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Father. this video went viral. the name of this child is magdalena and her mother still does not know where federal authorities took her father. we are in jackson, mississippi, following this story. diane, we have learned that the father is the soul bread winner. there are four kids here, all of them born in the u.s. and all of them u.s. citizens. what more are you hearing about his whereabouts, anything. >> reporter: so heres the thing, brianna. i spoke with magdalenas mother, wanna. were only ...

A locator system be moved into the area to help find the recorders. its a listening device put into the water to help find the pings of the recorder. its not very useful until you have a debris field. it cant be picked up by human ears but listen to what it sounds like. now, this is a very difficult search with so many obstacles. ian is a professor of ocean nothing gra fee at florida state. youve given us maps to look at to show where the possible wreckage could be if the debris spotted on march...

When they decided to turn, you cant find in the terms of the pingers after a certain amount of time. you cant find it in terms of it being two or three miles down in the indian ocean with the locator system. does it make you say that the black box may also need to be updated? >> no, actually. if you look historically, we have always been able to find the probable cause of these accidents, both the causal factors and the contributing factors and almost always we have found the black boxes. we hav...