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Theyre looking for these pings. look where they picked up the pings along the way here. in these four different areas. this is separated by about 17 miles. so altogether, still a pretty big search area. around 560 miles off in. but what theyre doing here, this may look chaotic, theyre imposing an order upon the pings. the idea is you go out and create a grid in the ocean by sailing back and forth one way, then back and forth another way. and every place you can get a ping you record it and then ...

Underway. we dont know if there are new developments, though, beyond the refining the search area. we anticipate some sort of announcement being made. we will bring it to you live. we want to bring in our panel. author of why planes crash, investigator fights for safe skies and doing calculations on the search. boeing trip 777 captain and miles obrien, former department of transportation inspector who represents accident victims and their families. richard, lets start with you. you were with me ...

Loudly, heres what we have, ships dragging themselves across. this cord is 2 1/2 miles long. its like trying to catch a fish. youve got a tuna on the other end of your line but youve got a half miles worth of fishing line out there. where is that tuna? it could be wiggling back and forth because of the currents. it had a very long 2 1/2 hour ping right through the middle, i believe. but then it had a shorter ping as it turns around -- takes a long time for this ship to turn around, almost three ...

Out. if they have not already run out. for the latest grn reporter roger maynard is live. boy, this is getting sadder by the day and more desperate by the day. >> it, greta, once again, this intense search is turning into something of a waiting game. and all the more frustrating for that. after the u.s. navys detector equipment being towed by the australian vessel ocean shield picked up those signals consistent with a black box flight recorder over the weekend. the search later now says they wil...

To cautiously optimistic. i guess thats what we are now. i dont take it as bad sign, its a normal progression. i think weve gotten used to dealing with things like this. >> i guess so. they have narrowed the search area. the last time you and i spoke, that was probably the most important thing that needed to happen, was that they narrowed this down. its now at some 30,000 square miles, which is about a third of what they were previously searching. but is that enough? i assume the answer is no. >...

The salinity and the surface temperature. you might get a difference in temperature between a lower layer and an upper layer and a difference in salinity, in density. and this would affect the path of sound waves. and so the two ping signals could very well be coming from a signal source. and with all the errors adding up, they seem to be very far apart. but if youre going to look some place, this is sure a very good start. >> yeah. jeff, we are learning tonight that the pings detected by the "o...

Certainly a lot smaller than what we were looking at last week. no question about it. but getting one extra ping and being able to triangulate down, to make it smaller and smaller and smaller will be a huge benefit. but my guess is that they are now very much looking at plan b, plan c, and plan d for what happens if they never hear another ping. >> miles, we heard from the new zealand wing commander. he said that they have basically given up on the chinese pings. they are not even searching in t...

Assuming those pings were, in fact, from the two black boxes? >> the key is not to interfere with yourself and not listen to each other. you need a pristine environment. we talk about the chinese pings, its quite possible they were listening to their own ping, so first of all, you want to make sure theres not a lot of commercial traffic around that area and make sure you know the noise, understand the noise from your own ship and try to get the pinger itself as far away as you can. so putting an...

Good morning, im diana perez. >> im john muller. here are top stories we are following on "world news now." people in the deep south are cleaning up from a nasty line of storms, tornadoes and powerful winds and drenching rain that battered the area yesterday. leaving deadly flash flooding and dozens of water rescues. full details in a moment. a new strategy in the search for flight 370. instead of sending a submarine to the ocean floor, crews, ships and planes will focus on relocating the ping...

Concentrate on doing this properly. >> reporter: a potential hurdle for the pinger locator? false positives. >> a manmade source, this could pick it up, especially if its closer to the surface. >> what kind of surface? >> a ship, engine noise, transducers, anything that scientists put at the bottom. >> reporter: one thing that doesnt concern the manager, the idea of whales or other sea life sending confusing signals. they are good at weeding out possible false positives. and in op centers like t...