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Listening. they feel theyre in the right place. not just because they went there and they heard these possible pings over the weekend, one for two hours, one for 15 minutes, they feel theyre in the right place because of all the data, all the experts in kuala lumpur who told them this is the place you need to look. they went there with the ocean shield. they dropped in this pinger locator. they heard pings. they dont think thats a coincidence. >> i want to go to tom quickly. the latest news is t...

Desperate. the underwater search has been continuing around the clock. so far, though, nothing. today, australias ocean shield, the ship that heard pings over the weekend is at the northern end of the defined search area. and at the south, the chinese ship haixun 01 which also believes it heard pings over the weekend, which by definition would be unrelated because theyre hundreds of miles apart. the british ship hms echo is joining the search. its been two days since searchers on the ocean shiel...

Aircraft may be getting ready to take off hunting for the strangely elusive debris. our analysts and reporters are nd stainding by in washington ad around the world. lets begin with matthew chance who is joining us right now from perth, australia. matthew? >> reporter: wolf, thanks very much. australian officials are saying over the course of the next coming days we can expect an increase in activity as they do everything they can. they throw air and sea assets at trying to find this missing mal...

Briefing from the commanders of the search operation and then taking questions from the media and making some statements as well. next there will be angus houston who is the australian retired air force official who is heading up the multinational search efforts. he may make some remarks as well. potentially could be significant. angus houston has spoken a couple of times in the back week and made some very significant remarks. >> matthew chance in australia, thank you so much. its unyear if t...

There are a couple of areas of focus. theres one search area now, that instead of a separate area, theres one search area that has been dramatically reduced in size, from 90,000 square miles or thereabouts, down to 30,000 square miles. so two-thirds, theyve shaved off of it, because of the leads that theyre investigating. but there are a couple of different search areas within that, in the north of that area, thats where were seeing the "ocean shield" scan the ocean bed, to try to recapture thos...

Hi, will. >> reporter: hey, carol, its important to note, there were really two searches happening simultaneously right now. theres the search for debris that continues taking off every day from the air base where im standing and then 1,000 miles from here, theres the search under water. and thats whats happening right now with the ocean shield. they are listening under water with that listening device, trying to relocate those signals that they found twice over the weekend before the black box ...

Ship have been tracking on a converging course, this was the first course they were given by the crash investigators to tow these pingers. and the ocean shield appears to have located what may be the black boxes. if that is the case, this is an outstanding piece of detective work. >> and its interesting, jeffrey, some analysts have said, that it was premature for them to share this information. with the public. what do you think of that? >> well, that is an interesting point. the global attentio...

In very deep oceanic water, nothing happens fast. >> reporter: now, at the moment, the "ocean shield" is currently in the area where it detected the signals. what theyre trying to do now, use that towed ping locator provided by the united states to detect possibly a third signal. if they get that third signal, their hope is theyll be able to triangulate a narrow search area in which they can deploy the bluefin 21, also provided by the united states. its an unmanned autonomous vehicle, able to go...

Unlike, i might actually get commander leafy to speak about that in just a moment. in terms of time frame, i dont think youre here yesterday i referred to the fact just before the press conference were starting to hear ocean shield had made a contact but we had no details at that stage. over the last 24 hours, and indeed for probably next 24 hours, ocean shield will continue runs back and forth i might add this is a very time-intensive operation because its towing a lot of cable and to turn it a...

Recorder and the inflight data recorder. but at the same time, as you mentioned, they are urging caution. they want to verify the results. a process that houston said could take time, take a listen. >> i need to be honest with you, it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh-370. in very deep oceanic water, nothing happens very fast. >> right now the ocean shield is still in the area where it detected these e...