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However, were only hearing a report of one ping. we know that the two beacons ping independently and not at the same time. it could be that only one pinger is working. or both are working but one is many miles away. all of that said, also, fred, its possible that this is a false positive. we heard one expert saying, gallo, saying earlier today that air france 447, their equipment had a false positive. we know that hms echo, the british ship, this week they also reported a false positive. so to g...

David g oorallo, appreciate tha. tom fuentes is a cnn law enforcement analyst and retired navy captain in seattle. so, art, let me go with you first. you just heard from david gallo who says the next step is critical. are you in agreement with that and, if thats the case, what are the next steps to try and verify what this chinese ship says it has deteged? >> certainly. i am in agreement with david. number one, the signal is not the signal that the pinger on the aircraft would put out would be a...

Should answer for us? >> yeah. jeff, its richard quest in new york. the ceo of malaysia airlines says that the batteries on the pinger were due to expire in june of this year. now, those batteries are normally -- have quite a long life span. should we be concerned that even though theyre not at the expiration date, theyre pretty close to it, and would they still have had sort of maximum oomph if you like? >> so our design and validation process does confirm at the end of six years that the devic...

Particular, allows you to really sweep and map the bottom fairly thoroughly. you can do this out to several kilometers each site. a matter of range in where you do it is more of a matter of the size of the target. but you could do a kilometer each side in searching for this aircraft down on the bottom. >> the sonar. sorry. go ahead. >> yes. the pinger is a great instrument and its helped us a lot. we put divers in the water to find the recorders, the black boxes, the divers using tracking in on ...

Days, 20 days. it should last about 30 days. but once they get a hold of the black box, then theres no life-limited issue there in terms of the data inside of it. whether they get it tomorrow or five years from now, the data will still be there. >> right, yeah, so the battery life depends on the pinger, not the information itself, so that will still be there. how do you think this changes the search, if at all? >> well, i think it would change the focus of the search, because its in another quad...

Because of the limited range of the pinger. it is much more difficult than that. >> peter goles, you have been paying close attention for a month. what do you make of the latest developments? >> im very skeptical along with everyone else. the chinese have not been good team players. many thought they have been manipulating the situation. as mr. stone will tell you and other sonar experts will tell you, this is not easy business. you know, when i was at the ntsb, we had a number of open ocean sea...

Do the same thing. there are a lot of possibilities for sonar pulses and the fact this one detection, you know, i hope it is the pinger. we all do. that is my view. >> cautiously optimistic is how we sum up the group. peter stone and michael kay, please stand by. whats next for the families? deal with the grief and turmoil? has this added to the potential for litigation? abo nd we t not . (agent) i understand. (dad) weve never sold a house before. (agent) ill walk you guys through every step. (d...

So im hoping that the ship that heard it is running patterns to try and go back over that site again, but it may also be time to launch sonar buoys to bracket the area to see if we can hear anything further. its a question of if this is the pinger, this is pay dirt. this is the jackpot. >> and les? >> what id like to see is in this day and age of tremendous communication among everybody, that this communication is provided through the chinese government directly to the task force. >> all right. ...

They want to do that. but at this point, i think the pinger is one thing that they will continue to use until the batterys out or maybe its already gone. but then they can do the underwater search, the side scan sonar and other underwater technologies to locate it as they did in air france, realizing however that air france had those system status update messages. it was a wonderful cascade of little messages from the plane telling us they had problems so we knew right where it was. but i do thi...

Signal that theyre being specific about saying because that is the frequency upon which this pinger is supposed to be transmitting. so from that point of view, you know, they havent just heard something. theyve heard what they believe to be the right frequency of 37.5 kilohertz per second in the south indian ocean. and the also its widely understand that can the chinese ship involved has been very much concerned in the efforts to detect the signal of the black box. it arrived friday, north of th...