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Card actually surviving that kind of impact? have you seen that before in other crashes? >> yes. oh, yes. i have. i have cases where i have cell phone video and some cases, its crucial. in one case, it was really a key piece of evidence. ive had cases where youve gotten pictures off of cameras, information off of a laptop. its amazing what can survive and in a couple of those crashes, it was a horrific fire and still survived. these things survived and there should be more. i would think they wo...

Kind of impact? have you seen that before in other crashes? >> yes. oh yes. i have. i have cases where i have cell phone video and some cases, its crucial. in one case it was really a key piece of evidence. ive had cases where youve gotten pictures off of cameras, information off of a laptop. its amazing what can survive and in a couple of those crashes, it was a horrific fire and still survived. these things survived and there should be more. i would think they would be finding more but you rea...

Recorders are analyzed. >> this is our audio library, especially designed screen room that are shielded from outside signals and as well its got very good sound proofing. >> reporter: inside the safety bureau laboratory in australia. there are few countries in the world who have the technical know-how to work out whats inside one of these things. and this lab is one of those places. boxes from other investigations torn apart, burned damaged in many ways, suggest a tough assignment. but here they...

We know investigators will be focusing on. >> absolutely. >> the other issue is, we know that the black boxes have been handed over to malaysia. we dont know if they have been tampered with or not. how can one tamper with a black box, david, and what kind of damage can be done? >> well, theres really -- really youd have to have very sophisticated equipment which only a few places in the world have to be able to take the equipment -- take the information off, modify it, put it back on when youre ...

Bombings that killed three people and injured more than 2 of 0 others last year can he boston marathon. police have nabbed a suspect this morning at his apartment. he worked as a taxi driver and that is his cab in the parking lot. the man is a legal u.s. resident, now faces obstruction charges. prosecutors say he was friends with the accused bombers but lied to investigators about that. he apparently had dinner with them the night of -- after the attacks and tried to contact them after officials...

In a data recorder. theres up to 2,000 separate strands of information in one of those things. one of those places it can do it is in the australian capital. the investigators are confident they could pull off information. we saw a bunch of damaged recorder and cockpit voice recorders, as well. they have pretty much always risen to the challenge and got the information off. they have done many black box investigation. they are not just planes, don but also trains and believe it or not, ships, th...

One of those places it can do it is in the australian capital. the investigators are confident they could pull off information. we saw a bunch of damaged recorder and cockpit voice recorders, as well. they have pretty much always risen to the challenge and got the information off. they have done many black box investigation. they are not just planes, don but also trains and believe it or not, ships, they have black boxes, as well. one side bar fact i have to say, as an australian, it was david w...

Been plagued by sketchy, unreliable evidence, but among the more reliable evidence that i have seen, the immar sat pings that formed those two arcs north and south, which we are all familiar with and now the pings off the sonars, which have been detected by really the best experts in the world and those align. so, that gives me confidence that we are in the right area, but this is a huge, huge challenge. i think all i can say makes me most optimistic, i have never seen this level of internationa...

And when they are recovered. youre being looking at video from that show and tell and the lab examines 650 flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders a year. about a third of them come from foreign governments. they are very hopeful that they will be able to recover information if and when its recovered and someone actually asked, what has been your luck as far as pulling information out of it if its been submersed in water. they cant think of a time when they werent able to pull informat...

The democratic national convention to protest president obama? theyre targeting his out of control military spending. the convention set for the first week of september in charlotte, north carolina. boy, is their information off. and it was almost a proposal, but it failed. a man asked his girlfriend to marry him by putting a sign on the jumbo tron of the cubs game. one problem? she was on a beer run. she missed the sign. he popped the big question anyway. she ends up saying yes. no idea if ther...