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Out. sure, they might have been outside the search zone. theres questions about that. are they running their own race? all those sorts of things. if theyve got a ping of some kind, lets go check it out. lets eliminate it or maybe its positive. and this, as i said earlier, this is the most bizarre mystery in aviation and it may well be theyve stumbled on it, so lets check it out. >> geoffrey, weather is expect to be good today. its sunny where you are. 9:08 a.m. in perth now. how confident are yo...

83,000 square miles that is roughly the size of utah. i want to take you under the surface. you need to be careful with this. there are a few things we do know. we do know there is a broken ridge and a plateau. you can see 10,000 to 16,000 feet is what we are looking at. where the ping was detected we are thinking it is almost 15,000 below the oceans surface and it could go down to 20,000 feet. anywhere from 5 to 10,000 feet. the indian ocean a very, very deep ocean. look at this. this is the ei...

Effect. a tropical cyclone on the west and southern fringes of that search area and carrying winds of 50 miles per hour right around the center and the seas are about 16 feet. moving quickly, though, at about 30 miles per hour. but right where theyre searching and right in the middle of that box, the weather is much better than it is right here on the fringes. so, thats good news. we will see more cloud cover, so, we know that were searching mainly on the ocean surface, which is good news. were ...

Rating of the movie? >> i give it a 4.5 out of 5. and i expect a full text report from you, claytop, when you get out of the movie theater. i want a text, buddy. >> you are a tough grader. you are not handing out 4.5s every week. >> its my second favorite movie of the year behind "the lego movie." those are my top right now. coming up, next on the rundown, more on the missing plane. chinese officials say the ping could be coming from the planes black box. our next guest says it is a long shot ...

The contents of flight data recorder or the voicebox -- whatever its called, in the black box? >> no, i dont think so, especially the period of time that were talking about now. you should be able to leave it down there for several years at least because these are all sealed systems and the flight data recorder especially, its got -- its sucking all the information off the aircraft data buses. so it has what that airplane had been doing for probably the previous 24, 25 hours. >> and finally, cap...

Air force pilot broke down the key elements a couple of hours ago. >> a calm, measured and supremely effective response by air chief marshall houston. he hit a couple of critical points in looking towards the family and loved ones. number one, he confirmed the ping from chinese news agency wasnt verified .i think thats very important, just to reduce everyones expectations. he then said that he was actually talking to the rcy in china, the rescue coordination center in china. i think thats import...

The airliner take beforehand? martin savidge is in a flight simulator for us. martin, what were you able to figure out from the location of the reported pulse signals. >> well, theres a lot that we still dont know. i mean, we know where this pulse comes from. we have been charting a lot of this stuff out on maps and computers. what we are doing right now is flying 777, of course, laid out exactly the same as 370. we are over the straits of malacca headed in a southwesterly direction. this is aft...

>> all right. that is the man in charge of this multi-national search, angus houston, giving us possibly the most information we have had about this missing flight so far from any organization, from any individual. were going to stay on the air until we get through this with our investigators and experts and analysts here. he said the investigation team has been informed of a new satellite correction which raises the importance of the southern part of the search area. thats according to angus ho...

Dont know exactly where it is. these could be off a little bit, but i just want to show you some of the features that we are going to be dealing with. we do know a broken ridge and a plateau in the areas theyre searching. take you under the water now and some areas 16,400 feet where that ping is detected. estimated to be about 14,000 feet below the surface. some of the deepest amounts up to 20,000 feet and then you have the plateau that raises up to about 10,000 feet. so, these are very, very de...

The ocean floor. so around continents, that area is mapped. but when you get way out in the middle of nowhere, thats uncharted territories. theres caves, everything you could imagine going through there. >> if the beacon stops working, how much harder will this make the search? >> it could last, i would say, a couple of years, ten years, 15 years, god only knows. >> and do we know whether or not -- if they identify the ping as coming from a boeing 777, how is it -- is it a group investigation th...