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Flights and we can rule out the northern pathway. none of the pinnings we gave one 11th match with the northern root they match with the southern route. the match is pretty much inescapable. >> that led malaysian airlines and the malaysian government to tell a family member that all hope is lost at this point. obviously distraught family members there. as far as the investigation is concerned this search will continue for the aircraft. what they are looking for is the planes black box. to do tha...

This information given the malaysian minister the confidence to come out and be so decisive as he was yesterday. what is doppler shift, gretchen. to dumb it down into laymans technology for someone like myself, its basically a continuous wave sent out from the satellite. if the plane is moving away, the wave will be elongated. if the plane is coming towards, it will be compressed. i spoke yesterday about using distance piece, time taken for ping to go out and come back, they could use the distan...

Based and it operates under water. they put out these listening devices and they can listen for the ping. you begin to get the surface assets. the first kind of assets that will get there will be air. i think this will require patience. the time when the first plane can get there as i interpret is a little difficult to figure out the time differences. he said 8:00 a.m. thats sometimes off. this is going to require patience. thats for the first plane to get there. the planes get there and they ta...

Minute. i think for the families, given all that we just heard. given all that anthony just said, then i think if im the family, im wondering, why cant they show me the wreckage? why do they keep on having these false starts where they say theres a satellite image here and there. with all of that data, then why cant they find it? >> yeah, well, you know, that ping that the satellite gets is only one time an hour. and its not a precise location of where the plane is. calculation of how long it to...

>> you have to do it in a way that allows the malaysians a way to save face. thats important. >> tell us about the diplomacy. >> we have our state department folks on the ground, but the military cooperation is one of the most important things you can have when you have a situation, kimberly. >> were joined by shepard smith. >> you mentioned the military. you can bring it to me. thats fine. we have just gotting this new information in from the "new york times." this is fascinating. officials now...

As soon as you can you try to get the ships there that have the sophisticated sates that i was talking about. the sort of things that can listen for the ping or flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder under water. you start to concentrate things. another thing thats really important about this is where the satellite has seen the objects is in the area where they had narrowed the search. its about the size of colorado. it sure is better than what we had before, which is no idea. this a...

>> good tuesday afternoon from the news deck. theres word that the jumbo jet missing for four days now flew to an area where it should never have been, without any word from the pilot to explain why. nothing. that as the cia contradicts his own counter-port at interpol and says its too soon to rule out a possible act of tar -- terror. there is now evidence that ma shahan airlines 77 made a sharp turn from the flight path. it is headed to beijing. yet right here, over the water, just between viet...

Also, "the wall street journal" is now reporting that the plane, this is the new information, flew up to five hours, five hours after communications went dark. u.s. investigators are now reportedly looking into the possibly that it was diverted to a secret location. the possibly, i say, intended to use for some "other purpose." and there is more new reporting that well get to in a moment from the journal. there are also reports that this plane sent out pingings of data several hours after the la...

Objects floating in the area of the southern indian ocean where searchers are combing for any sign of the missing plane. the malaysian government also revealed today there was another partial ping from the aircraft to a satellite, about eight minutes after the planes last complete transmission, what has been called a handshake and that happened at 8:11 a.m. on march 8th. officials with the satellite company inmarsat say theyre trying to understand what could cause the partial handshake. they say...

The wreckage. because that will tell them what was going on in the final moments. >> which, by the way -- may i ask, those black boxes, that sound, that ping noise, that will emit automatically, correct? thats not something that has to be manually triggered? >> thats correct. actually, theres also an elt that once it hits saltwater, it would begin to send out a signal. and i did hear a report that one was heard, but theres so many reports floating around, i cant be certain about that. however, y...