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Couple under the radar, they did have a six-month-old daughter whos currently in child protective custody. and now for the latest on the investigation, im joined by nbcs blake mccoy, again standing right where the fbi local official was yesterday, and we heard then from james comey about what the national fbi is doing, what can you tell us? >> it was here that that handoff occurred from local authorities to federal authorities now that the fbi has taken over. we know hundreds of fbi agents ove...

That we are at now, if we want to find the aircraft, were going to have to find some wreckage on the surface to give us an idea of -- at least a general idea of where it is. it is enormously difficult, even with air france, where we knew what track they were on coming across the atlantic. it still took two weeks to find out where it was. >> other investigators have said that it would be helpful if we had more information about the conversation between air traffic controllers and these pilots, no...

. >> we have information on the jet component of the search. barbara at the pentagon, how much is this costing? >> the pentagon calculated it so far on the search since the plane went down, the u.s. military spent $2.5 million and they budgeted $4 million for it. they think that will carry them through early april in case it laughs that long. this is always a very tough issue. forces are training all the time. its hard to calculate in terms of what they wouldnt already be doing. -it is a sensiti...

Have some answers about that plane. cnns laurie segall, has more for you. >> hey, carol, right now, the plane sinks to the bottom of the ocean. the flight data recorder goes with it. we spoke with one company that says, that doesnt have to be the case and to say we could have had a lot more answers about the missing jet. >> when malaysian flight 370 disappears, the story of what went wrong vanished with it. the answers might be stuck in the flight data recorder, the so-called black box but what ...

And theyre done searching from the air for the day. cnns andrew stevens is in perth, australia, the hub of the crew. andrew, the weather was good today. we were hoping for something. >> reporter: thats right, carol. the weather was better than good, it was excellent. visibility really, really good out over that search zone, but the five aircraft who came out there all came back empty handed. not a sighting of anything resembling a piece of debris which fits what we know about those two objects l...

The plane deviating from its route, it will start streaming live second by second data. that. >> that kind of information is not only life saving but lends tremendous security for our country. >> unlike those systems, the technology behind flight is more intensive, sharing a tremendous amount of information. it can be difficult to monitor and analyze. it is only fitted today to 350 planes. installed for about $100,000. normal data transmission cost carries between a few dollars to $15 per flight...

Container. he said i had to get that information out there because the families of the people who are missing deserve to know what we know but, yes, it could be just a shipping container, nothing to do with that flight. so disappointment with the australian government as well that they seem to be dialing back, all around no progress. the optimism that was here just 24 hours ago, the buzz is now really fading. >> so disappointing to hear because the pings from those black boxes, the batteries are...

Reporting that something they say is odd. someone in the cockpit radioed in a message to ground control saying they were cruising at 35 thousand thousand feet. sounds normal. why might it be odd? they had just told ground control that fact six minutes previous. overall the determination here is that nothing seemed suspicious in these communications from ground control to the cockpit. we are waiting for more information on the transcript. two days of searching and there is no sign yet of possible...

Unusual? theres a lot of gaps in our knowledge that would help us. >> we know the ntsb is involved, steve. do you think ntsb investigators have seen those things? >> well, miles is right, the transparency of this investigation and the release of information has been terribly slow. this investigation was -- i mean, initially in the u.s. youd have an organizational meeting on day one and parties and it would all be organized. this investigation has, in my view, been very disorganized. its getting ...

Days into this that investigators know some of that information. i mean -- and just arent sharing it or really havent found anything pertinent. >> well, i can tell you in the fbis case doing the search now, you know, the first place theyre going to report back to is the malaysians. theyre helping the malaysians in their investigation. now at some point theyll brief other he entities of the u.s. government and it will quickly leak out. thats how it happens all the time. for right now the discipli...