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And every day gets worse. >> thats why theyve got to find that pinger from the black boxes within the next few days. otherwise this could go on and on and on. tom foreman, thanks very much. up next, do you have questions about the hunt for flight 370? if you do, tweet them. use the #370qs. our panel of experts will provide some answers. later, we take you to ukraine where troops are preparing for a possible -- possible russian invasion. ifyou may be muddlingble withrough allergies.nger... tr...

Experts, the pinger is certified to last 30 days. the reality is it may last 40 days. so the window may be a little bigger than we think. however, i agree. now, were looking for a need until a haystack, and then weve got to thread the needle. this is an enormous challenge. and it cant be underestimated. and the reality is it may take us two, three, maybe even four years to find this wreckage, if past experience is any guide. we may get lucky, we just may get lucky. and with the university of wes...

Today, they get the coordinates of that, they can go through their computer modeling and track it right back to its original spot the bit of debris was on march 8th. and theyll send the ocean shield right to those coordinates, and it can launch its pinger. and if necessary, the autonomous underwater vehicle as well. so we have got excellent data on the currents, the eddies in the area. its just a matter of confirming one piece of debris, and then we can go straight to the wreckage. >> all right....

Flight 447, we had better information of where the aircraft went in the water. we supported with the locator search. the pingers were nonfunctional. it then took over two years conducting sonar searches from autonomous vehicles to locate the debris. it can be a long effort. >> this could be long. that black box pinger could run out of battery for the next week. it could take three days to reach the search zone. much of the conversation is focussed on what needs to change in the airline industry ...

Ship. they can put it on any ship of opportunity. thats what theyre doing now. >> it is called the ocean shield that theyre putting the u.s. pinger locator has been put on the ship. it has big ocean shield on the side. >> they have a few minutes, a few days left to listen for that pinger and everything they can do, theyre going to try to do. so getting that pinger, that acoustic hydrophone and listening. even if theyre in the wrong area, at least theyre trying. >> and there is the shift that wer...

Pingers to detect. one or both of the pingers were destroyed or damaged in the crash and were not functioning properly. so the extensive pinger search that we did in the first 30 days after the crash didnt yield a target, which put us into this long search effort using the unmanned underwater vehicles, which fortunately, eventually ended up with detecting the wreckage. >> will ripley, explain to us why this vessel that is going out now that youre shadowing, why this one is so special and why the...

Scouring the debris field for any signs of life, looking for any possible survivors, though there have been none discovered. this town, this community continues to heal and push forward together as day ten of this search is set to begin. chuck? >> thank you, sir. now to yet another search, which, of course, has become a race against time in the southern indian ocean. ten aircraft and ten ships scoured this second of -- of the southern indian ocean today, and in search of any sign of malaysian ...

So, really, if were searching for a beacon and were living on borrowed time, i need something that is only less than a thousand square miles. >> right now were dealing with over 100,000 square miles? >> yes. >> reporter: as you said, challenging. >> its very low probability of detection if that is our search area. >> reporter: and thats a sobering thought for the families of those missing. as we board ocean shield, those working to deploy her are mindful that every minute counts. the pingers sig...

Now theres new technology from the united states headed to help find the pinger, were told. nbcs ian williams joins us live from perth, australia. before we get to the latest on the search, start with how much time searchers have to find that so-called black box. >> reporter: hi, craig, well wed assume theyd have another week, because 30 days was the assumption was that it would keep pinging for 30 days, and that ends in about a week from now. but just before the ping locater left perth, the u.s...

Shield. pinger hydro phone we have heard so much about thats designed to find that black box. listen for the southbound the black box emits. >> we dont deploy it or do we the pinger until we identify some sort of debris field. >> thats correct. we do need to find the debris field. the pinger locater can really only search within a mile or so. if you put it in the water right now, we are going to be searching for a very long time. of course we do need to lock down a much narrower search area. >> ...