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Matthew, on the one hand, the searchers must be very encouraged by hearing the pings this weekend. on the other hand, by many estimates, the batteries in the pinger should have already run out. do they feel like theyre closing in? >> reporter: yeah, i think theres a sense, or the at least there was 24 hours ago, when this announcement was made, that theyre making good progress. of course, theyre being very cautious, saying that they havent found the aircraft yet. but they did describe these two ...

Direction. is that also your assumption? >> so what were basically looking at now is effectively two different types of search. the one that is going on under the surface, as youve discussed with respect to the detection of the black boxes and also trying to locate a debris field as well. as part of the search operations that have been going on for the last few weeks, a number of aircraft have been dropping marker beacons. now, anything that is sitting at the bottom of the ocean will be subject ...

Back up pinger noises that may no longer have any functioning batteries. our coverage of this search for flight 370 is going to start once again this hour with erin mclaughlin life from perth, australia. erin? >> kate, thats right. they have not found any debris from the missing plane nor have they been able to reacquire that signal. but there has been absolutely no let up in this search. today all eyes on that australian vessel. the ocean shield still out there equipped with the american towed ...

Ocean shield. >> the first detection was held for approximately two hours and 20 minutes. the ship then lost contact, the second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes. >> reporter: the detection about a mile apart in water more than 14,000 feet deep. on one occasion two separate pings were heard which only heightened the excitement because the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder ping separately. >> this is a most promising lead. >> reporter: but weve h...

Vulnerabilities hes doing, what they call opening the door to a lot of scrutiny and past. theres going to be a lot there. heating up now. lets take a break on "new day." when we come back, we have new information about flight 370s path. were going to test the reasons offered for why it may have taken that. did it deliberately fly around indonesian airspace to avoid detection of that? coming up what is the basis for that? uhhh. no, that cant happen. thats the thing, you dont know how long it ha...

Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. "hmas ocean shield" then lost contact while conducting a turn and attempting to reacquire the signal. the second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes. on this occasion, two distinct pinger returns were audible. significantly, as stated by angus houston, this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. separately, the chinese ship has also detected similar signals twice...

Required shelf life of these batteries. theres no guarantee how much longer they will last if they havent died already. but tonight, authorities are cautiously optimistic. theres still no wreckage, but there was a distinct sound coming from under water, and as we speak, they are trying to determine if its flight 370s black boxes. they havent been able to recapture that sound just yet. its the sound search teams have desperately been trying to find. and now they just may have. the pinger locator ...

Anti-clockwise and that can affect the material from the aircraft in different directions. that is three dimensional situation. and you have to keep in mind, you know, we are a few weeks in to the potential crash, and therefore lots of material can be in various directions. that is really the complexity that the ships are facing. >> you make it sound impossible and add on to the fact that its common knowledge now, we know more about the surface of mars and pick your planet than we do of our own ...

Would eliminate some of the hope that still of the family members have -- they do exist, some of these family members do have hope that there may be some survivors. we talked to a woman today that said this is a lead. a lead that may lead us closer to the truth of where the plane is, but we need confirmation. we are not sure yet. and we dont know if this is true or false. now, were approaching the one-month mark. and relatives later tonight are going to have a candlelight vigille. theyre going t...

The implication is that this was done intentionally. thats not a typical routing that awe would take. do you think thats the most likely scenario, that it had to be intentional if this was the path? >> well, again, if this was the path, yeah, i dont see any reason why it would have gone that way. theres no reason it would have stayed on the path, if it was a mechanical failure, lets say, that it would have continued on the flight path. but the idea that it took an intentional turn up north and t...