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Caution show cautiously optimistic. the task now the ocean shield is trying to find the signal again and hoping for confirmation. if the ping is detected again crews will launch this underwater drone. at the same time 375 miles away, chinese ships and the british hms echo are trying to confirm pings the chinese briefly detected friday and saturday. australian officials say its unlikely to be from the same source. >> quite possible for sound to travel great distances laterally but be very difficu...

Quite frankly, so they are both concerned in the job theyre doing, but they are all still hurting during this whole process, too. nic robertson, thanks. >> speaking of hurting, the families, meanwhile, still waiting for answers a month after flight 370 disappeared. many gathered in beijing overnight for this somber vigil. pauline chiou has been with the families for weeks. pauline, whats the feeling today? >> reporter: well, john, very somber, as you say. none of these relatives ever expected to...

Focused area. now that after sounds were heard in two locations, several hundred miles apart over the weekend. sounds that might, might be sonar locator ping from the 777 flight data and voice box recorders. they are trying to pick them up again. if they are from the plane and not a false hope they might be dying pings. batteries dont last forever. flight 370 has been missing for almost 30 days. flight 370 may have taken a route into the indian ocean after it made the baffling turn. this flight ...

Literally. also why would they fly right across malaysia if the goal was to avoid radar. malaysia has radar too and this is a primary target. they dont know what it is without a transponder on it. i wonder if this was an effort to make it difficult for people to use cell phones by staying over water. thats an option as well. >> mary, how about you? youre skeptical about this flight path mostly because you dont think indonesia has the ability to say 100% the plane didnt cross its airspace. how so...

Necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a mid-air explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa800 as it climbed to 14,000 feet leaving new york, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless search to find all the parts. weiss says the same thing could be true if malaysia air exploded or caught on fire. >> because that fire would have lasted for a bit of time in a cargo department, perhaps could have gone through the aircraft and thin...

Debris field. >> remember, that water was very, very choppy. it would take some of the pieces and wash it away and some of it would absolutely -- it would have broken it up in lots of different areas and it would have just thrown it really all around. >> reporter: still, that does not necessarily create a wide debris field. for that, a midair explosion is a more likely cause. investigators say when a fuel tank erupted on twa flight 800, the result was three separate debris fields and a tireless ...

Presentation on a big screen of the flight path of the plane, from 12:41 a.m., when the plane had taken off from kuala lumpur all the way until 8:19 a.m., when that partial ping was detected by the satellite. now, these family members stayed together during these 7 1/2 hours. they prayed, they cried, they meditated. they draw strength from each other. and one relative explains how difficult the past couple of weeks have been. >> a months passed, and we are just going through so many, so many kin...

Done without finding any wreckage thus far, and i think its quite, quite extraordinary and while i would like to see now us find some wreckage because that will, that will basically help solve the mystery. >> reporter: but the pings picked up by the australians werent the only ones detected. a chinese ship said it too briefly detected electronic pulses. but those came from a different search area all together, 300 nautical miles from the australian find. chinese television showed images of the c...

Because from looking at the radar and all of the other information they have, it seems pretty clear that someone did quite a good and skillful job of trying to avoid radar along the indonesia coast. >> joe johns, thank you very much. appreciate that. i want to bring in now jeffrey thomas, hes the editor and chief of airlineratings.com. also, mike dean, a deputy director for salvage and diving for the u.s. navy. and forensic audio expert, paul ginsburg, who analyzes black box recordings. and of c...

Be coming from. but as we already pointed out, it doesnt mean there really was crime. >> and thats exactly what they do. they go through different scenarios. mary schiavo, you want to discuss more of this -- this flight path of avoiding indonesian airspace? what can this tell us if they were in fact doing that? >> well, again, its the same information that we had on day one, but now someones put a different explanation on it. and the explanation helps fill in some of the holes, but like we have ...