avalanche sweeps mount everest in depaul. it hit one of the camps on the mountains at 21,000 feet. the guys were in the area to fix the rope for hundreds of climbers on the round. they were attempting to scale the mountain next month when the weather conditions are favorable. could it be a credible clue? today the blue fin submarine is back in the waters of the southern indian ocean in the search for missing malaysian airline flight 370. they are searching the sea floor where signals were picked up by a pinger locator on board the ocean shield. so far all data will could elected turned up no evidence of the plane. 11 aircraft and 12 ships will be searching the surface today. about 20,000 square miles of ocean. students at a missouri high school they are holding a protest for a fellow classmate who got a warning for carrying a
would cost that much, but this gentleman in australia, mr. dolan, one of the search investigators, said this was maybe a ballpark rough estimate. it s hard to really imagine exactly how much the costs are going to be when all is said and done, but investigators do seem to be at a point where they may be taking stock of where they are right now. malaysia s transportation manager said if the search of the indian ocean doesn t find debris from the plane, he said there will come a time when we need to regroup and reconsider, but then he said the search will always continue. meanwhile, we do have some new information on the cost of this particular phase of the search. getting this from sources close to the operation. an official with naval sea systems command says the u.s. navy has budgeted about $3.6 million just for its portion of this particular operation. now, that $3.6 million covers the deployment of the blue fin, of the towed pinger locator, which found those underwater signals more
region and back to the united states for those personnel and presumably for the equipment. again, that is just the u.s. navy s budget for this particular phase of the operation, including the blue fin and the towed pinger locator. it does not include the cost being footed by the australian government for the ocean shield and all of that related equipment, carol. all right, brian todd reporting live from washington. thank you. still to come on the newsroom calming the crisis in ukraine. secretary of state john kerry and his counterparts trying to do just that. actually, we re waiting for john kerry to start speaking from geneva. we ll talk about it all next. let me get this straight. [ female voice ] yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won t cause me discomfort. exactly, because it s milk without the lactose. and it tastes? it s real milk! come on, would i lie about this? [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100% real milk. no discomfort. come on, would i lie about
i suppose in some ways it is expected on day 39. those pingers are meant to last for at least 30 days. so we re well past that use by date for the batteries on those black boxes. i think a lot of people were expecting we would get to this phase. they ve been desperately hoping to get another one, two, or more pings. they use them to triangulate, if you like, to narrow down the search area. the ping locator that is being towed along behind the ocean shield or has been until now. it is not a directional receiver, if you like. it is omnidirectional. so it gets an idea but not to pinpoint it. the more they got the more they could narrow it down. it seems they are not going to get anymore so the bluefin goes down. as we ve been discussing, angus houston making the point that you know, the bluefin phase of this operation, while they have
we have and must be pursued vigorously. again, i emphasize that this will be a slow and painstaking process. in another development, i can report ocean shield detected an oil slick yesterday evening in her current search area. a sample of about two liters has been collected and it will be a number of days before it can be landed ashore and conclusively tested. i stress the source of the oil is yet to be determined but the oil slick is approximately 5,500 meters downwind from the detection picked up by the towed pinger locator on the ocean shield. a few words about today s search. up to 11 military aircraft, one civil aircraft, and 15 ships