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And then taking a picture. and then you have to process all the information. and then remember just to turn the ship around takes hours and hours. so you know you could be towing the thing for a couple of miles behind you. you have to reel it in and get it on another reciprocal course. so this is by no means a fast process, a very slow process. >> commander marks, always good to have you one, we appreciate the work you and everybody else is doing. and our panel joining us, david souci and david gallo, and richard quest. david as you look at where it stands today as opposed to yesterday, what d...

Search with the tpl for now. >> commander marks, good luck with the search, thank you so much. let's bring in tim taylor, sea operator, and david souci, analyst and author of the book "why planes crash" they're here with me. and cnn analyst, miles o'brien. tim, i want to start with you. the fifth ping is building confidence increasing the data map that could bring the searchers to the source. >> continue the pings, as long as you can get ping. the av work and ultimately rov work on this site, we have forever to do. we have limited days or hours as commander marks said on this. so get as much...

For the boatteries. so you search as long as you can? >> we talked to commander marks and he said he expected from the time they stop receiving the signals, the assumption that the battery is gone, they would continue to search for at least two more days after that just to be certain that they've gotten, as mary said, all the juice out of the batteries that are available. >> i still don't get the proximity related to the ping pickup. the prime minister said within a few kilometers and now you tell me the search area is the size of new hampshire and new jersey together. i don't get it. >> there...

A margin to last longer than 30 days, let's say the minimum is 30 days. right now, we really don't know. each of them depends on how long they've been -- or how they've been stored, how long they've been on the air frame. at this point, you're still within a wento where you could detect things. >>, davi david, at some point, investigators have to decide that we're no longer in a listening mode, we're in a looking mode, and we're going to have to rely on our eyes and our cameras to do the rest. when is that decision made? when they've just gone too many days without a sound? >> pretty much. it'...

Commander, australia's prime minister, tony abbott came out and said directly look, he is confident that what you've heard so from is from a black box that is from this plane. do you share that view? >> yeah, i do. for a couple of reasons. one is it was a -- we are detecting very continuous pings. and are coming through in a manner consistent with exactly what you would expect from a black box. we've ruled out that it was anything unnatural or anything from commercial shipping or anything like that. >> i'm joined now by our richard quest and miles o'brien and jeff wei weise. what do you think?...