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Hms echo is in the area to check that out. two other sounds were picked up in other areas. there is a news conference going on. theyre doing preliminary introductions with a were going to hear is captain, were going owe to hear chief coordinator air chief angus marshal houston, retired. this has promising news, mr. houston warned people being careful moving forward they want to make sure all facts are on the table. saying the strevength of the signals have not been linked to flit 370. lets hear ...

I just dont -- its hard to get. >> im going with hes got some information. just a gut feeling. >> we all hope and pray. >> i wanted to touch on a real serious consideration that richard said with reference to the chinese holding back on the technology they have with reference to pauls expertise. is it possible -- why would the hms echo be going over there. just a question of mine, if the chinese ship had more technology than theyre snowing just a question. it could be that they want to verify th...

Data? >> the signal. the data of the signal from the chinese ship and then analyzed it by the other experts? second, any condition is needed to be fulfilled before you draw the conclusion, i mean the confirmation. the third one is when you can draw the conclusion. >> well the process is one of, you know, verification. and essentially the information has been passed through the chinese authorities to the australian authorities with a request to do further investigation of the acoustic detection. ...

>> we seem to have lost nbcs katy tur on the phone there for us. >> reporter: hey, craig, craig, craig. >> we have you back. i have you. thank you. keep going. >> reporter: im sorry. one more time. so the pulse from the black box, 37.5 kilohertz, gives off that frequency because nothing else in the ocean sounds quite like that and why the chinese hopeful it could be it. a lot of skepticism of experts saying the chinese dont have the technology to find that. thats why hms echo rushed to the scene...

Right now a british navy survey ship in the area of the indian ocean where a chinese ship detected underwater signals. this could be a lead for flight 370. theres serious concern about the equipment that detected the pulses. here is cnns report. >> reporter: we now know more about the equipment used when the pinging sound was reportedly detected. we spoke to the company that makes it. they tell us divers can use it or it can be used hand-held from the surface like the chinese are doing in this v...

Pings. some promising leads from ocean shield and chinese. i think the important thing of what he said, time and again, is we will investigate every event. weve got a transmission. we must investigate it. >> that was richard after this news conference about four hours ago. now the hms echo is ten hours from the area where the chinese picked up underwater pings so it can investigate further. the most difficult search every in mystery, how australias prime minister describes this race to find flig...

These acoustic events. so in response to this new informations are the search team deploying the search vessel "echo" expected to arrive in 14 hours and the "ocean shield" is about 24 hours away in another area. houston saying that vessel is detecting a separate, third acoustic event and will complete that investigation before perhaps joining the "hms echo." clearly significant developments but houston clearly stating at the moment this is raw data that needs to be investigated, that needs to be...

Investigating in their area. these guys take a lot of time in determining where to put their assets and had they just dont want to move these ships because it takes a day or two at a time to move them to certain areas and they would lose that valuable search time. so theyve got something still to investigate where they were before but they still want to investigate the latest information that they had from the chinese. >> tom, we know the "hms echo," the british royal navy vessel should be there...

Were going to see winds anywhere from 10 to 20 miles per hour. maybe gusting up to 30 on the south end as that tropical cyclone passes. right within that search area, winds are going to be pretty decent at 10 to 20 miles per hour over the next two or three days. good news there. >> fairly good conditions. appreciate that. thanks so much, jennifer. 13 ships and a dozen planes are trolling the search zone with some headed to the area where that chinese ship detected pulse signals. joining us now f...

Chinese ship heard two pulse signals under water. to the north an australian ship picked up what officials are calling an acoustic noise, 350 miles between them. cnns jennifer gray has more. >> reporter: a lot has been going on over the past month with search areas, new certainly areas. weve been talking about this. were going to try to put it in perspective now the chinese felt like they heard that ping. lets start with the arc, the blue line. that was the original arc. it give a lot of insight...