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Radar that spot storms more than 100 miles. >> i think they knew they were enter to severe weather. perhaps were in severe weather. was the request to divert. they asked to increase their altitude altitude. that requires -- it was declined to my understanding. they were told to go left. so try to circumstance couple navigate the weather. they were not given authority to go above it. the plane, from everything i understand, could not have gone over the top of the storm. other planes flying in the area and apparently were several were able to manage the weather. that's what the data recorders an...

Airasia officials say the focus now is on the recovery effort. the search area is about six miles from the plane's last known location. analysts say finding the cockpit voice and data recorders, the so-called black boxes, is key to trying to figure out what went wrong. a u.s. navy ship has arrived in the search area. "the uss sampson" was dispatched following a request from the indonesian government. the pentagon says another ship "the uss ft. worth" is also getting ready to deploy. the discovery of debris and bodies is devastating news for the families of the passengers and crew. while watchi...

Some idea of where this plane made contacts with the water, if it was in one general area and that can lead them to the bottom the parts that they really need to find. what are those kinds of parts? we're talking about very heavy things basically. we're talking about the cockpit of the plane, the data recorders, things that they may want to know a great deal about there. if you look at the data recorders on this plane, what you're going to find is they are probably going to be near the bottom. if you're going to find big, heavy things like the engines, 9,000 pounds each you're going to find wi...

>> that sort of depth is possible with divers with specialist equipment. they can go down. they cannot stay down very long but they can, in fact, recover things. i would imagine we're talking in terms of weeks rather than months in recovering the data recorders. it's possible they could find it sooner than that. that's difficult to know the visibility is like down there and currents. i have done some diving myself. it is not always straight forward. there are other factors that come into play. if it is stormy or likely to be lightning strikes again. it is monsoon weather that we have at the mo...

Data what was happening and then you literally you plot it on to a timeline. so what they do is they put the voice recorder then they put all the imput then they put the weather and they build up a realtime picture of exactly what was happening in the cockpit and they can tell you to the nth detail right down to the power of the chimes and noises and alarms. >> what's different from mh-370 -- we can't help but make comparisons -- we watched how t battery life on those data recorders slipped away from us. time is on our side here correct? >> first of all, they know where the wreckage is. and if...