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There was a ping from the black box. few short miles to pick up that signal. and a cyclone could be hitting that area. >> theres a lot of misinformation on the transponder. i used to command the sort of top gun equivalent of helicopters in uk. theres this big misnomer on transatlantic ocean flights you can pick up transponder. it gives key pieces of information. however, that only has a range of about 200 miles. once i want goes past 200 miles it drops off. if youre traveling from london to new ...

At the right area now, what happens when the black box pings give out less than two weeks from now. >> its going to make things difficult. its almost impossible for me to say whether theyre looking in the right area or not. its not in particular what i work on, but when the ping goes dead, it will make it far more difficult, you have to get our underwater sensors a lot closer to the wreckage to be able to detect anything under water. >> what type of challenges are there if and when they do find ...

Battle of midway. it was about 1,000 miles north of midway in waters similar to this depth. of course, an aircraft carrier is quite a bit larger than an airplane. and the debris from an airplane would be a lot smaller than looking for an aircraft carrier, which in itself was very difficult. so the task of finding the airplane wreckage is going to be daunting for these searchers. >> i know that chuck hagel, our secretary of defense, is requesting hydrophones, i guess towable underwater listening ...

The global hunt for malaysia airlines flight 370 could come down to one very small sound, the ping from the flight data recorder. the ping may start to fade away about 14 days from now so crews are frantically racing to find it before its too late. heres what that ping sounds like. so quiet, so simple, surprisingly simple. correspondent rosa flores joins me to explain the frantic hunt for that sound, which as weve said before, doesnt really sound the way we thought it would sound. >> i know, i t...

Sent from the aircraft to satellite over the indian ocean. a satellite overhead. they were able to determine these arcs that youve seen. this one ping has given us these two big arcs that have really been the underpinning of everything weve been talking about all week. very significant. so significant that many of us said wait, there were seven pings. what about the other six? what can we learn from them? finally today, we got some information straight from the horses mouth. straight from a comp...

Mobilized to search deep beneath the surface and would begin with the hopes of finding this sound. pings from the two black boxes, the data and voice recorders. the pings are picked up by the towed pinger locator system which is basically a small microphone towed under water that can pick up signals from as far as two miles away. scientists only have 30 to 50 days from when the plane hits the water and the beacons die making the search harder. >> its important to find them before they go dead. y...

And the ntsb has already weighed in with its experts. people have taken that inmarsat data, we have a fairly high degree of confidence in it. they have drawn those two arcs and gotten away from the northern one on the notion someone would have seen it on radar. we seem to have focused on the intersection of where the fuel would have run out after the last ping. the best experts, many of them americans, have calculated where this would be. let me just add one also one quick thing to pam browns ve...

Theyre saying. >> for the constraints of time that you have, you do have sources and you are of the belief that our government in particular has a lot more information. can you confirm that you have sources that also are adding to your theory? >> not now, i cant. as you know im in the witness protection program right now. >> okay, fair enough. >> i dont want to put you -- >> im a face to face person. yeah, and rolls royce, get rolls royce and get boeings comments. they know a lot about from that...

A campaign rally. he says twitter ignored court orders to remove the web links. the founding pastor of a kansas church known for its anti-gay protest at public events has died. fred phelps was 84 years old. westboro baptist church members have picketed thousands of events, everything from lady gaga concerts to military funerals. now, an update of our top story again. planes are in the air over the indian ocean searching for signs of missile airlines flight 370, the area extremely remote and mala...

This day when youve got a large area of high pressure. im going to take everything east coast time. by saturday night into sunday east coast time youve got another storm system that moves in. then you have a clear day following that. then the following day of that you have another storm system. what that means, youre chopping up the seas of 30 to 40 feet in that area. anything that was floating like a composite material that has some air trapped in it or something is going to be tossed around. w...