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To mary schiavo, former inspector general with the department of transportation currently an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. also rob mccallum joins us an ocean search specialist. mary talk to me about the cell phone being on and getting a ping there whether or not he was trying to make a call. we dont have any indication. what does that dit you about altitude, about course, about direction? >> well, it can indicate a lot of things, or it can just pose a lot more questions and ...

Well see it. >> and what is happening in that first six hours of data what is happening to it? >> a lot of people staring at a couple of screens watching. its a water fall display. line by line by line every second a ping and is painting a picture line by line like a tapestry. they are waiting for that to see what the texture -- what are they going to see on the bottom? rocks, sediment or something manmade sitting there. >> were going to have more on the conversation just after the break, more o...

Its job, not to listen for ping buzz to map the ocean floor and look for debris. to do that it can use two different pay loads which have to be swapped out. >> this particular payload section is the akoos particulars section. >> first it uses an echo sounder. it bounces sound waves off the ocean floor that arent natural. if those are picked up the bluefin can be brought to the surface. high-tech cameras get put in. >> a hey tech camera capable of three frame per second. >> together they can crea...

And the search for debris. the pings we think we know it is there. theres something there thats pinging and we believe that its the plane. as opposed to the wreckage, where we found a lot of places where it isnt. so i think the ping, clearly the best. you know, i dont want to be too much of a pessimist, but thats all theyve got right now. the bluefin will help them have more information about their only clue. but theres a lot of riding on those four pings. >> and the one thing we know for sure, ...

Generally here. >> correct. >> its a large area, still, that were talking about, like 500 square miles. but the mission today that the bluefin is going to be taking on, theyre starting at 40 square kilometers, 15, 16 square miles? >> right. and again, thats focused on this line -- oops -- >> thats okay. pick a color. any color. >> all right. so lets go out for a second. and this line is two hours, they have that ping. >> okay. >> now, think about that, as to where within the pinger would be, it ...

It to be, to produce a signal like that. >> so if they dont come back, the bluefin comes back up to the surface. they download the information. that takes four hours. then they look and they dont see anything abnormal. they dont see anything that could be the ping. could be the black box. what then? where else do they go? >> there are other places you can look around here, remember, i said the minimum requirement is three-mile distance. >> okay. >> it could be more. it most likely is more. just ...

Navy-provided blue fin 21, the underwater autonomous vehicle capable of searching the ocean floor for actual wreckage. now, australian authorities have not been in a rush to do that, saying they want to be absolutely certain the black box batteries have completely expire they have detected every ping there was to detect. why? because the more pings they can detect, the more information they have with which to narrow down a potential search field. that helps the blue fin 21 search some 2.8 miles ...

Right. thank you. thats an amazing demonstration. you know, jeffrey thomas, those sounds, we havent heard in at least five days. and so were waiting to hear, for this press conference at the top of the hour whether or not theyre hearing these pings like paul ginsberg has put together for us there. whether its the next phase were now submersibles go in the water. >> indeed. pauls demonstration really highlights how difficult it is to hear this ping. >> they heard six pings. four they locked on to...

Cell phone on in the cockpit. its never supposed to be on at all. its part of every check list that im familiar with. >> reporter: sources say that malaysian authorities told the u.s. that a cell tower in penang, malaysia, roughly 200 miles from where the plane turned around, picked up a ping from fariqs cell phone. he could have tried to do something with the phone. we dont know. >> the interesting thing about that is no other phone was connected to it. its just specifically his cell phone. >> ...

Quite a large underwater search area was determined on the basis of the exchanges between the satellite, the inmarsat satellite and the aircraft, the handshakes. and you might remember, we had the seventh ping. this area that were in is under where the seventh ping occurred. now, after that analysis was done, that enabled the deployment of "ocean shield" with the pinger, pinger locator and she went into that area and she received transmissions from the deep. that is the basis, the four transmiss...