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Australian prime minister's comments? >> i think he's being brutally honest. it truly can't go on forever. it's a matter of resources and also a matter of they've scoured or they will have scoured the most promising area based on the nmarsat data. it was utter confusion and that helped add to the mystery because they were searching in the wrong areas at first. the malaysian government was not fully forthcoming on some of the radar information so i think tony abbott's being -- wrong day i suppose to be this bluntly honest, but it won't go on forever. >> there was confusion and there was also ap...

More suggestions that precious days were wasted in the early days, due in part on the malaysian end. randi kaye has more on that later, and the malaysian officials say they tracked them on the radar after it turned west from the peninsula but then delayed sharing it with the government authorities. reuters saying they didn't saying everything they knew about the westward flight path until days later and it took an order from the prime minister to make it happen. as you will recall it took days to stop the search in the china sea, wasting time. and australia's prime minister said the pinger bat...

Much. but that is also a source of information where when the sonar cr scanners and submersibles and equipment to find the pingers finally arrive that is where you would want to send them. the black box and heavier parts of the plane would not have floated away. it sightings and this partial ping, that's where i would send the black box equipment to find it. >> david soucie, where is it going with this? are we waiting for these planes, the rescue boats and so on, to find these pieces without those could we have a situation where we never discover what has happened here? >> everybody talks abou...

Malaysia airlines. what he found was the pinger batteries, which are replaced during a sea check every 1,000 hours, were stored in a hot closet. it's 120 degrees in there. it's humid. remember, these are water-sensing devices. they need to be stored in dry, room temperature or refrigerated. so when they're replaced they know that they're functional. they know the batteries have been working all this time. we don't know that now because he said they found them that way. they did take those batteries, and retire them. they retired those batteries and put new batteries in the refrigerator. since ...