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Have had very few leads which allow us to narrow the search area. obviously, we take any reported lead in the search very seriously. that's why today, royal australian air force assets will report to assist in further examining the acoustic signals in the vicinity where the chinese ship has detected the sounds. "hms echo" and "ocean shield" are also being directed to join the chinese ship as expeditiously as possible to assist with either discounting or confirming the detections. echo is the closest to the site. "ocean shield" will be delayed while she pursued an acoustic noise in her current ...

They bring to verify the underwater acoustics? >> reporter: the first ship in the area, hms echo, british royal navy ship. it has sonar on board. it will get out in the next 10 to 12 hours to sweep the zone the chinese ships have already been over. chinese ships will continue to work as well. they've heard it twice in that zo. they want to go over and see if they hear anything else. the ship investigating the acoustics now. if it's discounted and they do not believe that's the location of the black boxes they'll join the echo and chinese ship already on scene. they have the towed ping locater....

Victor's ready for some right now. >> i am, there's a protein shake on its way to this desk soon. >> it's the bottom of the hour. you just have whatever you want. i'm christi paul. glad to have you with us. >> i'm victor blackwell. a hungry victor blackwell. up first, the beacons that could lead searchers to the black boxes. two ships "hms echo" and australia's "ocean shield" they're trying to detokt those things. the batteries may only last 30 days, and this savran will be 30 days. and voting in afghanistan has been extended by an hour. the winner will secede hamid karzai. number three, o...

Systems. while i'm not dismissing this as a positive, i'd need more information in homing in on where that signal is found. >> if you do find something with this locator that they've been talk about, again, this is a ship, this is not the pinger locator necessarily, will they divert where that pinger locater is to be closer to this chinese ship? >> that would be the thing to do, you know, if they get more information from them. the advantage of the two ships out there, hms "echo" and "ocean shield," hms echo is used a field-based system. it would be essential to get them onsite because they ha...

The pulse, any number of things that could cut off that signal after a minute and a half? >> absolutely. it's like getting a station on a radio, in a car, driving along. you got the station. sounds great. you go another 50 feet and it fades out. then comes back again. if you keep trying to fiddle with the tuning knob, trying to get that big one just right. there's a lot of stuff. there's thermal, thermal layers in the water. there's water that's denser and saucier and thz mountains, valleys, all of that stuff can do that to sound. >> so if the australian navy's open shield, or perhaps even the...