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As some of them have said publicly they are not willing to accept until they find hard evidence. >> so richard, the prime minister does not want to come out and say the plane is lost now out of respect for, he says the families. do they still believe it's -- what they initially said it is in the southern indian ocean? >> oh, yes. there's no question the pm believes that. he has very high confidence in the inmarsat data and the pings from the "ocean shield." he makes clear, don, that if that evidence should prove to be inaccurate, well, not to put a finer point on it, it's all they have got. >>...

Move on to the second best hope? >> well, they're going with the best information they have. and let's keep in mind this is the first place they have searched in the southern indian ocean. we expect that they are probably through 100% of that initial search area, and officials here saying they're going to continue search using the bluefin in adjacent areas of that first search. and then this move north. now what that actually means is a big question. it's not clear they can do that with the bluefin or whether they're going to have to reset everything. we know the ocean shield that the bluefin ...

Old area, it's the area that they said was the single most promising area that they have. >> right. yes, although there is the area of the first ping, which is several miles north of there that they could also go to. this is the one they really thought they had it on there might be other parts they want to look in further. if they have to reset, you're talking about bringing in new gear, new search vehicles, possibly new ships, new individuals to help run all of that. possibly the ocean shield would have to come back, fuel up in port and take on resources and then come back out. a lot has to h...

If you think about it, there are potentially these cell phones from the flight and crew. they're almost like these little black boxes, if they can be found. >> all right, that is incredible, mark, 239 pieces of data. is there a way to track these cell phones, if it is at the bottom of the ocean, and you have all of this data. some people have more than one. can you find them now? >> well, you can't use the phones to find the plane. but you can use the phones to find out where the plane was once you have recovered the phone. the problem with the phones were, while they were on the plane there w...

Couldn't happen. bluefin going on behind the ocean shield. there are pings here. if is where they believe the plane went down, guess what happened about ten days after the plane went down? a giant cyclone. 160 miles per hour right over the area down here where that plane went. we believe at least if anything was sticking up, that sticking up stuff would have been blown off to the west. here you go. there's ping location. it could get into the new current and along the coast of australia. it's certainly possible. 1-mile-per-hour and these crazy currents going every little direction back and for...