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Share with you. by 39% they're saying to more than 22,000 square miles. just yesterday, remember, that area had shrunk to 16,000 square miles, which was the smallest area thus far. >> today, 12 planes, 14 ships are scouring the southern indian ocean. this as you know is a dire ater attempt to find the black boxes, any part of this plane. >> joining us to discuss the latest, simon with the national oceanic center. >> and mary, a senior profiler. simon, starting with you, what do you make of this expanded search area? >> please be careful, the expanded area is the search area at the surface and ...

Bluefin underwater drone in, is it time in. >> i think so. i think the design life of the batteries on the pingers were 30 days. we're now over that, and that's a reasonable -- the most one could ever hope for. to be honest with you, i think it's about time to put the bluefin 21 to start searching the seabed. >> all right. simon, one last one to you. i know that in the past there have been these efforts to reassemble planes after crashes in lieu of finding the black box. if they find the black box, do you think there is a need to bring the plane to the surface? or would they leave it there at ...

Seabed would be difficult. the chances of everything being there on the seabed nice and neatly is fairly thin. until they find anything on the seabed. the big problem so far is they found nothing. there is no, not one piece of a 777 has turned up. so until they find something, it's hard to say what they will do next. finding the black box may or may not, even if they find it, it may not answer the questions. we're assuming that the black box will be the panacea, it will tell us what happened. it may not and which case you know, looking at the profiles, the passengers, the big question is, was ...

Frequency is significant in this particular situation. we have all kinds of resources with us here this morning to walk us through what's happening. >> we have jim clancy in kuala lumpur and former inspector general with the u.s. transportation department mary schiavo and simon boxall the oceanographer. we have all of the resources used by scientists and military that would emit signals. that it is 37.5 is significant in this conversation. >> we need to confirm they have measured it correctly and there are other standard pingers. pingers are tuned to this frequency. this is a compromise betwee...

Giving a false signal. and it will take -- it could take some hours, or even a day, for one or two of those ships to get onsite to focus in on what the signal >> for those joining us around the world, we have jim clancy in kuala lumpur and former inspector general mary schiavo here with us as well and simon boxall, who is an oceanographer. reported by chinese xinhua, a news agency. i want to be clear about what they are reporting here, a pulse detected. a pulse signal in the south indian ocean at 37.5 kilohertz. we learned from our richard quest, that is the frequency in which the pinger, we h...