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Macro data just to make sure and as you point out to the families to reassure that were looking in the right area and that we can actually rule out this rhetoric in the north going to pakistan and so on. >> and michael, i think sometimes, a pair of fresh is you notice things that you dont know this before especially since the first were under so much pressure. >> go ahead, rob. >> thats particularly true for underwater data. when you receive sonar data, it comes as a waterfall display to the unt...

Bluefin because this autonomous vehicle is used to working in deepths several miles belet surface. the bluefin 21 can dive about 2 1/2 miles but flight 370s wreckable in the indian ocean may be deeper than that. it takes about two hours for the bluefin to reach the bottom, where it can operate for another 16 hours. it scans the ocean floor as if its mowing a lawn, aye icing side-scan sonar, which identifies objects that stand out from the seabed. when its working with the side scanners it is not...

16 hours. it scans the ocean floor as if its mowing a lawn, using side scan sonar, which identifies objects that stand out from the seabed. . >> when its working with the side scanners, its not actually taking pictures, right? >> correct. its converting sound to electricity and then turning that electrical value into numerical values and then turns it into an image. >> reporter: when it returns to the surface, scientists download the sonar data to computers. the results may look something like t...

Based on what you saw in the sonar. you would have to look at that, analyze the sizes, the pieces on bottom based on the three dimensional sonar data you developed and you would have to make up a plan to go recover that. obviously the first order of business is going to be getting the black boxes. so those -- that piece of the debris if it it was bottom would be located and accessed by remote operated vehicle from the surface that would go down and get on the wreck and use manipulators to open t...

>> nbcs katy tur in indonesia. back stateside well bring in tom costello. we know theres been a lot of unconfirmed reports out there. what are the facts we know so far? >> katy touched on the sonar data and whether it in fact shows where or where not this plane may be resting. the head of airasia says there are no confirmed sonar pings coming from any wreckage. we have to see what daylight brings and the search brings as they continue to navigate through this very difficult weather. what we do k...