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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...

Looking in the wrong place. have you lost all confidence on the data that the search area is based on, the satellite data and ping data? >> i never had a great deal of confidence in anything when i cant get concrete information that i can go to the bank on. all the things ive heard so far have been based upon assumptions. and those were fine. were talking about very brilliant, very experienced experts when we talk about that. except its still an assumption. im hoping that we will go from assumpt...

People are going to pitch in on this project, bring in some more expertise. you need to select people with a team based on qualifications and what they bring to the team. not simply that its more countries. >> jim tillman, youre concerned searchers are working off incorrect assumptions and looking in the wrong place. have you lost all confidence on the data that the search area is based on, the satellite data and ping data? >> i never had a great deal of confidence in anything when i cant get co...

Of that. so they have a lot to choose from. they want to narrow that down as much as possible. but at the moment, they are looking at probably a much wider search if bluefin doesnt come up with anything in this area, and if they dont decide to go to some other where the first ping was heard just before the second. erin? >> thank you very much, miguel. its incredible how much we dont know. the malaysian prime minister telling cnn exclusively, you just heard it, he wont even say that mh 370 crashe...

The missing malaysian airliner. it is unlikely they are parts of the plane. we have the latest. >> reporter: a beach goer found a piece of sheet metal three and a half hours south of perth, australia. they dont have concrete evidence as to what happened to the plane. only clues. the four sets of pings the ocean shield heard. but they are ten missions in and unable to find anything of the plane. by the end of this week, it should be finished mapping out the area around the strongest signal, ping ...

A real gap in their security. >> a major blunder by the part of the military. >> the southeast asia politics they have their own issues going on, the big power, china, not too far. if they did have a ping going nearby and didnt follow their own protocol and not too aggressive about it you wont have them admitting to that and be very defensive how they reacte reacted. >> richard, we will be sharing parts of your exclusive interview throughout the day. did you get any sense what was in the prelimi...

Of sheet metal found on the coast of australia doesnt appear to be part of the plane. do you expect more cases like this, jeffrey thomas, as time goes by? >> look, as time goes by, im actually certain that on the coast of western australia people are going to start picking up bits and pieces as we go along. but getting back to what youre saying, don, and backing up here, i mean, everything leads us to where these pings are. and certainly 90% of the strongest ping, we havent found something. ther...

>> hour to hour. the ocean is constantly heating up and cooling down. the thermal structure is changing. >> it makes it challenging then if a ping is detected to know that its going to be the exact same place where its then detected again. >> exactly right. sure. i mean, the ideal circumstance is if youre in the same place youre going to hear it again. thats not the way it works. >> is there a way to test conditions so they can sort of get a game plan going? >> yeah, i think many people think yo...

The timeline and the original ping and also the restrategizing. it doesnt talk about stopping search at all, but focusing on, for example, the visual air surface search where they are still relevant relative to the debris that you mentioned earlier or the under water search. im not in the position yet to announce it, but on discussion that angus houston, we will do so jointly. >> all right. yes, please. >> richard quest. >> hi. >> i made a comment to the procedures and protocols, familiar with y...

From where they are now, shifting to where another ping in the area was detected. also, when you circle back to the debris, australian officials saying that theyre more suspicious about it, basically saying the more they look at it less excited they get. >> the bluefin is almost finished scanning the most promising search zone without finding anything. starting to near the point where australian officials will scale back the general effort or not? >> from hearing from the prime minister in austr...