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Been a significant lead in the search for the missing aircraft. as stated by the joint agency coordinating center in perth earlier today, the towed pinger locator deployed from "hmas ocean shield" has detected signals consistent with those emitting by aircraft black boxes. while they may be a step closer to us finding mh-370, there are still many steps to be taken before we can positively verify that these signals are from mh-370. this morning, prime minister razis rezak had a call from prime mi...

The signal was also sustained he says for up to two hours. what does that mean? can you explain? >> thats what you would think would happen. if youre relatively close to the pinger on the path of the locater theyre towing behind the vehicle, you would find you would be far away and moving at a knot, maybe two naughts. youre picking it up. you pass over the top or adjacent to it and you pull the sled past and start to lose the signal. at the speeds the ship is moving, at the ranges that the pinge...

Acoustic noise being pursued by the australian defense vessel, ocean shield in the current location. i stated that the ocean shield would be delayed from going to approximate area where 101 detected signals continuing her own investigations. today, i can report some very encouraging information which has unfolded as of the last 24 hours the ping lobing indicator deployed from the australian defense vessel ocean shield detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes. two se...

Talk, the malaysian defense minister recently went on the reported issuing a firm denial of what he called the extraordinary assertion that the government was somehow complicit in the crash of mh flight be 70. ill talk to one expert next hour who says the detection of those pinging sounds coming from the ocean could be that haystack. thats ahead on the next hour of newsroom. [ laughter ]

Here. let me see if i can get it up. it is a device made for shallow water work. its designed for a diver to go in at a few hundred feet and look for a pinger, look for some kind of emitting device in the water. so if you go forward and you think about this, youre putting this in the water. youre hoping you get a strong enough signal deep in the ocean. it is very low probability that you would actually see that. its not impossible, but its really a glimmer of hope you would say. given the strong...

The problem right now is the sound propagates through the ocean so they dont have any real knowledge about where exactly that is. as you look at the time and difficulty of putting the blue fin 21 down the water, you want a very good understanding of where that ping would be. >> lets just go on the second detection that lasted only 13 or so minutes. then there was this double ping going on, which many people say is terrific, because theres two, two boxes that were looking for, flight data and coc...

Very, very high-tech equipment here. and also, we cant discount the fact that they heard this sound for a two-hour block. thats a long period of time. what the chinese were talking about, 90 seconds. the manufacturer, himself, said if this pinger is working, its continuously pinging. its not going to ping for two seconds and then stop. so thats probably why theyre weighing more heavily on what the ocean shield is. >> the chinese detection capabilities were minuscule compared to what the u.s. has...

The second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes. on this occasion, two distinct pinger returns were audible. significantly, this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. clearly, this is the most promising lead. and probably in the search so far, its the -- its probably the best information that we have had. and, again, i would ask all of you to treat this information cautiously and responsibly until su...

He didnt answer the question about what we have heard from other government officials there, that this was intentional on behalf of who was flying the aircraft. >> it was sort of a non denial denial there, nic. he did not deny that it skirted indonesia. he said indonesian radar did not pick up anything, which, of course, wasnt really the question there. just to bring everyone up to speed on the developments that have been happening over the last couple hours here. an australian naval vessel towi...

Far in water. so once they heard that detection, they went ahead, lowered the pinger locator to a better depth, about 1400 meters or so. there, they had pretty solid contact for about two hours. so that was call for optimism. were cautiously optimistic, though. since that two-hour time period, we did turn around on a reciprocal course, drop the depth down to 3,000 or so meters, thats really where we would expect to hear the black box if its down there. and really only had exact for another 15 mi...