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It will at least be a few more hours before we find out anything for sure. craig? >> katy tur for us in kuala lumpur, thank you. to get a better sense of what this reported ping detected deep below the oceans surface could mean in the search for that missing plane, i want to bring in arnold carr, the president of the american underwater search and survey. hes also a sonar expert. he joins us from monument beach, massachusetts, via skype. arnold, the joint command out of australia released a stat...

About a month and the plane disappeared march 8th. today is april 5th. time is of the essence for those searching for malaysian flight 370. chinese news report say a chinese ship picked up a signal in the southern indian ocean. at 37.5 kilohertz. thats the same frequency emitted by the planes black boxes or flight data recorders. malaysian authorities say theyre trying to verify the report. the chinese also say one of their air force planes spotted some white floating objects in the search area....

Much of it at the ocean floor two years later, and similar issue there where the ocean floor was not mapped, and did that play any role in it? >> well, im sorry to say that it is beyond my expertise, but you know, it is that was my understanding that it is true. that is pretty vast in that particular area where air france 447 went down, yeah. >> but as, so they do the sort of side scan, sonar, what are they really getting back? what kind of information do they get back, miles, and do you think t...

Were talking about underwater, the detection of possible pings, and then on the surface, the sighting of possible ones. as weve seen repeatedly over the several weeks, fred, you know, objects that have been sighted by satellite or aircraft have turned out not to have any connection to flight 370. so we just need to point out that that we obviously are hopeful for any clues but we need to be careful as well. >> yeah, it would also be extraordinary because weve been talking about drift patterns an...

Chris, would they have started the underwater search any earlier? >> well, no. to be honest, the underwater search is limited in that we really need a smaller search area. so the towed pinger locater, the thing weve put in the water just earlier yesterday, can only search about a mile away for a location. until we have some indication where the plane might have gone or have we seen some surface bedebris, it wouldnt have done a whole lot of water. >> the black box batteries were due for overhauls...

They heard. >> reporter: theyre saying that the chinese ship deployed a black box detector into the water in the southern indian ocean and picked autopsy pulse signal, a ping. 37.5 killohertz. thats the same frequency emitted by the flight recorder. one of the air force planes spotted white floating objects in that search area. malaysian authorities say theyre trying to verify this report. military and civilian planes and ships from several nations, including china, australia, britain and the u....

False leads were also from china. in an earlier stage of this search. at the same time, the organization, the australian-led organization, which is overseeing the search, issued its own statement this evening, in which it said that these -- these chinese reports could not be verified at this time. and that they had asked china for more information, which is itself rather interesting, because the assumption was that all information automatically went through that coordinating body. but many quest...

In the garage. then one walked back in the kitchen. >> she heard a ping and felt her husbands legs quivering on her legs. >> the sound was the bullet hitting her head. >> against all odds the woman regained consciousness hours later. someone had re-entered the ho e house. >> grace didnt move. she was half in shock and half just lying still, hoping they would go away. she could tell her husband was moving, and then she heard another gunshot, and then she didnt feel her husband moving at all. >> t...

With the plane? >> absolutely, alex. one of the things that -- were a month into it. we know how violent the ocean is in that particular area. and even though this new search area isnt as volatile as further south where we were a couple, three weeks ago, the fact is that i would really, really be cautious with finding any kind of debris anywhere near this signal, especially after a month. because the ocean is moving and its moving at a pretty good clip in that particular part of the world. i wou...

This is day 30 of the battery life. i have to say this and you have a book on your shelf right behind you. its the chinese. you know, maybe they havent been forth coming with all the information. and the development today same just two hours after a malaysian press conference where the malaysians didnt know anything. it makes me skeptical. >> well, me, too, but then again, as just as you said it, its the chinese. now, they agreed and everyone agreed to participate in the joint task force with th...