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This is where now this towed pinger locator right here is moving very steadily under the water and listening for anything that might peak its ears, if you lshgs or peak its interest. heres the depth now, a better depth charlotte. come on. there we go. better depth chart of where theyre operating. to give you some comparison, there are 14,800 feet is where the pinger locator youre talking about four, five, six, seven times as high as the empire state building. thats how deep that is in that parti...

Attendants work. why is that important? because it makes it that much more easy for them to identify -- there we go here. right in this area right in here. thats important because when theyre trying to identify where the black boxes might be, this is a part of the wreckage that often is intact. that tail area is often intact, or it literally can expel the black boxes. so if theyre hearing black box pingers, and thats not established yet, then they might be near the tail section of the plane or w...

Of these objects that is really raising alarm bells. they are so public about this raising hopes that in fact maybe something has been found. you heard them talk about this but one of those pieces 80 feet long. take a look at the context of the overall aircraft 209 feet from stem to sterm, wing span 200 feet. even the tail section of the aircraft is quite collaring and it has clear markings identifying it as a malaysian airliner. that could possibly assist if we are talking about one of the surf...

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An investigative stake in what happened to the flight, are really aware of the images and drilling down to try to get independent verification. one of the points made to me is that if this information made available on the chinese website is accurate at least one piece of debris is about 70 feet in length. which would be consistent with one of the wings on the boeing 777. the other thing to look for is the tail section as well and the other piece of debris also seem to be consistent with that, a...

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Families in china. that is all we know, that their bodies were found outside the aircraft, apparently thrown from the aircraft when the tail section broke off. >> so they were then presumably sitting toward the back of the plane. we are told there were a couple of student groups traveling from china. a tragedy indeed. any updates on the injured, john, people taken to area hospitals? >> reporter: we know there are a number of hospitals, five hospitals in all in the bay area that are taking care o...