hate. the tsa and ticket fees. add them together. what is it that s prompting them to ask for more? reporter: the agency backed by democrats in the senate wants to increase the security fee everyone pays for the ticket. from $2.50 a flight to $5 per one-way ticket. $10 round trip. 10 s pushing it to a limit. i guess it s only $5 more but i wonder, you know, how that fits in. they already have a budget. reporter: tsa s budget is set to be cut. the agency says boosting this fee would help cover the increasing price of security like the costly scanners. the fee hasn t been hiked in ten years. but a powerful lobby is pushing against it. airlines. they don t want the cost shifted onto their customers. air security is a national security function and something all of us need to be behind as americans, and the government should be picking up the cost. reporter: many travelers we talked to didn t mind. it s like using a toll road. you use a toll road you pay the toll.
u.s. is not alone in puming back resources. india and thailand have done that partly because of the cost of the search. look at the last similar search, $40.5 million, that is the cost of just six days of hunting for the downed air france flight that famously was lost in 2009. and in that case they actually had a targeted search area and pretty short time frame before they found wreckage. no such luck in either case here. let s get the latest on where the search stands and the investigation stands from nbc news correspondent kerry sanders. thank you so much for joining us. as you talk about the pullback of the uss kidd, the u.s. is moving its aircraft, a p8, down towards australia, if we go to the map here. i ll show you as we look at the map, this area here to the west of australia is now a central