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I dont know. maybe you can call me crazy, but i feel in my heart, hes alive somewhere. i dont know but my mom and my moms strong. my dad has tried to become so strong. he cannot cry from the first time until maybe four days. four days goes by. but we accept the worst part. we know the worst part we know already. >> reporter: you just want to see him come home you want to see if he has survived? >> yeah still. >> reporter: you want to say good-bye. >> no no not good-bye. i mean until we see the b...

Didnt sink in the silt -- >> if the pinger battery is dead what good is that? >> well, mean, if the pinger was on the surface, at the bottom, i should say, of the silt, and give a signal, then maybe the box was sitting on top of the silt as opposed to in the silt. >> eight men and women are taxed with solving one of the greatest mysteries in modern aviation. what specialists on board the australian ship, what theyre up against in this around the clock hunt for flight 370. and the health and hu...

Not too distant future. >> the detection brought optimism, but crews are searching in the area on their own borrowed time. >> the guaranteed shelf life of the pinger battery is 30 days, and it is now 33 days since the aircraft went missing. >> investigators say they will only launch the underwater vehicle bluefin after they are certain the batteries are dead. equipped with side sonar, they can launch materials, but it is slow, once found it could take months to recover the boxes. the water in th...

Several hundred miles further west. why? because if there was any debris, theres been a series of storms over the last few weeks, and thats the direction any debris would have gone because of those storms. now, the flight data recorders might be on the bottom where that locater is at the moment but the debris could be much further west and thats why we see ships in that area looking for debris and one ship tows the ping locater looking for the all-important black boxes. as i say, it is interesti...

Recalls then. >> that is a lot of recalls. on the market, just because you say my name on the markets, does not make it my fault. >> its not your fault, but i know youre interested. >> very interested. it is interesting, though, were in a different place than the last few years. were used to increasing and increases, and now -- >> now youve got people selling growth stocks, going to the safety of dividend payers, more boring we have at least several days of intense action ahead of us. >> break...

If the pinger battery dies out, now they have a location fix in which to search. they can deploy all the other wonderful resources that the other guest was telling us about, the side-scan sonar, et cetera. this is a hugely wonderful development. i think we were talking yesterday what they needed right now is a huge dose of luck. maybe they got it or maybe they just had a lot of hard work going in by the particular ship and had a theory of where to look. it is the right frequency. it doesnt occur...

Listening device but i think once a decision is made that the pinger battery has expired they will need an enormous amount of resources with underwater remote vehicles, perhaps submarines to search for this, for this missing plane. >> peter, david, thanks as always. >> thank you. in other news this morning artillery fire between north and south korea this morning. it came after north korea suddenly announced it would conduct live fire drills in the area. south korea responded by firing 300 she...