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Detected. let's start our coverage with erin mclaughlin, live in perth, about 1,000 miles from where that signal was picked up. erin, what are you learning? >> reporter: kate, here in perth, they're saying this is an extraordinary find. the australian vessel "ocean shield" picking up not one, but two. the first lasting two hours. the second lasting 13 minutes both saying consistent with characteristic, with flight black boxes. while authorities here are saying this is promising, they are nudging caution saying more work needs to be done to verify that. to that effect, the "ocean shield" is out...

Part of the team that helped find air france flight 447. good morning to both of you. another day, another set of developments we need to discuss. >> marry i want to ask you, last week, kind of where we ended, it was always thought to this point that we were going to detect debris in from the air. and then you're going to send in the pinger locator and you're going to then start the underwater search. how surprising is it for you, of course, a healthy dose of caution, because we don't know what it is yet, that that they've detected these pings under water? >> well, it's surprising because you'...

Airspace. it's impossible to come up with another scenario at this point. so, the question is what will those -- you know, if they do in fact recover the flight data recorders and there's a lot of optimism about that, what will it tell us? it's very likely the voice data recorder which only captures the last two hours of time will not shed light on thing. the flight data recorders only capture about 80% of aspects. this could do enough. but it could conclusively rule out a failure. unfortunately, human beings don't have black boxes. >> i just know when you have families desperate to know what ...

Welcome back to "new day." good morning to you. breaking overnight. australian naval ship carrying american gear picked up two signals consistent with those that come from black boxes known as pings. meanwhile, stunning news from a senior malaysian official. he tells cnn the jet may have been purposely flying a route around indonesia designed to avoid radar. how can they know that? what is the best evidence of this? is there any? joining us former analyst and fbi director mr. david fuentes. and david soucie author of "why planes crash." better title for your book, david soucie, should be why a...