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At least these next several days while we believe the two pinkers oig involved are still active. >> one of the many reasons they might not hear them is because the ocean is a noisy place. other sounds could be be drowning out any signals coming from the data recorders. rosa flores has become a bit of an oceanographer herself. what is going on causing the competing noises? >> i talked to several ocean engineers and we cant say its a loud place, but its definitely a noisy place. there are several ...

Youre watching cnn. im brooke baldwin. the u.s. navys tpl is scouring, and now a narrow section of the indian ocean. the search area is smaller thanks to the two possible black box pings which with are now guiding the search. so far, theyve been unable to find another ping. one of the reasons is the ocean is actually such a noisy place. other sounds under the surface could be drowning out any other signals coming from those key data recorders. flores took a pinger out on the water to show us som...

Burned. it can tell you a very complete story. >> reporter: metal arms and jaws are controlled by a joystick. >> you dont want to close the jaws. >> the black box is not a problem at all for an r.o.b. to put it in a basket and bring it back to the vessel. >> reporter: but before the data recorders are recovered, the wreckage must be located, a task as daunting as the indian ocean is deep. >> well be right back. im beth... and im michelle. and we own the paper cottage. its a stationery and gifts ...

The hunt for missing flight 370 now has a very promising lead. after weeks of frustrating dead end searches, officials say a pinger locator has detected two signals consistent with a planes flight voice and data recorders. the signals were picked up yesterday by a u.s. pinger locator thats being towed by the australian ship ocean shield in the indian ocean. the first was detected for more than two hours. now, when they turned around, the second detection lasted much shorter, about 13 minutes. bu...

And im sorry. we could be here all day. thank you very much for coming along. and, again, i stress we need to think about the families here. we have a promising lead but we have yet to get the confirming evidence. and that will be a long process. but we have been as open as we can be with you. were hiding nothing. and thats the circumstances as they stand right now. thank you very much. >> okay. so there you heard it. from the man in charge of this search, that they have picked up something that...

>> reporter: well, if theyre able to find that third acoustic event and actually deploy this underwater autonomous vehicle that they have, depth certainly a factor. houston in that press conference saying that 2.8 miles down is at the very limits of the capabilities of this autonomous vehicle, and if for some reason it doesnt work, theyll have to bring more assets capable of handling that kind of depth, and of course, that will take more time. christine? >> more time. all right, erin mclaughlin ...

At this point theyre in this limbo, don, that they just cannot get out of. don? >> everything now is a maybe, a possibly. weve heard this. weve got to check it out. we cant confirm. but are they -- are they at least encouraged by the arrival of the british ship that can map the ocean floor? >> well, certainly they want to have no effort spared on figuring out this mystery. because it has very real consequences for them and their families. there is a variety of reasons they want. one is emotional...

Its, yeah, just incredible. i have no idea how the terrain exactly will be, whether it will be caves or big mountains, but i think its going to be pretty flat. please dont quote me on that one, because we are more interested in the large-scale currents that are occurring over there. >> so, lets talk about those currents, eric. so, when were talking about trying to find the location of black boxes, data recorders, potential wreckage, and then were talking about trying to find any remnants of this...

They suspect these data recorders might be. >> authorities, as you know, will, theyre using words like encouraged, promising. theyre also urging caution, as you correctly point out. what will it actually take based on all the interviews youve been doing over there, for it to confirm the signals, the missing plane, those are signals in fact from the missing planes black boxes? >> sure, yes, without question, there is just a lot of work ahead. first of all, they need to get a lock on this signal a...

Th this there in kuala lumpur we have developments in the indian ocean that there could be pings that could be leading us to the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorders. if those recorders are found, a shot in the dark in trying to find them. if they are able to retrieve them will there be data to the very finish of this flight? >> potentially no. and thats a difficult thing for investigators even going into this. because they know that the data recorders, at least the voice recorder wh...