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To have the head of this search joined, but angus houston did join, and as always, provided us some great information. he says were going to continue to search, look for another ping, as long as possible, before putting us a submersible on the ocean floor. thats it for us tonight. im don lemon. thanks for watching. good night. all eyes are on sonar scopes and ears are directed to a much more focused area. now that after sounds were heard in two locations, several hundred miles apart over the wee...

Believes its possible the plane could have basically gone underwater intact? >> its like hitting concrete. when that hit the water, this wasnt a sully sullenberger type a landing. this went in at a pretty decent angle. it went in but broke apart. it just could not hit that water without coming apart. >> who gets access to those two -- lets say they find the flight data and the cockpit voice recorders. who should get access to inexpect i inexpect it? >> i think its going to have to be the people ...

Beacon coming from the flight data and the cockpit voice recorders without spotting any wreckage at all? >> i think somebody in the search area organization knows something that we dont know. i suspect perhaps a small seismic event when the plane hit the water might have been recorded on a very precise seismic recorder, would pinpoint a location. in addition, with the current tables they have in that area, im sure given the location they could say if a plane crashed here, the debris would be at ...

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...

The black boxes pinger has a roughly 30-day battery life and that means it could stop transmitting a signal anytime now. jon: david piper is streaming live from bangkok, thailand. david, we have had plenty of false alarms before. how credible are these latest reports of sounds being detected underwater? >> reporter: hi, jon. yes, lots of false leads and a lots of wasted time. the australians are being very cautious but theyre described it as a promising lead. perhaps the key to their statement t...

That we are very close to where we need to be. and it just so happens that pings are the very reason why. since friday, australias ocean shield vessel and a chinese ship have picked up pings, albeit, 370 miles apart. the chinese team heard fleeting pings on friday and saturday, but they were using some gear that is not particularly designed for deep ocean searches. the australians, however, are using gear from the u.s. navy, particularly designed for the kind of search that were in at this point...

But i want to bring in some of your experience here because its kind of an interesting point. you are what is known with the ntsb office. what exactly does that position entail? >> the u.n. specialists look at the underlying cause for human error. i was the ntsbs first, actually, they changed the name to human performance, but i was an aviation expert. sometimes we do a psychological autopsy, but often after we look at the recorders, the flight data will help you what happened. tippic ily we loo...

True with these underwater sound as well. >> australians not using the word pulse but instead an acoustic noise that ship may have picked up. thanks so much, will. appreciate that. i want to bring in sonar expert arnold carr president at american search and survey. mr. carr helped find ss portland in 1989 and was involved in the twa flight 800 recovery. mr. carr that british ship due to arrive at any moment well see, at an area where the pulses were detected according to the chinese vessel. we u...

And investigators now say since the water is so deep, sound could be traveling in an unusual way. another ships 300 nautical miles from this spot also picked up pulse signals today. so that could represent another lead. but without the flight data and voice recorders, family members of the 239 people on board flight 370 dont have any closure. so many have been looking for comfort at ceremonies like the one you see on your screen right now. thats a buddhist ritual that attracted 10,000 people. ...

After them. and of course, the infamous conservative groups that were started and the government went after them, the irs, lois lerner. so, a lot more tonight. stay tuned. we have new developments in the search for the missing malaysian plane. a signal by the same frequency emitted by flight data recorders reportedly detected in the indian ocean. well have a live report coming up. plus, football players at northwestern university told they can unionize. how this decision could impact push to...