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But i think the australians were just being cautious and wanted to have confirmation. >> will ripley is live for us there in australia. will, good morning to you and what have you learned this hour? >> good morning. the bottom line, no, we don't have official confirmation. as we mentioned earlier, the australians first got word of this through some channel, we don't know which channel, they first got word around lunchtime. they've been trying to establish communication with haixun ever since. have not been able to get any information out of beijing which has been disseminated all the facts to ...

Level of skepticism? >> i have a huge level of skepticism, fredericka. as far as radio transmit that signal to show, i'll leave that to the other experts. but in terms of the way this has been handled and both by the chinese and the australians for that matter, i mean, if they were given this information 12 hours ago, that would have been midday lunchtime in australia. and they certainly could have made some announcement that we've received -- don't get all excited and raise false hopes but say here are the facts. we received this information. we're responding to this information. and it will ...

Things, right? >> that's right, fredericka. when you're running a major crisis, you can set up tfansies grid, search, maps devised by investigators but if you receive new information that has a remote possibility of being credible or possible, you change, you make a change, you do something. the problem i'm having with this flow of information is, you know, right now it's almost midnight in australia. if in fact they got this information in the middle of the day 12 hours ago, lunchtime, they had planes up in the air doing their regular search pattern. they had ships nearby. they certainly it l...

Doing their own thing under this broader umbrella. >> i want to go to ocean search specialist mike williamson. we understand from the australians that they were notified of this report by xinhua. it has not yet been confirmed but they were notified around lunchtime, which would be maybe 8 to 12 hours ago, just an estimate there. at what point in this confirmation process should the searchers be now? >> well, actually what i'd like to insert here before i answer your question is 37.5 kilohertz is the unique frequency for these pingers. for the same reason that that frequency was chosen for the ...