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Have to look at it with caution. this has been reported by xinhua, it has not been confirmed by the australian joint center working on all of this trying to coordinate everything. we have to wait and see what comes out of it. it would indeed be extraordinary if they are able to have located from the pinger from the aircraft itself. hopeful -- certainly. its going to raise a lot of peoples hopes but i really need to see it confirmed by someone else. i need to see confirmed again by the chinese, i...

Fish, they all make sounds. >> reporter: the device can pick up the pinger sounds in depthing ranging from 50,000 feet from two miles away. heres why its so critical to get that towed pinger locater down in the deep ocean. the block box can get stuck is in something called a deep sound channel. if the sound does get trapped there and bounces around, the only way to pick it up may be through one of these pinger locater devices. >> sending the towed pinger down there, the tpl, will put you in that...

It gets it down into that level. it also gets it away from a lot of the surface not. wind on the water creates noise, propellers, dolphins, animals, fish, they all make sounds. >> reporter: the device can pick up the pinger sounds in depths ranging from 50,000 feet from two miles away. heres why its so critical to get that towed pinger locater down in the deep ocean. the block box can get stuck in something called a deep sound channel. about the 2,000 to 4,000 feet below the surface. if the soun...

U.s. residents, people who purchased tickets here or people intending to have the u.s. as final destination. however, there may possibly be claims against boeing which doesnt have the same constraints as malaysia airline. obviously, if we find some information with the latest news about the pinger and eventually leads to the black box, we will have some of the best information to know exactly what happened and that will really tell us which way any possible litigation can go whether it can go ag...

If the pinger is hidden behind a hill, for example, or a mountain or a legit could mask the ping that it would emit and even some sections of the plane could do that. the other problem you have in that area is right now its the advent of winter. so your functional time, efficient time at sea is going to be limited down to maybe several days, a week. >> foria eunice, arnold carr, thank you very much for your expertise. searching for the truth of flight 370, could an insecure cockpit have left t...

Giving a false signal. and it will take -- it could take some hours, or even a day, for one or two of those ships to get onsite to focus in on what the signal >> for those joining us around the world, we have jim clancy in kuala lumpur and former inspector general mary schiavo here with us as well and simon boxall, who is an oceanographer. reported by chinese xinhua, a news agency. i want to be clear about what they are reporting here, a pulse detected. a pulse signal in the south indian ocean a...

Knot nauts listen fog that sound. that area we are looking is 84,000 square miles or so. about the size of utah. >> which is huge. 20th day. four weeks ago tonight. they say 30 days. probably get appear acouple days extra on the pinger. 30 days is what they sell it as. are we going to get 30 days out of this. >> hard to say. there is a lot of factors involved. it could be up to 40 days thats assuming the pinger is sending out a signal and at any time break on impact and its in that area. >> if w...

Dead, whats the best case scenario here? is it still floating debris? and they seem to have changed what theyre looking for in terms of debris from possible large objects to something very very small. >> well, i think the best chances are for that underwater search. at this point they havent turned up any wreckage. they keep refining the data points. thats good. we want them to do that. they want to do that. but at this point, i think the pinger is one thing that they will continue to use until ...

Aid that australia has known about this for several hours since it was lunchtime their time. you wonder why they didnt release anything. does that show that they themselves are skeptical about this? secondly, if its not a pinger based on the fact that it is the exact frequency, the 3.75 that it needs to be -- or 37.5, rather that it needs to be. what else could it be? >> the process of cooperation takes time and it takes a lot of time to make sure that the information that theyre disseminating i...

They cant get ahold of the ship to give them more detailed information a this. >> all right. will ripley there for us. appears air base in perth as we wait for some confirmation whether this is the pinger that has been detected by this chinese patrol ship as reported by chinese state news agency or not. i want our panel to stick around. we will continue with the breaking news as reported by chinese state news agency that not only a pulse signal has been detected by chinese ship but chinese air f...