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With certainty that this is the final resting place of mh-370. >> you can hear it in his voice. they think this is a major development in the search for missing malaysia flight 370. the australian ship, "ocean shield," has picked up two more signals. lets talk about it. joining me, kr. in. nn aviation analyst, mary schiavo and jeff wise. we talked about this as a giant race against time. they needed to find this. today, it seems to me, there is a huge ship. it is no longer a race against time. t...

Over -- thats over 5,000 feet youre looking at. and then the titanic. this is wreckage theyve used some of these special vehicles that they will hopefully use this time around when they get there. the titanic was wreckage was discovered at over 12,000 feet. yet again, not even at the level what were talking about here. lets bring in jeff wise, cnn aviation analyst, to talk about this search today. it really shows you the perspective of what youre dealing with. its deeper than anything weve looke...

The salinity and the surface temperature. you might get a difference in temperature between a lower layer and an upper layer and a difference in salinity, in density. and this would affect the path of sound waves. and so the two ping signals could very well be coming from a signal source. and with all the errors adding up, they seem to be very far apart. but if youre going to look some place, this is sure a very good start. >> yeah. jeff, we are learning tonight that the pings detected by the "o...

But there are questions about exactly what they do mean. i want to bring in now our team of experts. bill nye, a former boeing engineer. mary schiavo, michael kay, jeff wise, the author of "extreme fear: the science of your mind in danger," jim tillman, a retired american airlines pilot. also, jeffrey thomas, editor and chief of airlineratings.com, and richard quest is back with me. why dont i start with you, richard. its been 32 days in this search. the most promising lead so far. but how promi...

Go to you. lets talk about the handling of the search by the australians. how do you think the australians are handling the search and the distribution of information? and again, what can we expect from this particular briefing? >> well, i think the australians have done a good job of releasing the information as its come in. i think they could perhaps be faulted to the degree to which they have cheerleaded the significance of the information, perhaps. from the very beginning when the australian...

Australians and the gacc are throwing assets at this. we heard from the australian defense minister 133 missions have occurred so far. thats over four missions a day. thats impressive and that should reassure the international community and their family and loved ones that theyre taking this very seriously. >> paul ginsburg, i hope thats not his satellite going out. do we have paul? >> yes. i would just like to hope that some day we will be uploading flight data to satellite, so that data does n...

Were awaiting for tonights news conference, live from perth. back with me now is geoffrey thomas, bill nye, michael kay, jeff wise, steve tilmon, steven marks, and richard quest. theyre walking out now at the press conference, about to be held in perth, australia. and there you see them introducing -- lets listen in. >> -- to see how everybodys traveling, and to thank our defense team and the international contributors and of course, to thank an gust houston for the work hes doing. as you all kn...

Bend, sort of making this even more difficult to trace. >> thats correct. bend quite dramatically. the effect of temperature, pressure will have an effect on the velocity of sound as it travels through the water. and this will cause the ray path, the direction in which the sound is traveling to actually bend sort of like looking at a pencil in half a glass of water. the same sort of refraction that occurs there. so it can be very difficult to localize. >> if they localize it, if based upon this ...

>> all right. "if the aircraft was put down as gently as sullenberg on the hudson, could this 777 sink without breaking up?" thats a good one for you, mr. bill nye. oh, no nye, sorry about that. lets send that one to jeff wise. >> yeah, weve talked about this in the past. it does seem like the consensus is that if this plane was put down very gently, it could remain in tact enough that, indeed, it could all wind up nice and tidy on the ocean floor. thats a big if, however. >> this sounds totally...

Going to hear. there might be a little bit more significance. but as richard says, if angus boss is going to be there, they be he should be there as well. im not actually that hopeful that were going to get something major out of it, was you never know. because this is such a dynamic search that information is coming through all the time and it may well be that what theyre going to announce will be superseded by something that comes through at the last minute. >> at the very least, i would expec...