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Completely underwater and the death toll has risen to 29. Scuba divers have made multiple attempts but debris hampered search efforts to get up to where the passenger cabins are located. We are getting a look inside is singeing ship. You can see now as the water is reshing into the ferry. They were gripping the guardrails. We are now hearing part of that conversation between the ferrys crew and Ocean Ministry officials. Take a listen. This is the captain caught on camera being rescued, leaving h...

This region surfaced on the internet. Lets talk more about the drone strikes. Cnn National Security analyst peter bergen joins us, hes on the phone. Peter, put this strike into context for us and talk about the importance. And is there anything that you know or you can tell about the, lets siee, the three senior members killed in this attack . We dont know who those people were, and we may not know for some period of time. In terms of the kind of the context here, president obama has authorized ...

Finding it is the navys bluefin 21. Its going down for a fifth mission. Any moment were going to be getting the results of the fourth. That should break any moment, as i said. Ill be bringing that to you when it crosses. So far it has searched 46 square miles and has not found anything. The question tonight is there a better way to search. Were going to take a close look at another underwater vehicle that has frankly, better capabilities than the bluefin. It actually found air France Flight 447 ...

Mission. >> at the end of the day we knew what we were doing is to try to help people answer questions about that flight. >> reporter: if the bluefin-21 currently being used in the search for malaysia flight 370 cant find the missing jet searchers could call upon the remus 6000 and navigate in waters almost 5,000 feet deeper than the bluefin-21. >> basically operated in most of the worlds oceans. >> reporter: when searchers asked if u.s. government for an auv, the navy says, the bluefin-21 was t...

Missing jet? searchers could call upon the remus 6000. it can navigate in waters almost 5,000 feet deeper than the blue fin 21. >> we will be able to operate in most of the worlds oceans. >> when searchers asked the u.s. government for an auv, the navy said the blue fin 21 was the only deep water vehicle it had available. after the remus auvs use side scan sonar, they usually come back with low frequency images. >> this shows up as different from the surrounding area, indicating that there is so...

Widespread in their abilities. >> you are an expert in so many days bringing up precisely that. the towed -- tell me what it is again? >> sonar -- side scan sonar is deployed one of two ways. you can put the unit on to an auv. or you can toe it on an underwater sled behind the ship. because youre running power down the cable you have a lot more strength in your signal. so blue fin is covering 15 square miles a day. we could find a deep towed unit that would do ten times that amount a day. when y...