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Away from the first one and then when you get that second one, it creates an x. then you have the two. where the x crosses in the middle is your indication of where the point may be. you then continue on, hopefully get a third. and if that third line of bearing crosses in the middle of the first two, you now have three lines of bearing all meeting in the same spot, then thats a pretty positive indication of where the signal is coming from. so thats the goal as this towed pinger locator moves acr...

Investigations will be done in the future. we have effectively bypassed the haystack and zoning in to needle. which is unprecedented in accident investigations. however, we do need to maintain this that element of cautious optimism, yesterday, during our chief master houstons press conference, i was optimistic and having heard what the air marshal said today, im more optimistic than cautious and theres reasons for that. at least two to three days to go, having spoken to commander william marks e...

Whether or not they are right. stand by, guys. cautiously optimistic. those are the words of the united states navy after weeks of frustration. that counts as a very up beat statement by the navy. im about to speak live with a u.s. navy commander aboard a ship. commander william marks. well talk about what is going on. and a senior owe fiths says the plane veered north before heading south. is that a new clue or a series of mixed messages from malaysia? when it comes to good nutrition...im no ...

That black box dies down, and without a signal coming from that black box, the pinger locator wont be effective, so we were encouraged when we initially had this detection. it was a solid two hours time, then we turned around on a reciprocal course and got another almost 50 minutes, and thats just what you want to do, thats just the profile you want to see. and we were encouraged, however, as every minute goes by, that we cant reakier this this, thats another minute the battery is dying down on ...

After a month of deep frustration, the detection of pings in the indian ocean is being called the best lead yet and the u.s. navy now says publicly its cautiously optimistic. joining us on the phone, commander william marks of the u.s. navys seventh fleet. hes aboard the "uss blue ridge." commander, what do you think? have you found the plane? >> good morning. i cant quite say we found the plane yet. we are working around the clock to reacquire the signal. but there was some encouraging developm...

Cautious optimism to the bank when the navy says it and what i like about this scenario is, first of all, the amount of time that they have heard the pings, the fact that they apparently heard two pings, meaning they might have two black boxes in one location and then the fact that it matches up nicely with those inmarsat circles which weve been talking about for so long. it really verifies what the engineers did, remarkable piece of engineering, using technology that in ways that it was never i...

The first update, the first briefing that hes held with reporters since then. and so we are expecting well at least learn new details about how its going so far. we have heard from the prime minister. he did point out yesterday, john, that it is something that is an enormous effort, a number of countries involved but still no debris. >> it will be very interesting for figure out what he has to say, including on that specific search by this british vessel. kyung lah, thanks so much for joining us...

You said it is the best we can do. to be blunt, are you hoping to get lucky? >> yes, we are. the area, still hundreds of miles big. we fly every day. our p-8 and p-3s. we have flown 300,000 square nautical miles of coverage, until we get conclusive evidence of debris, it is just a guess. >> just a guess. hoping to get lucky at this point. the search for flight 370 its really now just based on educated guess work. thats commander william marks, whom i spoke with overnight. an interesting discussi...

Longer than 30 days and it all depends on where it is. fresher temperature, the ocean conditions all have a factor in that. but, you know, we know if were within a mile, weve proven with our pinger locator, if were within a mile of the signal and its pinging, were going to hear it. so its just a matter of getting all of these navy assets out there, finding some debris, working backwards and getting into position. at this point, every second counts because the closer we can get the pinger locator...

I get a lot of questions about that. i could quote the secretary of defense yesterday. he mentioned that. we have fulfilled every request of the malaysian government and from day one we sent two destroyers out here, we had helicopters out here almost immediately. when the search expanded into the indian ocean, we flew our best planes out here. so right now, this search has -- there are only six p-8 poseidons in the whole world flying fleet missions and this search has two of the six flying in th...