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>> well, i think theyre kind of jaded at this point. they dont want to believe or rarely believe anything theyre hearing. time and time again, weve heard the following. that in fact they wont believe anything until they see physical evidence. as you said, when you introed the segment, they there hasnt been that physical piece of evidence at play, any kind of thing you can tangibly hold on to. so the data that has been used to analyze where this plane pointly went down, this audio or the ping rec...

Earlier had said that they heard some pinging for about 90 seconds, then for a few seconds. thats 3 or 400 miles away from where the u.s. navy says they detected a ping. what do you make of the chinese claim? >> it feels like a red herring. to the extent that there were misdirected resources, the fact that the other ship made this find sort of takes that pressure off the chinese. >> what do you make of the chinese claim? >> i dont think it was taken very seriously. because the device that they w...

Were a series of acts which signifies where each exchange or handshake occurred between satellite and the aircraft. the sixth exchange is represented by the line here. a short time after sixth exchange, there was another exchange. with a slightly-different signal. this is a matter of, i think, about eight minutes after the sixth ping. and the experts consider this as significant. they think something happened at that stage. and we assessed about where aircraft would have run out of fuel. now, th...

Verifying that the latest leads are in fact the missing plane. if it does turn out that the plane is in this spot in the southern indian ocean, it will be so remarkable. remember there was no physical evidence guiding the ocean shield to this spot. it was simply a team of experts who did some amazing math and said look, go here, this is our best guess where youre going to find something. they put down this tpl and happened to hear a ping in the final hours, really, of the black box battery life....

>> i wonder if they factored in all the probabilities of using that particular scenario. >> if you take a model and you take a tsunami and japan and stuff washing up on the shore and the united states, you know the beginning and the end point. if you take this ping as an end point and you plug it into the formula, they can make sense of some of the other stuff. so this is another clue, this ping. potentially, it may be the wrong ping, the wrong area. they may be able to answer some more question...

That they can now go on to the next challenge and deal with that, too. >> miles, whats the bottom line for you, especially given youve been frustrated with inmarsainm lack of transparency, do you believe this is the plane? >> im an inmarsat believer. the fact that this location happens to coincide with that last, we call it the half handshake, half ping, whatever you like, which we have associated with the last transmission from the aircraft, that, to me, thats triangulating your data and your e...

Certainty. but if it is the facts i have to face it. >> the tonight the families will pause for the one-month mark of the crash of flight 370. the vigil will last until 8:19 a. a.m. the moment of that last partial ping that was detected by that satellite. still to come in the newsroom, oscar pistorius takes the stand in his murder trial and cries as he remembers the night he shot his girlfriend. >> i was simply trying to protect reba. i can promise you that night she felt love. >> hear for tes...

Working the numbers. the chinese sighting gives us a little bit of hope. just a little bit of hope that maybe weve stumbled on to it. but aside from that, there is still a growing momentum that we are on to it. and i do really believe that we will find it. it just may take a long time. >> les obben is an airline, airplane aficionado. this has to be mind-boggling even for you. youve been flying for decades now, right? >> almost 30 years. >> right. >> its totally amazing. whats amazing to me, its ...

Great rush. then we would need to bring in more equipment, an rov. that would go down to retreat the black boxes, all large pieces of wreckage for forensic examination. >> captain darby, these are hopeful scenarios. these are ifs, if the pulses can be redetected, if the pulses turn out to be the black boxes. a lot of pope here. >> it is. if it a true ping, its well founded. they have been extremely lucky to find out or had information others didnt have. somehow we took hundreds of thousands of s...

Transmitting from a part of the aircraft. thats better than debris. debris, that doesnt mean theres a wreck. the wreck could be 1,000 miles away. >> the fact that its a ping. everybodys talking about 37.5 kilohertz. >> kilohertz. >> does that mean something special to you? >> yes, it does because theres only one device that i know that emits that frequency and thats this emergency locater. now, if someone wants to mix that up with oceanographics and the song of the whales call or the tortoises m...