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That's why the ship as steamed out there on speck, if you have, if they find something. >> michael, i have to say, we're 25 days into this and now we're told that they didn't say "all right, good night"? >> i don't think we've had a straight word that we can count on. we have the tragedy of the accident and then an investigation gone awry. the pingers in the aircraft are being questioned whether they were contaminated or kept at the right temperature. so we may have lost that. we need to redefine success. success would simply be a piece of debris. if we lost to the winter season, like the sear...

That by putting this story out there as the good stuff. silver lining the school bungling this the way it did helped to get more attention. >> that's right. the silver lining is they did get it right eventually. >> are you kidding me? right out of the mouths of babes. very good stuff. time for news with miss carol costello. thanks so much. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom" breaking this morning malaysian authorities asking the united states for more military assets to find flight 370. as families demand answers. >> we will continue searching and we wi...

>> reporter: yeah, you're right. the batteries have been slowly fading over time and maybe the signal may be getting more weak as we go. as far as the detection abilities of the towed pin gger locator, there's another piece of technology on board called the blue fin. it's an underwater drone that can actually scan the bottom of the ocean floor looking for debris. these are two tools that were supplied by the united states navy. they are some of the best technology available when it comes to a search operation like this. but again, the problem is, if you don't have a narrow search area, this is...

Malaysia airlines, how they store the pingers and everything but he noticed that the pingers were kept in a hot room, 120 degrees. we spoke with the manufacturer and it's recommended that it's in a cool and dry place. if it's being stored at a high temperature, then it can definitely -- it can dramatically reduce the life of that battery. so i'm concerned about that. there's no proof that that's the battery in this aircraft. but it gives me the indication that we may be looking for a ping that might not be there. >> david, there is no ping, how can anybody find the plane? >> well, he mentioned...

My humble opinion, if they are asking for help, we should provide it in spades. >> michael, you know better than anyone, the f acaa and similar organizations look for lessons from situations like this. >> right. >> what lessons should we be learning right now? >> just to go back to what michael said, quite frankly we're putting the best resources in the world at a point in the investigation where we have very little hope of seeing any debris. let's go back to one lesson. remember when you talked about telemetry in the acars system. malaysia air decided not to buy the app. >> about $10 a flight...