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That today involved 12 aircraft and 13 ships looking in three areas, over 1,000 miles west of perth, australia. of course they are racing against time because those batteries of the black box is expected to run out any time. >> david piper live for us. we will check back for you. there is new news about this third ping. thank you very much. eric. a u.s. navy warship is reaching into action, reaching a disabled sailboat to rescue a sick toddler at sea. they were responding to a call for help fr...

Week. the batteries in the planes black boxes are fast declining, we do know that because thats how they were designed. if they are not found soon, we may never know what happened to that plane carrying 239 people. the search now entering its fifth week and still not a trace of that jetliner has been found. but teams are not giving up home. roger manard is live from australia with more on this. first of all, bring us up to speed, where are we? >> reporter: the search is now focused to top three ...

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Ping, ping. >> so heres hough the pinger locater work. its tethered behind a ship that trolls the area and searches at less than five miles per hour. listen to the sound we just heart at a department of 20,000 feet. it has to be within range of the pingers so its key to get close to the area where the crash happened to detect this, especially since the range of the ping is determined by environment in the ocean. >> how did he search go to today? >> they found debris today but nothing related to ...

Its always one of those, you know, optimistic things, and it sounded good. but the chinese have been down this road, you know, for now the third or fourth time with regard to information that theyre providing. the fact that this is the last day, the fact that theyre in an area that, you know, has -- is being searched by them, they hear this ping for about a minute, but then, of course, they cant relocate it. you know, there has got to be some cautious optimism here. while i would love to be wron...

He should have september out people to look at it, see if they got the ping again. should have done more due diligence because now they have enthused the whole world and clearly the parents and sisters and relatives, you are viand we position if it doesnt, it will have a great impact i believe on the credibility of the search. >> the batteries on the flight data recorders or black boxes are supposed to last for about a month. the plane disappeared march 8. and today is april 5th. the time is of ...

With. new analysis of the same information. radar data when the plane was in the south china see, crossing over the straight of malacca, how fast the plane was going. it is wildly significant how fast the plane was going in their calculations. remember, they are using that ping data from the satellite system to try to figure out triangulate where the plane was. >> that makes it worse if you say this isnt new information because that means that we have lost three weeks. if indeed this is the new ...

Feet. now, if it goes up to 45,000 feet, that will kill all the passengers in the back, anyone who doesnt have a mask in the cockpit. back down to 5,000. how do we know that? theres no one telling us, because we dont have contact from the plane 1:30 a.m. until a ping at 2:15, the malaysian military said they saw something, and then again at 11:08 a.m. theres a period where we know something, so someone is not telling us. heres my point, theyre not telling us everything they know. the families mu...

Because the batteries, the potential location for the box seems to be very, very inhospitable. >> we talked about this before. its not an exact, hard deadline. walk us through this. >> well, the spec says it goes 30 days but often times it goes longer than that. occasionally 35 or so forth. but occasionally picked it up where it was well over 35 days. so there is some hope of an elapsed time. and then they have found flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders in the past without the ping....

>> we have talked about this on "the five" for a week, and that is the curiosity here. when youre weighing the different options of what could have happened, what was the state of this plane with the 239 passengers, we have a number of theories, the representative there naming some of them, but what is adding up, making sense to you? >> heres the latest and this has been going back and forth all weekend long. very important to try to be responsible and not be speculative in that. at 1:07, that s...