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Ping is likely to be ruled out, searchers are still encouraged by the fact that theyve picked up four confirmed signals. that they do believe may be from the so-called black box on flight 370. >> but the point we keep coming to and that we have to stress is finding them and retrieving them are two very different things. >> yeah. >> george howell has more. >> reporter: once youve found a need in a haystack, how do you extract it? thats what investigators are up against in the search for flight 37...

If the pilot got it wrong he would have a bit of fuel in the tanks to be able to go around and retry it again. were talking about a highly unlikely scenario, but never the less we dont have enough evidence to rule it out or confirm it so were stuck in the middle ground. >> we are stuck until they find -- michaels right. its the what, the when, and the why. the why, i safely suggest, can be left to another day even though its fascinating. but its the what. >> has it ever been done that its possib...

Im optimistic that we will find the aircraft or what is left of the aircraft. in the not too distant future. >> now this marks the fourth time the signals have been detected. the first two over the weekend. the u.s. navy captain in charge of the pinger locator on that australian ship agrees a lot more methodical painstaking searching needs to be done but at least now they are narrowing in. >> i say we are more confident that we found the haystack. >> the next step is to let down the blue fz fin-...

Verge and relatively close to finding it. is that your bottom line? >> my bottom line is were in the right hay stack and now we have to work our way through. we will go from passive to active mode, actually using sonar to provide images of the sea floor. >> thanks very, very much. we will stay on top of this story for all of our viewers. also another important story were following, an auultimatumn ukraine. we have u.s. options in ukraine. the defense secretary has just spoken. standby. throwing ...

>> what i dont understand if they already have, you know, more than two hours of these pings that went up in volume and then reduced in volume which indicated they were getting closer then farther away they have a sense of the coordinates of this. if they dont find, hear any more pings dont they have good enough location that they can send in these under water vehicles? >> already, anderson they cut down the size of the haystack to something manageable. what they would like to do is get it down ...

Theres no debris floating in this area? because this is like, you know, finding the needle before you find the haystack, really, if this is, indeed the black boxes. >> no, it doesnt concern me. given that were 30 days into this, i wouldnt expect to see surface debris in this area. but having spent enough time now, and having acquired the signal twice, which i think is very reassuring to us, that we pick a signal up and then we manage to reacquire the signal on a reciprocal course, that gives us ...

Quest. im excited to talk to you about this, mr. mirs. lets assume that the pings that, you know, have been picked up and towed with this pinger locator are the black boxes. and you led the expedition that found the hmas sidney, which sunk in 1949, very near the area where the "ocean shield" detected the pings. what can you tell us about the challenges of working in those types of waters? >> well, our challenge was similar to this one, in that it was first finding the wreck. sydney was one of th...

So they will keep listening at least for you now. >> using that technology at this point when they dont know where the location is would be even more than a needle in a haystack. lets turn to ukraine. thanks so much, will. to ukraine where at this hour, things are certainly heating up. russias foreign ministry is warning that any use of force in eastern ukraine could lead to civil war. >> and just moments ago, john kerry weighed in on this escalating crisis. he said russian forces and special ...

Haystack, but at that stage we didnt even know which haystack. i think weve got a much clearer picture around the areas we need to concentrate on. and those will be the areas that will be associated with both the search on the surface and the debris search by aircraft today. >> all right. thank you very much, commander. we appreciate your taking the time. commander mcevoy. and richard quest, as you just saw is with me. here is the question. as you just raised the point, there has been no evidenc...

Water search and rescue expert. also back with me, mr. richard quest. im excited to talk to you about this, mr. mirs. lets assume that the pings that, you know, have been picked up and towed with this pinger locator are the black boxes. and you led the expedition that found the hmas sidney, which sunk in 1949, very near the area where the "ocean shield" detected the pings. what can you tell us about the challenges of working in those types of waters? >> well, our challenge was similar to this on...