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But i think the confidence comes from the fact they had four hand shakes and a partial fifth from the satellites. that last one, as they sent the "ocean shield" and their assets right there and boom, first day they got the ping. i think that was a big confidence builder that let them know they are in the right place, that the hand shakes from the satellite directed them in the right direction. i think thats probably the confidence. they seem to be in the right place. their clues so far are panni...

Think they are in -- the right spot? >> it does. that goes back from the sources i have talked to. it goes back to the confidence that they have in those ping -- very first tplping set they got which was the two miles of tpl. it is not just that they received the ping at that frequency. but it is that they received the ping at that frequency of varying amplitudes which gives you an indication not just where it is as far as the general area, but you can hone in on it a little bit as you get furth...

Going to turn up the plane. what would the next phase be, in your mind? >> one of the significant components of the next phase is simply to expand the search area. that we went and focused or theyre focusing on their best guess based on the data they have but now that it appears that theyre not finding any of the debris field, simply a matter of expanding out to some of the other areas. i dont really see this although disappointing as necessarily that negative of an event other than this is a lo...

Mission on the ocean floor or just above it is still being analyzed. and were hoping to hear in the next few hours what if anything they found on that run. of course, they are concentrating their work on the area where the strongest ping came from. so where they will be going over the background pretty thoroughly, in fact going back over the ground that the bluefin missed on that first mission cut short, john? >> okay, lets look forward here, we get to the point where the bluefin maps that entir...

They first sent down the auv, they have narrowed the area down to where they believe they can cover it in a matter of a couple of weeks. but if they do not find something there, then youre looking at plan b. theyre not going to rush into plan b. theyre going to go away and think well, first of all, do we now have to search the arc between the 6 1/2 ping and the 6 ping? thats 300 miles long and 30 miles wide. so thats going to be a major undertaking. theyre going have to regroup, as they did with...

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Joins us from australia. and what about the australian prime minister saying they will regroup and reconsider. what does that mean? >> if you havent found anything in the area where you were most promising to find something, and houston basically said its around the strong -- the ping that gave the strongest signal which we now know this evening was the second ping. if you havent found anything in that vicinity youve got to really seriously question is it worth keeping going to the first and the...

Ping. i think that was a big confidence builder that let them know they are in the right place, the hand shakes from the satellite directed them in the right direction. so i think that is probably the confidence is that they seem to be in the right place. and their clues so far are panning out. so that is my take on why they were confident about where they are. >> mr. ginsberg, there are questions about the role that the hms nuclear sub is searching in the area. the second ping that was detected...

Them this is going to take a while. they need to dial down the emotion and rhetoric and just do their job and search. >> they are obviously trying their best right now, peter, but are you 100% convinced that they are looking in the right area? and i asked the question because, as you know, this is the so-called black box, even though its orange, the flight data recorder. this is the ping. its supposed to emit them every second at 37.5 megahertz. but the actual megahertz that were heard was 32.2....

Pings, two fadeout pings. this is the area where immarcet said, this is where you need to look. this is the spot where the last partial handshake occurred. and, yeah, absolutely. we didnt expect to sort of go down and find it mission one. and were only four days in. there is, on the ground, a high level of confidence that this is the right spot. and at the same time, while we thought the air search would be wound down, its proceeding at the same level, 13, 14 aeroplanes going out today. so this ...