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Over and over again -- >> i know. the audience knows that. they take everything with a grain of salt with this story as they should. you have the vessel that detects the pings that may be from black boxes and now for the layperson you wonder why dont they go back, send a submarine down into that spot and take a look? >> well, they have to find it. there say ping in the water. they are not sure where its coming from exactly. they will go back and forth and t triangulate that. until we get hard da...

Giant map. somewhere in the south indian ocean here trying to recreate what some of the technology is being used to look for, the pinger. weve talked about this. its a little heavy. jeff, you can hold it. >> okay. >> lets turn it up. this is the device that theyre using. and we can already hear -- >> right. were actually picking up the ping thats released by an actual pinger like the one on the plane. >> this is the one that the chinese were using. >> right. this is a handheld version. this is d...

This thing is intended to find black boxes. that is why id say its extreme stroke of luck or genius to be able to find the black boxes now theyre trying to continue searching the location. theyve seen, theyve had two hits, australian ship has from u.s. locator one picked up two hours, then they lost that signal. they turned and picked up one.# miles away another what sounded like a ping. now, also theyve said is that it was trance -- the signal isnt what a black box, its a man made signal. but a...

As well, you know, to the person that ive spoken to, wolf, the family members say that they really want concrete evidence before they believe or they know they can have some closure. theyve had so many leads over this time. the satellite leads. the data analysis. and now the word that there might be this ping response from the bottom of the ocean. for people who want to know where their loved ones are, what happened to them, these are very kind of nonconcrete things. they want to grasp hold of s...

The center of this, that was our focus, way south of this picture. heres australia over here. now remember, this is moving the opposite direction of a north hemisphere hurricane. this is a cyclone, so all of this wind now, only 300 miles from the center of this major hurricane, cyclone, was pushing waves and water that direction, at least 60 or 70 miles. we already know that this was an area that looked like a washing machine in the first place, but now we know it was even worse than that, becau...

Would eliminate some of the hope that still of the family members have -- they do exist, some of these family members do have hope that there may be some survivors. we talked to a woman today that said this is a lead. a lead that may lead us closer to the truth of where the plane is, but we need confirmation. we are not sure yet. and we dont know if this is true or false. now, were approaching the one-month mark. and relatives later tonight are going to have a candlelight vigille. theyre going t...

Relatively near each other, right? >> i would assume that. >> so lets assume -- you agree with that, right? >> right. >> lets assume the chinese -- that thats not realistic, but when the u.s. navy says theyve heard beacons coming for two hours from one site and a few hundred meters away from a second site, one for two hours, one for 15 minutes, that sounds a lot more encouraging to me, i assume to you as well. >> that certainly does. >> all right. so what happens next? lets assume because the u....

This. it sounds really promising. this is the biggest lead yet. and these frequencies, they are pretty specific, right? >> thats right. i think were seeing a good development is that now were seeing a professional level of caution of jumping to conclusions, something we have not seen consistently. but it appears this is about the best sign of hope that we have had yet. it all fits the best calculation of the fuel consumption of the airplane and the location as recalculated from the pings and now...

Hear if you put your head under water. but its not necessarily a ping. it is once per second. sounds like a bird chirping i know on my iphone if i have a lot of apps running im going to run down the battery. one or two, maybe pinged every two hours it might save on othe battery is that not the way it works. >> no, its designed to operate continuously. they might have lost the signal for a myriad of reason. the topography of the ocean floor. flight data recorder or pinger may be resting. a bunch ...

You can make matters much worse, especially when they turn into powerful cyclones. one of those recently blew through an area right near where two ships made those detections, those possible pings, again, possibly from the plane. joining me to talk about the path of the storm and how this might complicate the search for the missing jet is cnns meteorologist chad myers. a lot of us had our eyes off of this area because the search was a long way away. so this hurricane cyclone really didnt matter ...