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As some of them have said publicly they are not willing to accept until they find hard evidence. >> so richard, the prime minister does not want to come out and say the plane is lost now out of respect for, he says the families. do they still believe its -- what they initially said it is in the southern indian ocean? >> oh, yes. theres no question the pm believes that. he has very high confidence in the inmarsat data and the pings from the "ocean shield." he makes clear, don, that if that eviden...

Move on to the second best hope? >> well, theyre going with the best information they have. and lets keep in mind this is the first place they have searched in the southern indian ocean. we expect that they are probably through 100% of that initial search area, and officials here saying theyre going to continue search using the bluefin in adjacent areas of that first search. and then this move north. now what that actually means is a big question. its not clear they can do that with the bluefin ...

Old area, its the area that they said was the single most promising area that they have. >> right. yes, although there is the area of the first ping, which is several miles north of there that they could also go to. this is the one they really thought they had it on there might be other parts they want to look in further. if they have to reset, youre talking about bringing in new gear, new search vehicles, possibly new ships, new individuals to help run all of that. possibly the ocean shield wou...

If you think about it, there are potentially these cell phones from the flight and crew. theyre almost like these little black boxes, if they can be found. >> all right, that is incredible, mark, 239 pieces of data. is there a way to track these cell phones, if it is at the bottom of the ocean, and you have all of this data. some people have more than one. can you find them now? >> well, you cant use the phones to find the plane. but you can use the phones to find out where the plane was once yo...

Couldnt happen. bluefin going on behind the ocean shield. there are pings here. if is where they believe the plane went down, guess what happened about ten days after the plane went down? a giant cyclone. 160 miles per hour right over the area down here where that plane went. we believe at least if anything was sticking up, that sticking up stuff would have been blown off to the west. here you go. theres ping location. it could get into the new current and along the coast of australia. its certa...

These leads, they are vigorously pursuing them. the oil slick discovered in the ocean shield, some speculating that oil slick could have been from a plane engine. they went to great lengths to test that oil. they brought it to shore by a military vessel. they choppered it to a military base and jetted it to perth for testing and compared it against oil provided by malaysian airlines. it turned out to be nothing. another false lead. it sort of shows how seriously they are taking it and aggressive...

Answers. i know marys had much more experience of this sort of anger of families when they turn up expecting answers than the authorities will deserve all the wrath that befalls upon their head. on the question of the search areas and all of the things that we talked about just now, what happens next, of course, is they have the ocean shield. they have everything there in a hurry because of the 30-day deadline. they have done the searches that they needed to do within those parameters. but now i...

See how far it travels and how far they must expand the search. there are a lot of things they can do, not just refining the inmarsat data but expanding their knowledge of pingers in this part of the ocean. >> the australian chief said he expects ongoing data analysis by a team in kuala lumpur to result in further refinement of the search area within the next couple of weeks. how much more refined can they get? >> you know, i really dont see they could get much more refined. remember, the ocean ...

Authorities have said quite clearly theyre going to bring in technical experts, i think if at that meeting they do not start to provide some hard answers, and i know mary has had much more experience of this sort of anger of families, when they dont -- when they turn up expecting answers. then the authorities will deserve all the wrath that befalls upon their head. on the question of the search areas and of all the things we talked about just now, what happens next? of course, they got the ocean...

Certain layers in the ocean, sounds can travel much farther than ordinary. so they would have time to literally put a pinger down and see how far it travels and how far they must expand the search. there are a lot of things they can do, not just refining the inmarsat data but expanding their knowledge of pingers in this part of the ocean. >> the australian chief said he expects ongoing data analysis by a team in kuala lumpur to result in further refinement of the search area within the next coup...