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This hour. just about an hour ago we learned a possible signal has been picked up in the search for flight 370. another one. it still needs to be studied. further analysis of the australians are working on that as we speak. also, just coming in, we now know who in the cockpit spoke those final words heard from the plane. were live with the very latest on all of these fronts covering the search. lets go first to erin mclaughlin live in perth, australia, the party of the search effort. erin? >> hi...

How much more narrow do we need it before the robots go in. >> the thousand sand fofoot lev doesnt say its not here. it does say im getting something here, lets explore it. you look at the path where the ocean shield went and if you get this other pinger, lets look up here a little bit since we know theres some kind of signal there, lets find out if its legitimate and the lower level. >> weve forgotten how many aircraft are out looking for floating debris and theyve seen nothin nothing. >> again...

Locator, the plan so to use this underwater robotic locator called the blue fin 21, to locate wreckage on the sea floor. but searching such a large, deep ocean could take months unless they get a better idea of where to look, for what officials area resting place. clayton sandel, abc news, perth, australia. >> that torpedo-like submersible will go in the water in a few days to a week when theyre confident that the pingers are there or gone because the battery wore out, they said it will take abo...

>> if it was intentional. thank you. our set is tense here tonight. still to come, breaking news in the search for the flight. were awaiting that analysis of the fifth ping from the black box i said could come any moment. and next, a close friend of the planes captain outfront with exclusive never before season images of captain zaharie, and video you have to see. hillary clinton dodging -- well, youll see. [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they dont know it yet, but theyre gonna fa...

And even then, many more times optimistic than a week ago. we were up to four distinct detections on the black box, we turned around on the reciprocal course, and then a four-minute and seven-minute chunk of detection time. so when you put these two together it makes us very optimistic. when you only had the one set, i would call us cautiously optimistic. but now that we had the second set, we are optimistic we are getting closer. a couple of reasons why, one, we worked very closely with the joi...

About it. commercial fishing boats use some in that same frequency to look for fish but they are talking about multiple pings per second. this is a one-second ping and thats what we have here, a one-second ping. we havent picked up anything, as far as im aware as far as false positives that have that distinctive one-second sgling no false positives in anything that you can remember. thats interesting. mary, the initial signal pick ed up on saturday lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes them two most rec...

It down. if they are still getting pings and they still havent been able to narrow it down then maybe more resources. for now theyre going to let those resources work. >> and theyre going to have to work quite hard. as we know, david, theyve got these batteries are running out. but this is promising, right? >> very promising. again, think of where we were a week ago when we had no idea where in the indian ocean the plane was likely to be. now every single time they get another ping its adding mo...

Right. they did find some suspicious objects that were spotted from the air as ships went over, picked it up but not related to the crash at all. there were a number of storms in recent weeks over that area where the plane is thought to have gone down and they have done all of these drift patterns and worked out the movement of the ocean and thats why those ships are all concentrated about 3 or 400 miles to the west of where they are looking for the wreckage because thats where they think ne deb...

The "ocean shield" and where it went, making the turns, going up this way and coming back down. you can see theyre attempting to make a grid along this arc. you saw the arc before. >> yeah. >> that was in here before. now you can see that youre starting to pick up these pings. you have a two-hour ping and few others. some are outside, way far away. >> this seems scattered to the uninitiated eye. there is a method to this? >> absolutely, there is. you can see theyre starting to come together here...

Thats why it only runs for two hours. it captures an event which caused a problem and either the aircraft landed safely or it crashed and it helps investigators figure out what caused the event. now, the normal procedure is if something goes wrong, you follow your checklist and you land the aircraft and then as soon as everything is done, you pull the circuit breaker to shut off that recording so it doesnt record over the event data. and evidently what happened was the air crew in the malaysia 7...