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Association. david, let me start with you. they have released new search maps today. one of them shows a sonobuoy area, can you explain what that is and what theyre looking for? >> well, sonobuoys have been deployed before, about five or six inches in diameter, when they hit the water they will deploy a float and a transmitter on top of the water. it is a depth that the sono buoy can drop down to. it may not necessarily pick up a pinger, but it could. it is within the 4,000 meter range, but that...

Pings. >> yeah. >> there may have been pings the first 30 days, but they missed them and then they were just searching and searching and searching without any help from pings. >> look, indeed. so this is why angus houston is wanting and commander marks is wanting to stay with the pinger locator to try and cut down the time we need to spend on the bottom looking for this. but, indeed, i mean, were looking at a much greater depth. were looking at an area which we know very little about on the bott...

Clayton sandell, perth, australia. >> you heard clayton say, they dont want to confirm anything yet. and the man heading this search, angus houston, is saying hes not willing to confirm anything until someone lays eyes on the wreckage, on the debris. thats not going to happen for quite some time. were talking about a sea floor nearly 15,000 feet deep. thats an incredible distance. even if they do go down, it could take days before they reach the sea floor. >> thats right. they are optimistic tha...

Will find the planes wreckage. fresh signals detected by the pinger locator aboard the "ocean shield" brings that to four signals, all located within 17 miles of one another. the man in charge of the search detailing the discovery and where things go from here now. >> the analysis determined that a very distinct and clear signal was detected at 33.331 kill aowe hertz and it consistently pulsed at a 1.106 second interval. i therefore assess that the transmission was not of natural origin and was ...

Statement from the fbi spokesperson in pittsburgh. let me read it to you. the fbi is assisting police at this time. right now, it is currently being investigated on the local level. the fbi is playing a supporting role in this investigation. we dont comment on investigationshat are not ours. the important thing to note is that the fbi is helping out as needed. this high school, the franklin regional high school is a crime scene right now. all the schools in that town are closed for that day. the...

Is fantastic. and when it doesnt work there could be trouble. >> but david, i had a quick question for you. isnt this much more simple because youre doing forward drifting instead of reverse drifting? because if you look at all the debris you have to consider all the pieces of debris and where they would have calculated back to a single point whereas now what we have is the pinger and trying to locate that drift forward. wouldnt that -- >> would it make a difference between forward -- >> forward...

Looks like. let me introduce you to james coleman. lets take a look at pinger, because its smaller than i thought it was. >> an emergency locator beacon used in black boxes. this is the pinger sending out 37 1/2 kill low hertz sound. >> this is whats picking it up, right? these are hydrophones. >> different examples of hydrophones. come in all shapes and sizes, underwater microphones, used in a pinger locator to pick up that pinging sound. >> reporter: when it picks it up, it doesnt know were th...

This box. and we can do our small part in helping bring some closure to these families. >> anish, before we go, what is the pressure like if youre looking at almost three miles under on your little pinger? what is the pressure on that thing? >> we certify it to 8700 psi. i think its a little less than that here. but its a lot. >> what is that like? a truck sitting on a bug? im trying to imagine. >> well, weve been able to crush ours at about 10,000 psi, literally crushes like an aluminum can. >>...

Final confirmation until somebody has seen wreckage. okay. im not prepared to go this percentage or that percentage. >> you said you were to wait to get more transitions from "ocean shield." for how many days do you want to keep the pinger locater working? >> the reason we want to do that is that theres no second chances. it looks like the signals we have picked up recently have been much weaker than the original signals we picked up. the batteries are starting to fade and as a consequence the s...

Angel yus houston saying that to come to saying they found the plane without, as he says, "i theyve been able to reacquire want to see some physical the signals they first detected on saturday not once but twice. evidence. "when he says, "im optimistic he did note that the signals that they detect read noticeably we will find the aircraft in the weaker -- detected are not-too-dont future, i believe were searching in the right noticeably weaker than area, not of natural origin, saturdays detectio...