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Underwater autonomous vehicle. so theyre going to continue to search for vehicles until theyre absolutely certain that the battery has run out. only then will they deploy the vehicle to go underneath the water and try and find the wreckage. and get some sort of confirmation that this is in fact from missing flight mh-370. but certainly encouraging signs out of perth this morning, errol. >> now, as you were speaking there, erin, we saw one of the maps which basically breaks down what the jacc ann...

He was speaking to reporters in perth just a couple of hours ago. it is coming up to 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon. and of course this search continues as they try to find and triangulate with the information they have these four pingers detected now to try and find, locate the mh-370. and another reminder that you can always track fast-moving developments on the missing plane simply by logging onto our website. our address, cnn.com. all right, we are going to take a very short break now. but jus...

More, correct? >> absolutely, in houstons words they want to make hay while the sun is still shining. they want as much information before they deploy the bluefin 21, why? because the bluefin 21 moves a lot slower than the towed ping locater. so they want to narrow down that search field so they have a more precise location as to where this signal is coming from, errol. >> erin mclaughlin live in perth, australia for us. were going to now turn to our aviation expert, miles obrien. he joins us no...

Path of the debris which he suspects may be floating in some of the worlds most treacherous seas. >> that is right, he joins us now from perth. a professor at the university of western australia. we have a couple of maps showing the aerial search zone and the location of the pings. walk us through the massive challenges they still will face as they try and confirm this is mh-370. >> okay, so let me explain the search. they found two signals. that means that they actually are getting the signals ...

That could also hamper things. it is not clear what sort of time table were looking at, rosemary. >> yeah, they seem to be talking in terms of days, which is quite an improvement. erin mclaughlin joining us live from australia, many thanks to you. lets get more on this breaking news from u.s. navy captain matthews. he joins us on the line from perth, australia. what do you make first of all on this development with the two additional pings being detected and the search now desperate ll being n...

But if you had asked me lets say when i arrived last -- last sunday night, i would have been probably more pessimistic than i am now. i am now optimistic that we will find the aircraft or what is left of the aircraft in the not too distant future. >> angus houstongçvav8p there. and lets get more from the search headquarters in perth, australia, erin mcaulifclaughli there and joins us live. and erin, those two signals detected. a great deal of cautious optimism i think we can say. lets listen a...