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It started off the north coast there of australia. it moved there into very warm water south of jakarta and became a very big storm. this is a picture of that. this is a monster hurricane cyclone. as big as we see in america. biggest cyclone in this water in four years. and the waves were 12 to 14 feet right over where, now, the pings are. we were looking down here. we weren't worried about this. we talked about it, said it will make some waves. we were looking way down here at the time. we're talking about four footers off of this. we weren't worried about it. you talk about this thing being ...

Area. so the towed pinger locater, the thing we've put in the water just earlier yesterday, can only search about a mile away for a location. until we have some indication where the plane might have gone or have we seen some surface debris, it wouldn't have done a whole lot of water. >> the black box batteries were due for overhauls in 2012, never returned to the manufacturer. if that is the case and the batteries are dead, will they be able to find the black boxes? >> the pinger locater will only work if the black box is activity sends out a ping. it's a passive listening device. it just list...

Other organizations and corporations to do these estimates, they've kind of predicted where they think the aircraft was tracking right before it was lost. so that -- >> this is the 250 kilometer track, i understand, within that 84,000 nautical square mile area of the search zone, correct? >> that's correct. what we've done is gone ahead and positioned the ships along that track. and the australian defense vessel "ocean shield" is going to track down the course that we think that the aircraft was on at the time of loss. am i confident it will work? it's better than searching nowhere. it's the b...

Several hours into tonight include little rock, memphis, and just south of st. louis. president obama and the first lady just wrapped up an event welcoming olympic and paralympic athletes to the wlous. they all represented the u.s. delegation this year in sochi. speaking of russia, it will also be a topic of a meeting with house and senate leaders this evening. stocks are near lows for the day as stocks anticipate march job reports. economists expect something in the neighborhood of 200,000 jobs were created, decent, but below the blockbuster month. jared bernstein will be here tomorrow to...

What we're trying to find is an acoustic emission from one of the pingers on the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder. typically, these last -- the batteries last for 30 days. usually they last a little bit longer, and that's what we're trying to find. but what is critical is that the teams that are out there searching for the surface debris, they get good position data on that, and they feed it back to the oceanographers to help us determine a probable point of impact for where the aircraft went in. >> you heard captain matthews there. we're living on borrowed time in the search...