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They're actually ready to get on a plane and go to kuala lumpur to confront the people at the highest levels, because they say the malaysian officials here in beijing that they've met with on and off are not effective enough. deb? >> it's fascinating to watch, because obviously, the malaysian officials have to balance the degree of information that they're releasing with the pain that families often feel. so, pauline chiou, thanks so much. we appreciate your following this for us. a grim update this morning from the scene of that deadly landslide northeast of seattle. 14 people are now confi...

They're looking in the other side of malaysia and then satellite pings that they picked up suggesting that the plane had flown many more hours and sending the search and rescue teams south, south, south all the way towards awe stra yal. the caution just to remind people, they don't know what this is. it looks like fairly large piece of of debris in the ocean. as they get close to it, they won't know. and then the task will be if they do think that it is flight 370, to get down to find the aircraft and to find crucially the data recording, the flight recording boxes so they can try and find out...

>> we don't know, do we? not yet. >> we don't know but i think it's extraordinarily remote possibility. just to clarify one thing about the black boxes. there is really two parts to this. one is the voice recording part which is two hours as tom said and does potentially go longer. the data recording, every move goes to the end and that will prove useful. >> i know you don't me to go there. kerry sanders wants to jump in. he has got a bigger sense of the search area. i guess we should look at the very wild theory of potential places where the plane could have gone down on land. take it away wh...

From the plane to satellite according to its speed and altitude. the final ping was sent over water over a normal cruising altitude. aviation official are still investigating the possibility that someone on the plane disabled its communication systems. abc news reports two data recording systems were shut down less than 15 minutes apart, indicating a deliberate act. joining us now former senior air safety with the national transportation safety board greg fife. is there anything we know that doesn't indicate a deliberate act? >> at this point, mika, no. it is now clear that somebody intentiona...

The flight data voice recorders and the go team is on the ground? >> they have had the flight recorders i would say for roughly about four hours now. so right now they're downloading the data from the flight recorders. and those are actually located in the back of the plane, the back area around the tail. so we have some video of the flight recorders, the ones shipped over from san francisco right there in the lab. so once again, you can see a little bit of soot on them. but the process of trying to figure out exactly went what went on moments before the crash landing, they can provide a lot o...