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Deployment of ships and planes yet, the multinational search team, 11 planes, three civil planes, and 14 ships. the black box pingers will soon fall silent, if they havent already. were at 32 days now and maybe the problem with reacquiring the signal could be a battery problem. we just heard from the commander of the u.s. navy. out front with more on what crews are listening for right now. >> reporter: this is what a ping sounds like. >> very high frequency. >> reporter: the critical sound searc...

Hours. >> tom, what happens next? >> its to triaction newsing late the pings. this is the area theyre working in, and to give you some sense, you may recall that the chinese thought that they heard pings as well over the weekend. this now seems much more credible, the area the australians are looking in, but the problem is that area is two to three miles deep. the ocean is very deep there. theyre going to once again come in and search in area yet again, and theyre going to try to get another rea...

Is -- but if its the facts, i have to face it. >> i feel the news from the press conference could be true because the area is where the plane should be. its so strange that there was no emergency beacon signal. i think the plane glided on to the water and sank so the beak conswerent activated. >> so the family members following the news just like the rest of us, and some of them stealing themselves for a potential very long wait, don. and certainly, as that wait, many of them i have spoken to ar...

Search with our sonar, our side sonar is getting a good location to put it in, we get that from finding the black box. we were encouraged a couple days ago. however, we are now very cautious in our optimism because we have able to reacquire that signal. >> how often does the black box ping? >> we heard signals coming at about one second intervals. and those are at a very specific frequency. so, the reason we were so encouraged at first was because all the signs did point to pings consistent with...

Criminal intent. thats the implication. >> well, what were doing is were looking at empirical data. were looking at where the aircraft flew, and were trying to guess what the intention is from that. and thats always dangerous territory. i mean, you really just go back to the data. we know where it flew, but we dont have any other evidence that suggests theyre trying to skirt radar. so im not willing to draw any conclusions from that. >> and as an audio expert, none of this says anything until yo...

Beneath the pings, the pings are so exciting because theyre the right frequency, 37.5, theyre the right frequency of pinging noises, and the rate at which the ping comes is about once every second, and thats right. the ocean shield mentioned that it had heard not one but two, which would suggest there are two pingers, one on the flight data recorder, and one on the flight voice recorder. and they dont travel very far, means they were at some point right on top of or nearly on top of whatever was...

Talking that theyre hearing an echo or a ping and a ping. theyre hearing a ping at one frequency and a ping at another frequency. >> which would be entirely different. >> which would say its from two different devices compared to an echo or something bouncing off the bottom or something in the water. >> thats the other question i have for christine. what are the odds that double echo or double ping could have been as simple as a bounce off of a thermal layer or cavern or mountain or other debris...

Broken off simply by pressure. so the weakness of the moment is no debris which is why the planes are going back over there to extend that area to see if they can find any debris. also, they will be bringing in the autonomous submersible that will go down once they have relocated that ping. >> richard quest, many thanks as usual. still to come in the "newsroom," a high tk british ship is in the area where search crews heard the pings. renee marsh joins me with what they think the ships will do...

Is day 31 meaning it could go silent forever at any moment. joining me now, mike boyd, aviation analyst and fox news contributor. >> good to see you. >> weve had had so many different stories here but now the aussies are saying yes, there might be a ping. what do you make of it? >> well the china maritime authority first found it. thats a credible source. now this is another credible source. porpoises dont make this noise. i think theyre really on to something if they can triangulate it quickly ...

Handshake occurred between the satellite and the aircraft. the sixth exchange is represented by this line here. a short time after the sixth exchange, there was another exchange with a slightly different signal. this was a matter of i think about eight minutes after the sixth ping. and the expert team considered this as very significant. they think something happened at that stage and we assess that thats about where the aircraft would have run out of fuel. now, the search area is the underwater...