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Families are waited with baited edbathed bretd. indonesia officials are urging caution. theyre preparing people from the worst. from their coordinates they believe the plane crashed in the java sea and underwater. a lot of questions what happened. and why were the other planes in the area that were flying in this same area when the plane went off radar why did they not have any trouble. >> one question is what role bad weather played in the experience of air asia flight 8501 as katie tur mention...

They have taken a sample to be analyzed. heres what he said. >> "ocean shield" detected an oil slick yesterday evening in our current search area. a sample of about 2 liters has been collected, and it will be a number of days before it can be landed ashore and conclusively tested. i stress, the source of the oil is yet to be determined, but the oil slick is approximately 5,500 meters down wind and down sea from the vicinity of the detections picked up by the towed pinger locator on the "ocean sh...

Ship has again heard signals, signals that could be from the jets black boxes. two sounds were heard in the indian ocean lasting just five and seven minutes. and the signals were weaker than they had been. thats a possible sign the batteries on those flight recorders are starting to run out. still, officials hopeful. they are hopeful this will finally point them toward the jet thats now been missing for 33 days. meantime, protesters in eastern ukraine are not backing down. they have taken over...

Recorder and the inflight data recorder. but at the same time, as you mentioned, they are urging caution. they want to verify the results. a process that houston said could take time, take a listen. >> i need to be honest with you, it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh-370. in very deep oceanic water, nothing happens very fast. >> right now the ocean shield is still in the area where it detected these e...

And probably in the search so far, its the -- its probably the best information that we have had. >> the plane and its 239 passengers and crew, of course, have been missing for more than 30 days now. and time is running out on those black box ping batteries. they could already be out. we dont know. nbcs ian williams has more on the new challenges of the search from perth, australia. >> reporter: good day to you, chuck. this is being described as the most promising lead yet, but the search coordi...

Deployed from the australian defense vessel, "ocean shield," has detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes. two separate signal detections have occurred within the northern part of the defined search area. the first detection was held for approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes. the ship then lost contact before conducting a turn and attempting to reacquire the signal. the second detection on the return leg was held for approximately 13 minutes. >> reporter: houston wen...

Pinger locator. tpl. that is strapped to an australian ship -- its what could possibly be signals to the planes black box. today it is all about re-establishing those things. once that happens, the navys mini-subwill be deployed to snap pictures of the ocean floor, which could possibly maybe provide concrete evidence of where the plane ended up? be it nbcs ian williams thats in perth, australia for you. >> it is being described as the most promising lead. the best information in a month of fruit...

Aircraft involved in this, four surveillance aircraft, comprising australia, new zealand and u.s. assets, and the first flight understood to have gone out about 6:00 this morning, so it should be coming back fairly soon. these flights, were being told, were diverted, obviously, to this area where these objects were found. the australian prime minister, as you say, is coming out and saying this publicly, briefing the parliament, which does suggest that this evidence, which he describes as credibl...

Those long runways. if they were looking for somewhere to land, they would have known. certainly a captain of 18,000 hours experience would have known the territory upon which he was flying. so, again, i urge you -- and i know its not very sexy in a way, i urge you to just think of this as a piece of the jigsaw that has been put on the table rather than the picture itself. >> youre urging caution, richard quest. >> i always urge caution. the temp indication -- all right, if you look at what weve...

Monday. were now friday awaiting his response. and the coverage has been split, even on the left and on the right. you have rush limbaugh, arguably one of the most powerful conservative commentatetors urging caution. you have glen beck saying this could be world war iii. the economists saying hit him hard. jimmy carter saying i dont think we should do this. there are all of these different opinions that could be pushing on obamas decision whether or not to go. jon: and are, are the media giving ...