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On a ship heading to the search zone but the batteries are about to die and its a race against the clock. brian todd has been looking into this for us and hes got more of what is going on. brian? >> wolf, the tension is building as the clock winds down just a few days until the batteries on that pinger die out. the technology to help find it wont get there for at least three more days and it cant even start probing unless wreckage is found. the malaysian transportation chief expresses everyones ...

Area. how much garbage is there out there in the indian ocean? >> well, the ocean -- the indian ocean and most of the other oceans are really filthy. everything that is plastic, that is built to last and gets into the ocean just wont really decompose there. so you get something like a piece of fishing gear that can stay in the ocean for decades, easily, and everything gets accumulated. it gets swiped up in these areas called the garbage fetches. where they are searching now is really close to on...

Concentrated area of debris -- you know, that you can trace back to the aircraft. >> let me get a final thought from richard. your bottom line assessment right now, are we back to square one? are we moving ahead? is there any progress here at all in. >> there is progress but im slightly less optimistic than i have been because i heard one person speak overnight, one of the inventors of the black boxes who said its basically now getting almost very difficult that they will ever find it. and wolf,...

Wolf. >> okay. lets talk about the frustration. a lot of men and women are involved in this search. its been going on now -- were in the fourth week. how frustrating is it to your men and women who go out there and come out with jellyfish or garbage and junk and nothing to do with the plane. how frustrating is that, commander? >> its one of the realities of any evidence, there are always highs and lows. if i can speak about the aircraft yesterday, we identified 14 objects of interest throughout ...

His aircraft. hes a man who has a lot of information. he has a lot of information about the region, the popping to gra fee, and these are the questions that hes coming to, putting together all of the information that he now has available to him and for him it very much does seem -- and its an inescapable deduction of logic, he says. he cannot get away from the fact that whoever was flying the aircraft towards the dawn on saturday morning was somebody that knew how to fly the aircraft, knew how t...

Working this story for us. brian, its -- that ship thats bringing that ping locater out there, only going to get there thursday. that may be too late to pick up any of these pings. >> yeah, you really get the sense, wolf, this is just such a narrow window of time. but they still think its worth it to send that vessel out there. as you mentioned, less than a week until the battery life on the pinger of the planes black box likely runs out. that means a real sense of urgency now. u.s. navy command...

When you see the studios trying and theaters trying. i think this is a good thing. these movies are doing well at the box office, were encouraged. the wolf of wall street just broke a record for over 400 f-words, im glad to see something on the other side and trying to make movies about the bible. >> god seems to sell, huh? >> if you get it right it sells better. >> even if you get it wrong apparently it sells. up next "saturday night live" spoofing the last ditch efforts get to get people to si...

One confirmable piece of wreckage from the plane, the field of this search can narrow considerab considerably. and a key piece of technology can help the teams zero in on the black box. thats what we have been talking about, the towed pinger locater, owned and operated by the u.s. navy, you see a picture there, aboard the australian vessel "ocean shield" head forts search area. it can be towed to depths of 20,000 feet below the ocean surface, detect the pinger from as far as 2 miles away. as wol...

Remote control from the ground in the event of an emergency. in a situation of distress, in this scenario, the pilot could flick a switch or maybe some kind of a sensor could trigger the autopilot. the autopilot could then be activated by radio or satellite. and our aviation analyst, mark weise, explains what would happen next. >> everything now that the pilots who try to do would be inconsequential. because the ground controller would be handling its flight path, its landing gear, its flap syst...

When that period ends. so, you know, people are going to respond in different ways. but thats a real concern, wolf. >> because, you know, i keep hearing closure. we always talk about closure. and people get -- they move on with their lives, but for so many of these people, you lose a child, you lose a mother or a father or a wife or a husband, you never really, sanjay -- you never really have complete closure. its going to stay with you forever. >> it does. and, you know, the idea that you never...