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Jason carroll took the recording to an audio expert to see what it might reveal. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: key to the investigation in the lapp shooting will not just -- lapd shooting will not be just what the officers did but what they said. paul ginsburg is a recorded evidence specialist. he has been in the listening business for 40 years. think of him as an audio archaeologist, a man who digs for sound. >> its a puzzle. each of my cases is a puzzle. >> reporter: first, listen to a portion of ...

It comes to vizsibilityvisibility if i can show you the radar, this is something very new now. as we get in close, the thunderstorms disperse. this is fabulous news right now. i mean, a birds-eye view is showing if we get sunlight, sea fog will burn off. this is the best news weve had in 24 hours. >> im very glad to see that. its interesting you point out that those thunderstorms, ceiling of 53,000 feet. this plane, the ceiling where it can fly is 40,000 feet. theres no getting above that storm....

analyst, a retired air force intelligence officer. audio expert paul ginsburg and former cia operative bob baer. i would like to start with you. there is been a stream of evidence coming from ukrainian intelligence. theyve been some of it with me. you have the phone call as the missile system was delivered. you have the video that popi was talking about. being sent back to russia after the plane was shot down and new photographs which well share with our viewers shortly that the ukrainians ha...

Continues to go in the vain it is, if you listen to the tape, you dont hear squeaking. im not a -- >> i like your audio there. that was nice. >> im not an audio expert. my friend was just up here, but if you, lets be honest here, ben ferguson, lets be real. >> well, i mean, again, look at this. you say its early on, i get that. lets remember, the largest settlement ever, by the justice department on discrimination of renting apartments, this was the guy, the biggest settlement of the time, ever....

Engine noise at impact and you are no further toward figuring out this mystery. thats my biggest concern, that after all this time, we may be left with that. >> yeah. you can probably hear, according to our audio expert, miles, you can probably hear which engine went out, if the rudder was shaking, that sort of thing. he said there are things you can learn just from the noises in the airplane but the best information will come from hey, we are having trouble, mayday, however. thats the best info...

They may not be synchronized, according to our audio expert here. were they the same sort of signal, or do you know? >> yeah, thats true. they would most likely not be synchronized. and they obviously were consistent with what we would expect from these black boxes. >> so youre getting both, you believe, cvr and fdr? >> thats the initial indication. but once again, without confirmation, real confirmation will come when we can get the side scan sonar out there down there and get an actual picture...

I want you to listen now to angus houston, what he said about detecting this information, and then you and i will talk with our panel of experts here. take a listen. >> ive heard the -- what we got is we got a visual indication on the screen. weve also got an audible signal. the audible signal sounds to me just like an emergency locator beacon. and what were talking about, there were two separate pingers. >> okay. so you hear what he said there? he said we have visual indication on the screen, w...

Boxes from the malaysian airlines plane. interestingly they were heard outside the search zone. another acoustic event was also detected by the australian ship ocean shield about 300 miles away. so i go now to my panel. paul ginsburg is an audio expert. and then paul, what are the words acoustic event mean to you? >> i was wondering why they use that term. i assume it means they werent sure. that there was something that could or could not have been the pinger. it may have been distorted as othe...

Board that ship, which is the ocean shield, which is an australian ship that is carrying a u.s. pinger locator, towing a u.s. pinger locator. turned off all the noise producing equipment, lowered their device to 1400 feet. and they said they got some stronger and then it faded out because they were moving away from it, which they said was encouraging. then they said they reeled it in and they did a course change. and then when they turned around, once they did the course change, they lowered it ...

Character information on trayvon martin, specifically that he smoked weed, that he liked to fight, he took pictures of fighting on his cell phone but if the prosecution opens the door to george zimmermans character, that stuff may come in later. >> reporter: nelson also ruled in favor of zimmermans defense by keeping the prosecutions audio expert from testifying that it was trayvon martins voice on recorded audio the night he was killed, a potentially crucial witness for the prosecution. >> it w...