indian ocean. hopefully that record stands and this one is more shallow water. thank you for the perspective. david, thanks for explaining the difference in the search zone for the debris versus for the black box. that is confusing. kate? let s turn to a really horrible scene on a california interstate. ten people, half of them high school seniors, killed in a fiery crash. the students were on their way to visit a college together in northern california when a semi truck collided head-on with their charter bus. both buses, both vehicles erupted in flames. stefani elam is live in california with more on this horrible story. good morning. good morning, kate. it is a devastating accident. besides those five high school students that have died, three were adult chaperones that are v. died and both drivers of the vehicle. still at this point no one knows what was the cause to start this accident in the first place.
you know, a couple of thoughts on those sonobuoys. they re designed to chase soviet submarines. they were either ideally suited for much lower frequency. so the fact that they were even able to tweak them in such a way to detect this higher we frequency of 37.5 kilohertz is, you know, a technological accomplishment and we should give them credit for it. i think that s why we got to be careful about the data that comes out of it. the other thing is, any time you hear a politician talking about an accident and the technicalitys of it, i would make sure you have a certain degree keep the grain of salt handy. put it that way. that s a good point. almost as soon as you said that angus houston said we have had no breakthrough. just so everyone is clear. son some level. i want to get your takes on the lack of debris field still. from your experience, mary, the fact that we still have not we ve now narrowed the search area for the ping, the black box down significantly, we still
well, in that crash the black box was picked up from 16,000 feet under the indian ocean. and that accident was south african airways. it was a long time ago. it was 87 but they didn t find any wreckage at first either. they were looking to the east of the crash zone and, in fact, the currents took it to the west. and so they had a mystery there on their hands as well. and in that case they didn t get any pings. they had a very good idea where it went into the water, however, and with two days with the submersibles, within two days they had a black box. but they had a really good idea of where it went in. they just didn t have any wreckage because they looked the wrong place. so there are many similarities. the black box was fine from 16,000 feet under water. and they were indeed at the right place when they sent the submersibles in. maybe that s the sent narrow here. that holds the record, by the way, deepest undersea recovery from the black box was from the
opportunities. cnn s stefanie elam is live in california with the latest. the images are just horrific. stefanie. they really are, kate. and if you take a look at the bus which is still here on the highway, on interstate 5, you can take a look at it. it s almost impossible to believe that anyone survived. we do know that a lot of people did survive. but at the same time, the loss of life is very huge. we lost ten people here. there were nine that died on scene. one that died at the hospital. of those people, five were high school students and three were adult chaperones on the bus and then the driver of the fedex truck that hopped over the median also dying and driver of the bus. they do not know what went wrong or why they would have had this xw accident in the first place. the ntsb is coming here to investigate that. the other passengers on the bus are expected to be okay. they do not think the number of deaths will go beyond ten.
happened the night that pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend. now, court grinding to a halt again at one point when pistorius broke down. a statewide florida man hunt is over this morning with the suspect in a deadly hit and run accident now in custody. corchado turned himself in a day after he rear-ended a car and sent it crashing into a day care center. a 4-year-old girl was killed. 13 other children and one adult were injured. four children remain hospitalized this morning. one in critical condition. chris? just terrible. at least now they know who they re dealing with and what it is. john, appreciate the news. let s take a break here on new day. when we come back, with every fresh lead there s fresh hope and anguish for the families of flight 370. how are they handling this roller coaster? we re bog going to speak with t partner of one of the flight s american passengers and why she believes the jet is being intentionally hidden, when we