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In time. its a great idea. >> do you have any -- >> we dont know. >> i think its a great question. >> it is absolutely a great question. >> so will ripley, as youre out delay, and youre getting s information that its been delayed at least until 6:00 in the evening, and thats six hours more of a delay to get close to that pinger when the time is running out, any updates? >> yeah. we talked just now again with the folks who are kind of feeding us information. and what were told is that later this ...

Were looking for the haystack or whether were looking for the needle. there is effectively two independent searches going on. were talk whack rosa was talking about what happens beyond the assumption of where the impact point was and how the currents might affect that. what i would like to go back and interrogatory the assumptions where the impact point was. what i mean by that, how far its traveled there are three to five assumptions that were using. were using speed, altitude, were using endur...

It is four weeks since the jetliner vanished without a trace, which means by next week, the 30-day battery life will likely expire. you can hear it now. thats what the ping sounds like. however, there is doubt if it can even last that long. the pinger, the beacon that sends a signal from the voice and data recorders is going to go silent. an australian naval vessel is rushing to the search zone. it could take the ship three days to reach the area. >> today, some 11 ships, 10 planes, scoured the ...

One confirmable piece of wreckage from the plane, the field of this search can narrow considerab considerably. and a key piece of technology can help the teams zero in on the black box. thats what we have been talking about, the towed pinger locater, owned and operated by the u.s. navy, you see a picture there, aboard the australian vessel "ocean shield" head forts search area. it can be towed to depths of 20,000 feet below the ocean surface, detect the pinger from as far as 2 miles away. as wol...

And never give up. >> the ocean shield heads out to sea in hopes of finding debris. as cnn sits down with australias prime minister. >> this is a very, very difficult task. nevertheless, we are giving it the very best shot we can. if anyone can find this aircraft, its us. >> reporter: how long can this be sustained realistically? >> the effort is ramping up, not winding down. >> it is now a race against the clock as the battery life fades on those last boxes. >> both of those devices have been e...

Its able to produce a preliminary picture of the ocean floor realtime. as soon as this probe is able to go miles deep into the ocean. once the probe finishes its mission, then it comes back to shore. its connected to a computer. and it is actually able to produce a high-resolution picture of the ocean floor. what youre looking at is the deployment of a probe thats owned by cnc technologies in louisiana. and youll see that it gets deployed into the water. thats what it normally does. and once it ...

Bigger or heavier because that means its going to cost you over the long run. so its actually not the ideal frequency for under water. heres a little piece of irony. the p-3s and p-8s that are searching for this particular aircraft are outfitted with black boxes that float. >> huh. >> why not? why not have a -- you can have a redundant set of devices that stay on the surface and then you can broadcast on an emergency frequency and you could find a site much easier than trying to, you know, get s...

For speaking with us this morning. think about it, were 23 days in on this thing without definitive answers about what happened to this flight. as he was talking about this black box, a lot of questions you had, as well. >> i went down to south florida and spoke with a ceo of a company who buys commercial planes and refurbishes them including malaysian airlines boeing 777. i asked him about the planes data recorders and what is inside these things. >> they consist of three parts. you have the ...

Of the aircraft, even if it was at 35,000 feet versus 12,000 feet at a slower speed, it still would had the range to get to that location. that last ping. that little last-minute ping reach out to the satellite indicates to me the engines have quit or some type of emergency on the aircraft. those three things together tell me that were looking in the right place. >> what is the window here if this goes on? were several days into the search. several more resources. very large area but if dead jel...

>> the only way is just to get down there with the machines and take photographs and scan the area. its just tedious and very long. it will take a long time to get to that point. >> mary, i wanted to ask you, we were talking about these families and what their demands are. they were demanding answers, as we said, comprehensive evidence they want, as well, from the malaysian government and they also want apologies. they want the malaysian government to apologize for the information that caused co...