risk-free for 60 days and get this document shredder free, a $29 value when you use promo code ready. call now. welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m george howell. one year after it vanished loved ones of those on board flight mh 370 are still holding out hope the plane can be found. many are still frustrated the searchers haven t found the trace of the plane or its passengers or crew. they re hoping for some insight when authorities release an interim report of the investigation on sunday the first anniversary of the plane s
we don t know what happened to. we need to know what happened. and all i want, you know, my number one kwish for 2015 is to bring pauley home to myself and our boys. well, searchers haven t found any remains of flight 370. officials believe it went down in the southern indian ocean after veering thousands of kilometers off course. still to come here on cnn. it has been a year now since the arrest of threealg prisoners. and the money rolls in for the interview. well, that was close. you ain t lyin . let quicken loans help you save your money.
take some time to figure out. michael holmes is live in perth, australia, with the latest on the search. michael, why do they think now is the right time to switch from listening for this box to looking for it? reporter: well, victor, as we ve been reporting all along, those black boxes, the pingers on them have a shelf life, if you like, of 30 days minimum. well, we re at day 38 now, and what the searchers have decided is those four pings that they did get is probably all they re going to get. we re at day 38. the pingers are probably dead now, so they ve moved on to the next phase. kind of expected this to happen. the bluefin-21, that submersible, was expected to be going down today. it s about 4:30 in the afternoon here. haven t heard yet any confirmation that it has gone down. as you mentioned, it s a tedious process. it covers about 15 square kilometers in a 24-hour period. it s 2 hours down, 16 hours on the deck, 2 hours up and then 4 hours to download the data and
what he had to say about the developments. [ speaking foreign language ] now, this man says i care about the new development and news every day, but this kind of development is not what i care about the most. my wife was on the plane, he says. as a family member, what i care about the most is concrete developments, like finding floating debris and where the passengers are. and this is a theme that we ve heard over and over from the relatives over the past couple of weeks. the relatives, the families, even though they hear about encouraging leads, they want something much more specific. now, victor, my colleagues down in kuala lumpur also reached out to some relatives, and our correspondent, sunima udas, spoke with the mother of the flight s chief seward and said the fact that searchers haven t heard pings for about six days makes her very sad. she also said only evidence will release us, our sadness is now just prolonged. she says, i cannot express what
know, 15 square miles, say. but when you think about it this way, it s like looking for, when you talk about a black box, imagine looking for, let s say a laptop computer, in manhattan in the dark, and it might be under a couple of meters of silt. so, it s a huge operation that they re just starting now. it should be down any time now. we haven t been told that it s been dropped into the water yet, but we were told it would happen today. it s what, 4:00 in the afternoon here now. one other headline out of that, christine was that in the next two or three days, angus houston said they re going to pretty much give up on the surface and air efforts to look for debris. they ve been looking, of course, for weeks now, a few hundred miles west of where they re looking for the aircraft itself, haven t found anything, and they re probably going to wind that down in the next couple of days. you mentioned the oil slick. it could be something. it might not be. they ve taken 2 liters of this oil fr