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The noise under water and we shouldnt get to excited about the ping. >> that is a good caution and reminder. we have been down this road before, thank you very much. and thank you for taking that tweet on the fly. i am watching the twitter page. and i can figure out where the touch points are for all of the vowers. craig conroy is an expert and he joins us now with a closer look at a typical black box. >> you are sometimes sitting next, to yeah, there it is. and so everybody can see you are fami...

Wont they, because if this pinging is verified, they will probably drop in the what they call the side scan sonar which has the ability to map the ocean floor and this is how they discovered the air france 447 wreckage a couple of years after the debris was discovered and ultimately discovered the black boxes on that particular crash. and the side scan sonar is an invaluable tool, but you dont want to plunk it down into the water unless you have a good idea where to go, and the ping ing might do...

The 24th into the south indian ocean, then that would have been the day that the ping started. and we are now 30 days from that coming up at 1:30 today. >> lets get more from cnns nic robertson. hes live in kuala lumpur, malaysia right now. nic, anything stand out to you regarding this news conference, and what else are you learning today? >> yeah, we have two questions from the news conference from cnns staff and really not particularly forthcoming answers from hasan mudmean. asking him if ther...

Chinese ship haixun has picked up pings cannot be verified at this point in time. they continue to the refine the search area. what they are not saying here, and what they are not saying is that they are going to that area to see if it is anything there worth searching. >> so that does not mean that they are not. >> right. but we have to see what the three separate search areas are that they have established for today and get the coordinates for that, and we will get those in the next couple of ...

Although some analysts say it could have died several days ago or could last a few more days. you see in the center, this silver dot here, that is the center. once this is submerged in the water, that is the sensor for the ping tore send off a ping. and it pings once per second for 30 days if the battery life holds. we know as the battery starts to die, that ping, according to the manufacturer of the beacon will start to get weak and less frequent. so right now, this is the very crucial period, ...

What else could it be? if not from nature, if its not from a black box, at 37.5 kilohertz, what else could this be? >> you did hear reports of a false positive -- false ping report. so it seems that this has happened before. weve had a false positive from paing pi pinger. id like to put a hat on what richard was saying that this is not how information should be released. when youre search for something, especially with a huge multi-national task force, youre going to have false positives. the ke...

What have you been able to tell us about what the families are saying and thinking as it relates to now a chinese vessel saying it believes it has picked up a pulse that may be connected to these black boxes? >> well, fredericka, they are cautious and their expectations are quite low. as soon as these reports came out about this possible ping we reached out to many of the relatives and one man whose sister was on the plane said to me, i dont believe this. listen, no debris has been found so how ...

Reports, but so far there had been no confirmation that the ping and floating objects are related to the missing jet. one fox military analyst says the chinese should have gone through proper channels with this new information. >> could have been reported to air chief marshal, houston. he should have sent out people to look and see if they got the ping again. they should have done more due diligence because now theyve enthused the whole world and clearly, the parents and sisters, relatives of th...

Time is running short to find the boxes before the battery goes down. the australian ship is towing a pinger locater to find the boxes. malaysian officials, those officials will not give up searching for the plane. >> we will continue to search same levelful vigor and intensity. we owe this to the families on board and the world. we will focus with all of our effort in finding the aircraft. n >> david how credible are the chinese ships that the chinese ship detected a ping signal. >> there is aw...

Sending it out to begin with had it been damaged in the crash, then no. our system wont locate it that way. >> i imagine that there is a lot of noise in the ocean. im wondering what other natural sounds could be confused for the pinger. >> there are a couple different types of sounds in the ocean, tectonic sounds, whale sounds, that kind of thing. but the processor is able to distinguish the sound the pinger makes. >> this is a tweet from james. if the pinger locater gets a hit, how long does it...