraft missions. >> people have said its a needle in a haystack. its a needle in a jungle. were talking about an area roughly the size of west virginia and its dense forest jungle. we do still believe that these girls have been split up into small groups. for all we know, i dont know t...

Do you think its smart at this point, david, to call off that search from the air? >> well, i think they have to pare it back, because it seems like theyre grasping at straws. it seems difficult to do any serious modeling. >> shawn, any downside, you know, when you havent really defined the haystack really that well for the underwater search, is there a concern in giving up the air search? >> well, no, i dont think. i think the air search, in my opinion, is coming to an end, just because of the ...

Based on speed and height drew us down into that southern area and remarkably we got these pings. weve gone from 10 million square miles down to 300 square miles. its all kind of back to front. looking for the needle, remember, without the haystack, relying on those pings from the black boxes and only had a life of 30 to 40 days. about day 38 angus huston had a big decision to make, does he pull the ping locater out and put the bluefin in? when he does that, he effectively is resigned to the fac...

Has operated at those depps quite a bit in the past. the second thing is that it comes with a very capable launch recovery system. thats how you get it on and off the boat. and thats very important because it increases the weather window that you can operate in. so you have less downtime when youre out there. the third part of the problem really is navigation. you know, when you think of this as finding a need until a hay stack its more like trying to find maybe a lost antique coin in a big foot...

What each one can do. >> okay. >> one thing that its very good at is it can operate to 6,000 meters. so its well equippd to get to the depths in the search area and has operated those depths quite a bit in the past. it comes with a very capable launch and recovery system. thats how you get it on and off the boat. it increases the weather window you can operate in. the third part of the problem really is navigation. when you think of this as finding a neddle in a hay stack, its more like trying t...

2007, steve fossett takes off from the flying ranch in nevada. heading out he promises to be back for lunch and nobody sees him. >> the best way to describe it, looking for a needle in a hay stack, within ten hours. >> reporter: the terrain there is rugged. the wilderness between western nevada and eastern california is vast. >> did that plane have the equivalent of a black box? >> it has an elt, a locater system that can be picked up by satellites. >> reporter: radar picks up the planes crack a...