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I understand when you're conducting the criminal side of an investigation, you need to keep things privileged, but there's a lot of aspects to this investigation that could be shared with the world, and frankly more ears hearing things, the better. just one final thought here. it could have been as simple as the first officer was conducting a public address announcement as they leveled off, and the captain handled that particular radio call. i don't want to put too much into that particular thing. >> yeah. let me bring geoffrey back into this. this fifth ping that they suspect actually came fr...

Resupply, refuel, it's way too long at this point. there isn't enough time to do that. that's actually a crucial thing and i salute the u.s. navy for providing that support right now. the fact is, having located these pingers and reasonably certain that this is kind of on station where the wreckage might very well be, stepping back and not flooding the zone with a lot of resources is actually the right thing to do because, again, you want it to be nice and quiet so that the towed pinger locator can hear those pings. >> miles o'brien, jock wishart, thank you so much. wolf blitzer is here with a...

Charge of the search is fairly confident they will find the wreckage in a matter of days. he thinks it's on the way. what happened here, they picked up the fifth ping. they did that by dropping the sonar buoy, going to a five pings coming from the same general area. so you say that should be easy enough, should should be able to immediately drop down. >> this is where the four pings are. the fifth is in the air so i don't have an exact location for it. the general area is 500 square miles. so the trouble -- at least on the ocean floor. so the trouble is that is a massive area to try to map if ...

Promising new developments in the race to find missing malaysian flight 370. on day 33 of the search, we are now learning australian teams have detected a new underwater signal in the same area of the indian ocean where four previous pings were picked up. there's still a long way to go. hope only gets us so far. tom costello is in washington for us tracking all of these latest developments, as always. tom, what have you got? >> we have a fifth ping. this was picked up by an underwater buoy dropped by an australian air force plane, with a hydrophone that can listen 1,000 feet underwater. it's d...