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Ping, the partial hand shake from the plane to the satellite, remember the handshakes. they will go back and remain truthful and faithful to where that seventh hand shake is and define and area possibly up to 60,000 square kilometers. they will map the ocean bed. that is crucial to understand what the floor of the ocean looks like before they search again, then give a private contractor the job of doing it. >> rene, if there's one ray of light in your reporting today to say it is excellent, just sad, there is that notion of the hydrofoam, the system that is out there, there was some remarkable...

Missing passengers are staging a sit-in at the malaysia embassy. and for more would go to dominic in los angeles for the latest. >> reporter: believe it or not this is day 50 in the epic search for flight 370 and the search effort suffering a setback on friday when bluefin 21 suffered a software problem and had to abort the mission. the australian crew now, they are going to have to move to a new area. bluefin is almost done with the original area on the ocean bed and it has come up with nothing so far. it looks like they are going to have to set their sites on a new area. all of this is happe...

Search, will come to an end. >> ken christianson, a smart idea to stop the air search? >> again, i think at this point it is because there are expensive assets and it's really not going to cover anything. if there is any debris field, it's so far from the point of impact on the wreckage that it wouldn't really provide the location of the larger wreckage that could be under the water. the only thing we would determine if you did find a piece of wreckage is it would confirm that it is the malaysia airplane that went in the water because to date we still don't have a piece of wreckage that confir...

>> yeah, they had the haystack within five days, wolf, you're absolutely right. and it still took them two years. we don't have a haystack. what we've been doing is unprecedented. we've been trying to bypass the haystack and go straight in for the needle. if i was angus houston, number one priority at the moment would be getting at least something that can link debris to the resting place of mh370. if only to console and, you know, for the closure of the families. so that's the important bit. debris on the surface, debris on the ocean bed or the black boxes. there's three things that we can ac...

Look, what tools do we use to look? it's going to be a big question, because really so much political capital really committed to saying, "we are very confident that we found the black box pingers, that we're about to locate the wreckage," they really set themselves up -- >> that was about a week and a half ago when they expressed that kind of confidence, and now not so much. >> and now we're seeing that fade away, and hearing language about reassessing. so basically, what we're saying is, we have to reassess before we can really talk about what kind of tools to use, because we really don't kn...