Australian officials leading the operation say they are worth investigating and ships are on the way to the area now. Several other objects turned out to be Fishing Equipment and trash. One escapable fact on everyones mind, the battery life on the flight recorder pingers is running out. Theres only about a week left. Because of that critical deadline, an australian ship carrying a pinger locater and other search equipment leaves for the zone in several hours, expected to arrive there thursday. Australias Prime Minister says search crews are prepared for challenges ahead. Frankly this government wont rest until weve done everything we reasonably can to give those families and Wider Community of the world a little more peace and insight into exactly what happened. So there have been lots of objects in the indian ocean but not expected to Malaysian Airlines 370. Why not . I want to bring in rob Mccollum Ocean specialist and expedition leader. So there have been 10 planes searching today.
Flight 370s black boxes. Sounding more sure than ever, saying this plane will be found. Is it time to dive down for a look . Not so fast, the searchers have an unmanned sub at the ready to go down there. Why are they in no hurry to launch it . Welcome back to the lead. Im jack tapper. National lead, it aperiod a student turned whatever is troubling him into trouble for everyone. Were expecting officials to update us on the rampage inside a pittsburgh Area High School that was carried out not with a gun, as weve seen so often in the country, but with a knife. Rather, a pair of knives. At least 20 victims stabbed, some horribly, that they are clinging to life at this hour. Almost all of them fellow students. Two people remain in Critical Condition, others have been released. The suspect, a 16yearold sophomore is in police custody. Authorities and cnn not identifying him at this time because hes a juvenile. Whatever his motive might have been is a mystery now. In a moment, hear from a fel
resources. reporter: the many governments engaged in the search already own these assets, including ships and planes. one way to look at this, at least, as an extended high-stakes training exercise. joe johns, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. how will cost factor into the next stage of the search for flight 370? bring back our panel. mary schiavo, rob mccollum, captain bob gurley and bob francis, welcome back. there is reportedly a massive insurance policy on the malaysian airlines as well. we understand somewhere in the realm of about $1 billion. and in what way will this money be used, perhaps, mary, to help reimburse some of these dozens of countries that have invested hundreds of thousands, if not millions? well, technically there are several different policies on the aircraft. there s a liability policy, usually about $1 billion, to cover the losses of the
if you want to hone the beam right in tight, you don t cover as much area but you get very, very good images. and so at the moment, i think there s a call for more wide ranging sonar so that we cover as much seafloor as possible. all right. rob mccollum, thanks. captain van gurley and mary schiavo. thanks so much. we ll talk later on in this hour as well. all right, so much more to this very challenging search in the southern indian ocean. we ll explore that, next.