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Well, you're expected to give back. >> let me do what i've got to do. >> we've got to wake up the sleeping giant that's not doing what they need to do. this is cnn breaking news. >> this is a cnn special report, the mystery of flight 370. i'm don lemon. we have breaking news. we are awaiting a news conference on the hunt for the missing plane right now. we're going to take you there live the moment that press conference starts. planes are in the air searching the southern indian ocean for traces of flight 370. 10 military aircraft, 4 civilian jets and 9 ships are crisscrossing an area about ...

Mh-370. using the towed pinger locater from the united states navy, on the australian defense vessel ocean shield and a similar capability on hms echo, the two ships will search a single 240 kilometer track converging on each other. of course, if you want to get into more detail about that, i have the commodore to assist me and will take any questions on that subject. the australian frigate has been tasked to assist with the search. it will take approximately four days to reach the search area. and as i mentioned yesterday, the malaysian frigate will arrive in the search area at 1800 tomorrow.

Much easier to do a visual search if you've got good weather and flat seas. >> in terms of the underwater search, exactly which equipment is going to be deployed today? >> the towed pinger has been deployed today on ocean shield. the search is currently ongoing, and of course, it's not just ocean shield that's doing the search with the towed pinger, but hms echo, the british oceanographic ship, which is coming on a converging course, and it has good equipment for finding things on the floor of the ocean. so those two ships are working together. i'm not familiar with all the equipment that the ...

That and come back at a later stage. >> not even how much australia is spending? >> i think at a future conference i might be able to give you some indicator of how much -- [ inaudible ] >> do you think there could be more towed pinger locaters that can go under water? >> we've got the towed pinger on the australian vessel. but hms echo, the british ship, also has some fairly sophisticated underwater search gear. and we've got a couple other devices that can assist with the search.