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The families who have now waited so long and have yet to see any physical evidence that this aircraft is where the search teams strongly believe that it is. but this debris field, if there is debris floating, has been the target for 37 days. they keep poring over the data trying to figure out where the stuff might be. they just haven't found it. somewhere out there, there is a plane, there are 239 people, and there's definite determination out here to find it for these families and find those people. >> absolutely. and joe johns, you're in kuala lumpur, home base for, of course, malaysia airli...

That builds pingers say that the batteries are most likely dead or close to it. will ripley is following every step of the search in perth. will, why did they expand this visual search area? >> reporter: well, because they are continuing to fly out every day and they still haven't found a piece of debris. they are constantly looking at the data, at the currents and they are trying to get a handle on where this debris field, if there is still debris floating, where it could be. they continue to search tirelessly. not only above the surface but under water as well to see if there are any pings l...

Crash search we've ever seen? >> yes. certainly. at least of this significance a commercial airliner like this one. again, you think about that crash off brazil. two days later, we saw debris floating. took two year and just a lot more data points there to work with. here this debris will have been floating, if, in fact, a big if it is debris, for nearly two weeks. it will have been adrift. you're dealing with very deep water. the clock ticking, as we know, on those black boxes we call them. cockpit voice and data recorders, emitting sonar perhaps for another few weeks. you have to get a littl...

There's a lot of information we can get about that. we may be able to determine whether it was a fuel outage or intentionally put in. a lot of information you could get not from a small piece but a set of debris. >> and david gallo, in terms of debris floating, obviously where the debris would be found 12, 13 days after an impact is not where the plane went in. i know on 447 it took two years to find the actual plane, and at first i think in one of the areas you guys searched it was in the opposite direction of where you initially had begun to look. so how do you go about trying to triangulate...

Crash search we've ever seen? >> yes. certainly. at least of this significance a commercial airliner like this one. again, you think about that crash off brazil. two days later, we saw debris floating. took two year and just a lot more data points there to work with. here this debris will have been floating, if, in fact, a big if it is debris, for nearly two weeks. it will have been adrift. you're dealing with very deep water. the clock ticking, as we know, on those black boxes we call them. cockpit voice and data recorders, e mitting sonar perhaps for another few weeks. you have to get a litt...