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Day, so let me ask you this. do you think president obama should go to congress and get some sort of affirmation for whatever he does? he doesn't probably constitutionally need to. would you like to see him do that? >> i think it clearly depends on what course of action that he chooses. as you indicated, there is a significant ramping up of intelligence activities for our benefit as much as for the benefit of the iraqi security forces. we have in the area moved a carrier battle group, we have surface ships, we have the military power, but until there's a clear sort of plan of action and until ...

There are other tools out there, rovs, auvs, and, of course, submersibles that have their depth limits that can be used in this particular circumstance in the right order and in the right fashion and only if we have tangible evidence of where to search. >> reporter: now we're learning resources are pulling out of search. the royal navy today says the hms tireless, the only submarine in the search, is done. saying there is no longer any prospect of detecting black box pings. and now one of the surface ships, the hms echo returning to port to refuel, leaving it out of the loop for now. and as fo...

Or change techniques, like using a towed underwater vehicle that could cover a larger area, but the passengers' families aren't convinced experts are doing everything they should. >> we'll keep going back to wanting to start over with the investigation. what they are doing now, searching in the ocean, is like continuing to try to bail out a boat when the hole in the boat hasn't even been found yet. >> meanwhile, surface ships continue scouring the seas for wreckage, search planes were curtailed today. it's the second time a major storm like this has torn through this area since the malaysian p...

Submarine, the "hms tireless," they've got two surface ships, an australian and british one as well, the australian one carrying u.s. technology, which is designed specifically to try and track down underwater pings from black box flight recorders, such as the one that would have been carried on the malaysian 370 -- sorry, the malaysian airliner, rather, that's now missing. it's moved under water, the search, but they're still emphasizing the search from the skies as well. there are still a number of aircraft, at least 14 aircraft in the skies, in fact, trying to look for some sign of the debr...

>> all right, stay with us throughout the morning. we're going to bring you the latest breaking developments on this tragic shooting at ft. hood. now to australia, where planes and ships are out again this morning hunting for malaysia airlines flight 370. the search area moving slightly to the west, some 1,000 miles from perth, as crews try again to find any identifiable debris from this jet. the malaysian prime minister, he is now in australia. he insists they will figure out what happened. senior international correspondent matthew chance is live in perth for us this morning. matthew, how ...