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Father. this video went viral. the name of this child is magdalena and her mother still does not know where federal authorities took her father. we are in jackson, mississippi, following this story. diane, we have learned that the father is the soul bread winner. there are four kids here, all of them born in the u.s. and all of them u.s. citizens. what more are you hearing about his whereabouts, anything. >> reporter: so here's the thing, brianna. i spoke with magdalena's mother, wanna. we're only using their first name because there's been a lot of attention. people contacted them asking if t...

A locator system be moved into the area to help find the recorders. it's a listening device put into the water to help find the pings of the recorder. it's not very useful until you have a debris field. it can't be picked up by human ears but listen to what it sounds like. now, this is a very difficult search with so many obstacles. ian is a professor of ocean nothing gra fee at florida state. you've given us maps to look at to show where the possible wreckage could be if the debris spotted on march 16th could be confirmed as part of the plane. explain this map that we're looking at with the p...

When they decided to turn, you can't find in the terms of the pingers after a certain amount of time. you can't find it in terms of it being two or three miles down in the indian ocean with the locator system. does it make you say that the black box may also need to be updated? >> no, actually. if you look historically, we have always been able to find the probable cause of these accidents, both the causal factors and the contributing factors and almost always we have found the black boxes. we have not -- this is a very, very unusual case. this is unprecedented. if you try to start taking real...