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but i think the australians were just being cautious and wanted to have confirmation. will ripley is live for us there in australia. will, good morning to you and what have you learned this hour? good morning. the bottom line, no, we don t have official confirmation. as we mentioned earlier, the australians first got word of this through some channel, we don t know which channel, they first got word around lunchtime. they ve been trying to establish communication with haixun ever since. have not been able to get any information out of beijing which has been disseminated all the facts to the australians and the malaysians. our source within the australian defense force is telling us they really hoped when they got word of this this afternoon or yesterday afternoon now, in perth, they hoped that this would speed up the process. they hoped that, you know, hours into this we would be able to speed up the line of communication. that simply hasn t happened yet. that s the reason we re no
level of skepticism? i have a huge level of skepticism, fredericka. as far as radio transmit that signal to show, i ll leave that to the other experts. but in terms of the way this has been handled and both by the chinese and the australians for that matter, i mean, if they were given this information 12 hours ago, that would have been midday lunchtime in australia. and they certainly could have made some announcement that we ve received don t get all excited and raise false hopes but say here are the facts. we received this information. we re responding to this information. and it will take so long to get the equipment there that we need. and when we find out what we have, we ll get back to you. you know, basically sit tight until we get that. but they say nothing which is the same mistake the malaysians made and we crucified them the first couple of days of the incident when the malaysians said we re t not going to say anything until we can confirm it. well, in this situation, th
things, right? that s right, fredericka. when you re running a major crisis, you can set up tfansies grid, search, maps devised by investigators but if you receive new information that has a remote possibility of being credible or possible, you change, you make a change, you do something. the problem i m having with this flow of information is, you know, right now it s almost midnight in australia. if in fact they got this information in the middle of the day 12 hours ago, lunchtime, they had planes up in the air doing their regular search pattern. they had ships nearby. they certainly it looks like from the map they could have gotten a plane or two diverted from that other grid search area and been on-site of the debris within an hour, i would think, given the place they were already airborne and already at the nearby search area. you divert somebody over there. you don t wait and contemplate. this last statement makes no sense, we re thinking about it, we re contemplating, we re st