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Erin mclaughlin, many thanks to you with the latest from perth, australia. >> rosemary, you must keep in mind that for more than four weeks now, families and friends of the 239 people missing from flight 2370, theyve been anxiously awaiting to find out what happened to their loved ones. many of them have been waiting for word in kuala lumpur where the flight originated, and also in beijing, its destination. thats where we find now our pauline chu joining us live. pauline, first have, you heard r...

Search area. chinese television showed the crew using a basic sonar device on a small rubber boat to pick up sounds. australian officials say the latest findings measured by the high-tech "ocean shield" are unrelated and the best hope so far for tracking down malaysias lost plane. it could take several days before we get any real clarity on what has been found. >> matthews chance, well stay in very close touch with you. lets bring in miles obrien, aviation analyst and former ntsb peter goelz and...

Lose focus on, which is that ocean shield, that australian vessel, which has been described as the most technologically advanced vessel that there is in that multinational fleet looking for this missing malaysian airliner. it has that bit of u.s. naval equipment that it is towing along the back, the tpl, the towed pinger locator. and thats a very significant, very sensitive bit of equipment. and that is monitoring what it describes as an acoustic event as well. hopefully at this upcoming press b...

Would be back in consume of days. and now? >> yes. anxious houston, last night he gave a very full press conference in which he did discuss the chinese. he discussed ocean shield. and he basically said he would return when there was more to report. the fact he is coming back with in 24 hours, it could be nothing. it could be another update. but im guessing he is going to want to update us not only on the chinese pings, but also on ocean shield and the assets now being moved around. it will be a ...

To do. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: hi, christine. well, theyre saying these findings are absolutely extraordinary. the australian vessel, the "ocean shield" detecting not one, but two separate acoustic events. the first event lasting 2 hours and 22 minutes, the second event lasting 13 minutes, consisting of two separate signals, signals that authorities are saying are consistent with the cockpit voice recorder and the inflight data recorder, but at the same time here in perth, they are ur...

Getting all the attention. this is why. the chinese were using a handheld device like this which even the manufacturers say is really not made for the conditions in which theyre using it nor the way they were using it. on the other one, the ocean shield, the other location, this was being used. this is the towed ping weve talked so much about here. its way behind the ship on a long cable moving very slowly. it is a much more robust, much more powerful, much more serious piece of equipment for th...

Board that ship, which is the ocean shield, which is an australian ship that is carrying a u.s. pinger locator, towing a u.s. pinger locator. turned off all the noise producing equipment, lowered their device to 1400 feet. and they said they got some stronger and then it faded out because they were moving away from it, which they said was encouraging. then they said they reeled it in and they did a course change. and then when they turned around, once they did the course change, they lowered it ...

Determination. we havent found the aircraft yet i stress this. its very important. ocean shield remains in the area and continues to try to regain contact with the towed pinger locator. to this point its not been able to reacquire the signals. there are many steps yet before these detections can be positively verified being from missing flight mh 370. firstly we need to fix the position, then, ocean shield can lower the underwater vehicle blue pin 21 into the water and attempt to locate wreckage...

Welcome back to our continuing coverage on the search for missing malaysian airlines flight 370, im rosemary church and im errol burnett. >> lets get straight to the search for malaysian flight 370. >> this is the major development, the pinger locater, well, its finally detected more audio signals in the southern indian ocean. pulses consistent with those emitted by flight recorders. >> yeah, and the latest signals were picked up in the northern part of the search area by the australian ship, oc...

The area where the aircraft might have entered the water is reflected by boxes here. do not worry about the other search areas because the aircraft have been looking for reccage on the surface and have been taking account of 30 days of oceanic drift. but, the satellite has given us this area here as the most-likely place where mh 370 entered water. now what is significant about this is that yesterday, or couple days ago, hisuin 01 had its encounter with the electronic pulse in this location here...