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Jon: more to talk about tonight on "special report". thank you. patti ann: a fox news alert. a breakthrough in the search for flight 370. ships are deep in the indian ocean consistent with those of a plane's black box. it's being called the most promising lead so far. but time is not on the side of this multi national effort. chief intelligence correspondent is live in washington with more. >> thank you. it's the highly fluid situation this morning and if there is another positive hit, the australians heading up operation ocean shield say the search will go to the next level. >> if another aco...

The pinger in the area to locate was it within a couple miles? 100 miles? >> what i might do is ask the, one of the subject matter experts commander leafy to address your question he might add on some challenge as associated with work being done underwater. as you've heard most of the, all of the detections happening at the moment are acoustic. you can think of listening for sound, microphones. over the ping locator sitting aprochlly 3,000 meters below the ocean. unlike in air, where sound travels in a straight line, sounds through water is affected by temperature, pressure and that has affect...

>> first, you have to reacquire and try age late the location of the boxes. then you've got to drop down the remote vehicles and that is more difficult than it sounds. it's not as though they're going to run down and hit it on the first run and they may decide to do side scanning sonar which is, again, a very tedious process of mapping the debris field. so it could be weeks away before we know. >> if that beacon only -- the battery's about to go out, we're told, let's say the battery's got a few more days left. with a little luck, maybe it does. if the ping locator is within two or three miles...

>> there will be another you and will never be another mickey roone flee he leaves behind his 8th wife and family. >> thank you, kelly. to another fox news alert the search for the missing flight 370. several signals by two of the search chefs in the indian ocean. david piper joins us from bangkok, thailand with the latest. david? >> good morning. there's no finding the plain yet but they have strong leads. chinese australian ships have sounds in the indian ocean they could be coming from the plane's black boxes. they dragged a ping locator behind it deep in the sea. they have been sent to aus...

Scans on the ocean surface turning up no signs of any kind of aircraft debris. the australian search leader is admitting while the pings are a promising lead, and i'm going to quote him, we have to get confirming evidence. back in malaysia, the authorities are confirming flight 370 was never picked up by radar in neighboring indonesia. and as you can see on that map, the source telling cnn the plane flew around indonesian airspace before finally heading south. making a very curious northern arc. so what's next? tops on the wish list for the u.s. navy captain in charge of the ping locator is to...