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Repeatedly about the fact that the malaysians are not very good at communication. it seems to be one of the big problems. we saw the prime minister not even taking a question from reporters. lets hope the australians have not caught this virus and are misstepping here. i think about the poor families just grasping to any bit of hope that they can find and if it isnt really big, shame on the australians as well. now, let me just say, if it is in fact the announcement that there is a ping and they...

Australias ocean shield is steaming toward the suspected debris field. the search zone shifted eastward toward the australian coast but it is still an 1100 mile journey. the ship is one day away from the target zone. paula newton is live in perth, australia, with more details on that. hi, paula. >> reporter: hello, carol. as you said, that ship will be on site tomorrow. why is it significant? weve been talking about the expert equipment on board to be able to really detect that ping signal if, i...

Trace gallagher is live for us out in the west coast newsroom. i dont want to be pessimistic, buddy be but we deal in facts around here, and the fact is, fox can confirm they have no idea what theyre doing. >> thats exactly right, shep. theyre bringing in the next weapon, "the tireless," the nuclear sub, because it has the extra sonar capabilities to pick up the pings from the black boxes. the problem is the sub has to be within a mile of where the ping originates to actually hear it, and when y...

Making good progress, expected to arrive in the search zone, we are told by the australian defense force, either late thursday evening, or by the latest, on friday, poppy. >> and they made that decision to send the pinger locator out there, even if they dont have any idea if this is the correct search zone, but theyre going to do the best they can. give us a sense of how challenging it is, will, because i know i had heard some fact like it can only go sort of 3 miles an hour and only cover about...

Be the ones that actually hear that. there will be a transcript release. >> theres no way the audio is going to reach the public domain. >> its only through this cockpit voice recorder, which is the other box, which the tpl would ultimately listen for the ping. is that correct? theres no other way an investigator can tap into any kind of audio in the cockpit, correct? >> thats exactly right. that data is only captured on that flight recorder, thats right. >> staying with you, one of our senior i...

Or so width. it can be farther. if its a 12,000 feet, the beam goes out farther. so its a wider footprint. it cant go too fast. because if the ship is already here, when the ping goes down and comes back, that means the ping misses the ship. so were going about 5 miles per hour times 1 mile gives you five square miles an hour. with one ship. 130 million square miles to map with one ship. if you dont go far fuel, dont go for new guys, dont go for food, just stay in the hoegs ocean the whole time,...

Have identified where this jetliner wreckage is, and really, we just dont have a clue at this point because everything thats been recovered, examined on board the ships that are out there right now hasnt been connected to the flight. and so, for example, the microphone has a one-mile radius. it can hear the ping within one mile. when you have a search zone the size of poland, well over 100,000 square miles, think of the chances of being one mile away from the data recorder. >> right. >> reporter...

>> yeah, sean, this is not very hopeful. but oceanographers say they have something called a gire, as basically a toilet bowl that doesnt touch. so basically circulating rotating water. some environmental lists say this is like a garbage patch in the sea. where the surface is, the edge of the indian ocean. >> all right, next question, the black box locater has been sent on an australian ship for the plane, just really quickly tell us what that is. >> okay, this can be towed behind the ship to ba...

Wanted to see for ourselves what the weather conditions are like. and before i tell you how we were thrown around, because we were thrown around quite a bit on the boat, this was a clear day here. the conditions were considered calm. but you can see from the video just how not calm it was. >> i feel sorry for the guys on the "shield" heading out to the wreck zone because were at idle. were running along about 5 knots. those guys are punching this at 15 knots, so every wave is straight over the t...

Remember, it only has a radius of about 1.6 kilometers, 1.5 kilometers that can hear a ping being emitted so with a search area the size of poland your chances of being one mile from the plane are extremely low. >> many challenges and many frustrations, will ripley reporting there just off freemantle australia. john? now, the mystery of flight 370 continues to take a heavy toll on the families of the passengers. many have gone to the malaysian capital looking for answers only to find more frus...