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Countries of interpol, 190 countries, to make these queries. hes got a hard time getting anybody to want to do it. the excuses in the past about it takes too long is not true. it takes 0.2 seconds on interpols private network. >> scan a passport within 0.20 seconds to know where its real or stolen. >> something that could be a problem with some of the countries is some just dont have the resources or the setup to communicate between agencies in order to get that information there. so that founda...

Authority and by the royal australian forces, we are told that they amend those just because they have obviously looked at the water, found nothing. you can see there the three red boxes. when they find nothing, they just alter where they are actually going to search next. also, brianne a, in conjunction with the refinement of the data coming from the international working group, the technical specifications that are taking place. >> the other issue is the sort of painstaking process of doing th...

Device tries to detect where the pinger from the black box flight recorder from that missing aircraft might be. its something that starts, as i say, a new phase in this operation. but the authorities here in australia, which as you mentioned, have taken the lead somewhat because of the geographical proximity of the search area to australia, say that theyre also counting on trying to, you know, get some kind of tip-off from the air. theyve got, you know, several planes in the air, at least ten mi...

The black box from air france flight 447 in the atlantic and failed to find the pinger. the manufacturer says thats because the pinger broke off from the black box. it may have been damaged. but in three other cases, success. a 1996 air crash in the caribbean. the egypt air crash in the atlantic in 1999 and the 2007 of an adam air jet. the black boxes were found but the search areas were relatively small. malaysia air is the fifth attempt and its still a long shot. >> weve got nothing to lose. i...

Blizzards destroying everything in their path. millions of people throughout the country feeling these storms wrath. indra petersons tracking the areas hardest hit for us and where the storms are heading next. welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> im poppy harlow. its friday, may 4th, 5:00 a.m. in the east. breaking news in the hunt for flight 370 and a potential turning point as the search moves under water. australian officials who have now taken the lead in this say the subsurfa...

>> reporter: yes. thats right. and thats why this new phase-in the search operation has really got under way now. the sub surface operation with the deployment of the submarine, with the australian vessel that has that sophisticated search technology attached to it as well and a british ship with similar capabilities, all working in conjunction with each other in a race against time, essentially, to try and find the pinger which is on the black box flight recorder of that lost airliner. and of c...

So they have to pass virtually over the top of the pinger in order to locate it. >> and they do it sort of like a lawn mower. they go back and forth and back and forth. and just move across that area, is that how they do it? >> theyre moving in a long, straight line, trying to minimize the other noise disturbances that are in the ocean. and listen very, very carefully for the faintest possible sign. >> so were familiar with some of this high-tech equipment. i assume that if -- we know at least o...

Black box. now, the pinger may only have a day or two of battery life left. thats why the move subsurface, theyve got to do it now. meantime, nearly two dozen ships and aircraft will again begin combing the surface of the ocean. overnight officials said all of the leads garnered from satellite images turned out to be other things. they are still looking. cnns matthew chance is live for us this morning in perth, australia. walk us through these latest developments. you know, the pilots are still ...

Evidence that where the under water devices are, they may be very high-tech. that theyre going in the right direction. >> wolf, the only thing i can say, i think its an act of desperation. unless theyre acting on some sort of, you know, information that theyve received recently, the idea that youve got a towed pinger going at two-and-a-half knots with a width of about two miles to three miles, searching in a size of idaho, this is just -- this is just a stunt. >> because if you go at that pace, ...

Confidence in that device. they said if that pinger is still working, if they are searching in the right area, they will find it. the pinger locators track record speaks for itself, wolf. >> the locators have been successful in finding locators in military crashes, right? >> thats right. one very prominent one. the manufacturer says that theres been several instances where its found military planes because of its success record there. in 1997, a u.s. and a german plane collided off the coast of ...