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Went to bed that night she felt loved. >> reporter: a special edition of "newsroom" starts now. good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me. breaking overnight, what's being described as the most promising lead yet in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. the australian naval ship "ocean shield" picked up signals from what could be the dieing batteries of the so-called black boxes. the ship is outfitted with high-tech equipment on loan from the u.s. navy and considered extremely reliable. >> i've heard the -- what we've got is we've got a visual imitation on a screen and ...

Either. >> detect it and find it and find a way to bring it up to the surface and then inspect it. brian, thanks very much. let's dig deeper. right now joining us, richard quest and also joining us here, van gurley, along with sonar technology expert arnold carr. let's say that these pings are coming from the so-called black boxes. so walk us through exactly. if the batteries are dead, how long could it take potentially to find them? >> the good news is, wolf, they've got a much smaller area now. up until now we've been talking about tens and hundreds and thousands of square miles. if they a...

Location which would seem to suggest, as you yourself have pointed out, i believe, that maybe these were coming one from the flight data recorder, one from the cockpit voice recorder, the two so-called black boxes. is that right? >> yeah, exactly. so that was just one of a number of encouraging signs from -- and this would have been the 5th by now. so the first encouraging sign was the length of the detection that we had and then when we turned around we did hear -- it was essentially the same frequency but two different locations and which would correspondent with both the cockpit recorder an...

Have taken before this plane vanished and how the families of those on board are now dealing with this breaking news. good morning, everyone. good to see you. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> and i'm christine romans. it's monday, april 7th. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin and welcome all of our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world beginning with this breaking news. up first, the most promising lead yet in the search for flight 370. overnight, a u.s. pinger locator picked up two separate signals that could be coming from the plane's so-called black boxes. one of ...

Boxes. what if planes were equipped with back-up black boxes that automatically ejected in an emergency situation that would be easier to find. one lawmaker is trying to make that a reality. i asked whether he thinks they should be on all commercial planes. >> i believe there should be. there's been a good deal of study, a good deal of discussion how this might be done. the 9/11 commission recommended this. recently i've directed through homeland security subcommittee which at that point i was chairing i directed national security administration to study feasibility of putting ejectable, float...