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Ridge, this is an outline, if you were to tip washington state's iconic mt. rainier upside down, you get to the peak of it at about where the pinger is. 15,000 feet below the water. that gives you an idea of how far this locator has to pick up a signal and where the black boxes are likely. christi. >> you don't want to say where is it. it is not that easy. after more than three decades on tv as we switch gears here, were you surprised to hear late show host david letterman is retiring. we are interested to see what kind of comic relief his successor is going to bring. a live report coming to...

To find the senate again? the prime minister said it's fading rapidly, and that could indicate the battery's powering the pinger are already dying or may already be dead. the pings were first heard last saturday and then again on tuesday, but nothing has been heard since. on saturday, four team ships and ten planes involved in the search more nan 1,000 miles off the coast of australia focusing in on an area about the size of massachusetts and connecticut combined. let's start in perth, australia for the latest on the search. matthew chance is there. what is the focus of the search right now an...

They can survive up to 40 days, you have to be right on top of the device to hear it. what we have here is our 90-day pinger which will be installed on new aircraft starting march of 2015. these have longer life and identical to the 30-day device, but give the searchers an additional 60 days of battery life to conclude the search and try to triangulate the location. >> mr. patel, two pingers. one in front of the plane and one in the rear of the plane? >> correct. each flight recorder and the voice recorder would have a pinger. >> and sko,o, i guess mr. hegg, once the submersibles go in, it wou...

It's been several days, four fading. days since we've heard anything or at least officials heard anything. what is that telling us about prap perhaps the location of these pingers or could it be buried in silt? i wonder, would be, if you could address this? or is this as simple as the battery is dying? >> i think it's as simple as saying that the batteries are starting to fade away now. they don't just cut off at a certain day. they gradually lose power and get weaker and weaker. i don't think the black boxes will be covered in silt. situated as they are on this broader slope. so, you know, we...

With the sound of the pinger like sea life. one dolphin species sounds like a black box pinger. and this is the sound of rain underwater. let me get away from the loudest part of the boat so i can show you one of the biggest obstacles that searchers have in the open sea. just ship noise even here listen to how loud it is. they're at a minimum 15,000 ships on the world's motions on any given day. creating even more obstacles in a search that's already daunting. >> rosa flores joins me now. rosa, great piece because i think, you know, hard for any of us to get a sense.of just how weak the signal...