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Also the batteries in these pingers are only supposed to last 30 days. We of course are at day 32. Are those pings really from flight 370s black boxes or are they from Something Else entirely . And, two weeks after Airline Officials told families that all lives on 370 were lost, the face of the malaysia jan investigation said miracles do happen. Are the malaysians fostering a sense of false hope . Good evening everyone im jake tapper. Welcome to this special primetime edition of the lead. There are no timeouts left as we speak, a u. S. Team aboard an australian Ship Operating the key tool in t...

30 bodies have been pulled from the java sea. Technicians onland have identified four of the bodky kyyies and the search is roughly the size of the state of delaware. Lets get the latest from surabaya indonesia, where many families are gathered awaiting news. Andrew stevens is there, hi andrew. Hi carol. The line here today is that search frustrations continue just because the weather remains very very bad. Its slightly better than yesterday, i should add, but conditions are described as challenging so the actual visual part of this search has just basically proved to be impossible. Where they...

>> well we have word from local reports over in indonesia that parts of the tail were found. of course, that's where the black boxes are. so that should give us all hope right, thomas? >> well yeah this is a relatively shallow water recovery or search-and-recovery. and given that it's that finding the pieces is going to happen. this is not like mh-370. the tail section is the critical section. if they found those pieces, the time it will take femme more tome able to get to the black boxes should be pretty rapid. >> mary i wanted to ask you about this. take a look at these pictures. these photo...

Downloading is like downloading a computer disk and it looks like an ekg. what takes longer on that is to decipher it all and get the significance of what was found. but think have a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder within a couple days after finding it. >> and thomas last question for you. i know they want to bring up as much of the plane as possible. how long might that take? >> well, that's very hard to estimate. it really depends as i think was stated earlier how wide the debris field is and what the fuselage and the tail section and such look like. if it's relatively intact they c...

Washington this morning. thank you. i want to talk more about the search for flight 8501 with former inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation mary schiavo, i'm also joined by thomas altschuler the vice president of teledine marine system which is helps locate planes. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thomas i want to start with you because your company makes an underwater suv that might be used in this search. can you tell us more about that? >> so what we manufacture is an autonomous underwater vehicle that's very similar to the type of vehicle that w...