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Years. and then as you play with technology, can move much further along larger, more batteries and lower frequency and last multiple years and ranges that are 10 to 20 kilometers. >> so glad you showed it to us and your skype came back. thank you, chad myers. thank you, and to you the viewers, for being with us this hour. have a good weekend. my colleague, wolf blitzer, starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. the search for mal...

Two dozen planes and ship continue their work above. lets bring in matthew chance in perth, australia. matthew? >> reporter: thats right. the new phase in this search for flight 370 with search teams moving under the water, probing the seas of the indian ocean, trying to find any trace of the missing malaysian airliner. the assets that they needed to do that, the two ships, theyve now finally moved into place. it took them several days, if not longer to get there. now theyre there, even though t...

This plane is in the water, bear in mind. so that the pinger might be not relevant piece anyway. >> but the black boxes are always relevant, if its in the water or not, the black boxes will tell us whats going on or not. >> yes, thats correct. and im very impressed with the attitude that people are taking tonight, listening just to our panel and all, its very encouraging to hear the assembly theyve come up with now is impressing people that much. im going to have to get on that side of the issue...

At least youve got a shot at that. somebody might catch it. right? is in this situation, it is just frustratingly slow. and its just not going to happen. unless theyve got better information. >> all the areas you were investigating for the ntsb, have you ever seen anything like this before? >> this has been absolutely inexplicab inexplicable. this is as tough a situation as ive seen. and i dont think its been handled very well. you cant raise expectations. if youre putting the pinger in the wate...

Military officers, and otherses athood, texas. hes about to go to the microphones, were told, fairly soon, brief us on the latest. well have live coverage of that, coming up. stand by. in the meantime, four weeks exactly four weeks of searching by air, on the sea. now under water. but so far, theres still no sign of the missing plane. once again, here are the latest developments. two ships are now scouring a 150-mile track of the indian ocean. the australian ship, the "ocean shield" is equippe...

>> the pinger is transmitting a very high frequency signal. it does have mechanisms to translate the high frequency sounds to a noise and register it. when we heard it, it is like ping, ping, ping. you cant hear it if it is in the room. it is so high frequent sichlt it has to be done slowly and at a distance of no more than a couple of kilometers away from it. the difficulty is the depth of the water versus the topography under water, what the actual seabed or ocean bed is looking like. put all ...

447 from a few years ago. richard, you covered that closely. and the issue with that, take the pinger issue away. they found the black box two years and a month after that plane crashed. but it was the submersibles, the vessels that found the wreckage. and initially, they could float over the wreckage, or been over it early on and missed it. >> oh, absolutely. thats one of the things, yes. yes. if you read the report, it makes it quite clear in the early parts they did go over the wreckage and d...

Sounds. >> if we dont find wreckage or hear the pinger, it is going to come down to this truly herculean task. >> this is a huge arc. on the scale of that. >> we are going to talk a lot more about this. we have serious questions about whether this is feasible, practical, advisable. jeff wi. se. dont forget to look us up on facebook at this hour. ahead at this hour -- the search for flight 370 is being based on educated guess work, guess work. is that accurate enough at this point? 28 days in. ...

It can go as deep as 20,000 feet, which is beyond the necessity in this search area. i think the biggest is about 13,000 feet. apparently, the censor looks a bit like a yellow stingray. jeff weiise is here with us tod. good to have you with us. we talked about its capabilities and what it can do. it also has some limitation. >> it goes very slowly. you are committing an entire ship to this search. the ship is pulling this thing behind it. it is like mowing the lawn. you have to go back and forth...

Limited search. by the nature of the equipment, the pinger locate tore, it can only go very slow. so that is going to take a long time and is really, i would say to some extent, the last gasp effort before they know the pinger is going to stop transmitting. >> thats what i wanted to ask you. do you think this is based more on refining the data, refinin refining -- >> yes. >> -- the information they have or more of an issue of the time crunch theyre facing? >> a bit of both. once the pinger has g...