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To come within about a mile of the pinger, just like the one he is holding. >> i can search approximately 50 square miles a day. 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 famil...

Search. weve been talking all along about how the clock is really ticking here. >> thats what makes this delay very interesting. were talking about it might be seven days. it might be 20 odd days left in that black box pinger. if there is a delay here, remember, we are originally scheduled for the ocean shield to leave on sunday there is another delay that makes you wonder about what has gone wrong, whether this equipment has been properly tested, whether this equipment will in fact work. were t...

Atlantic. brian, you had a rare look at how this was made. >> thats right. we went to the headquarters of phoenix international where the towed pin to towed pinger was located. it would tow the pinger several miles each way. it can go down as far as 20,000 feet below the surface. its sole mission is to listen for the pinger. we have a pretty good analogy of how it works. >> think of your cell phone ringer. if you lose your cell phone, you can call it and you hear the phone ringing so you narrowe...

Working this story for us. brian, its -- that ship thats bringing that ping locater out there, only going to get there thursday. that may be too late to pick up any of these pings. >> yeah, you really get the sense, wolf, this is just such a narrow window of time. but they still think its worth it to send that vessel out there. as you mentioned, less than a week until the battery life on the pinger of the planes black box likely runs out. that means a real sense of urgency now. u.s. navy command...

Were looking for the haystack or whether were looking for the needle. there is effectively two independent searches going on. were talk whack rosa was talking about what happens beyond the assumption of where the impact point was and how the currents might affect that. what i would like to go back and interrogatory the assumptions where the impact point was. what i mean by that, how far its traveled there are three to five assumptions that were using. were using speed, altitude, were using endur...

>> reporter: well, the latest that we just learned within the past 30 minutes, john, is that the departure has now been pushed back to 7:30 local time. so, weve seen the departure of time pushed back a couple of times throughout the day. it was 6:00, now 7:30. we know theres a 30-member crew on board. theyre trying to make sure all the equipment, all the high-tech tools are ready to go. in addition to the pinger and the underwater drone that can detect debris, there are also three highly trained...

California. is this a sign of whats to come? what the west coast has feared for so long. website problems on this, the last day, to enroll in obama care. despite the glitches, earliest return suggests close to 7 million people have signed up. welcome to "at this hour." time is running out in the search. it is now 24 days. it is hard to believe it has been 24 days that the jetliner has vanished without a trace. >> four full weeks of searching with not much to show for it at this point. which ...

We just have to wait and see. i want to bring in glenn connelly who is a senior reporter and produce were the 7 network here in australia, a cnn affiliate. were partnering up with these guys out on the boat today. glenn, i just wanted to talk to you about the time frame of this search. weve been talking all along about how the clock is really ticking here. >> thats what makes this delay very interesting. were talking about it might be seven days. it might be 20 odd days left in that black box pi...

It is four weeks since the jetliner vanished without a trace, which means by next week, the 30-day battery life will likely expire. you can hear it now. thats what the ping sounds like. however, there is doubt if it can even last that long. the pinger, the beacon that sends a signal from the voice and data recorders is going to go silent. an australian naval vessel is rushing to the search zone. it could take the ship three days to reach the area. >> today, some 11 ships, 10 planes, scoured the ...

One confirmable piece of wreckage from the plane, the field of this search can narrow considerab considerably. and a key piece of technology can help the teams zero in on the black box. thats what we have been talking about, the towed pinger locater, owned and operated by the u.s. navy, you see a picture there, aboard the australian vessel "ocean shield" head forts search area. it can be towed to depths of 20,000 feet below the ocean surface, detect the pinger from as far as 2 miles away. as wol...