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Of this journey is certainly going to be the hardest. that's how deep, give or take, the ocean is where those pings are being picked up. and tracing them back takes a whole lot of know-how and probably a pretty serious amount of luck as well. i'm joined now by cnn's meteorologist chad myers in atlanta and from boston the vp and general manager of the company that makes and designs undersea communications gear, including the pingers and also the pinger detectors. chad, i want to start with you. will ripley was telling us about what we have. we have four hit zones but they're 17 miles apart and ...

A british navy ship called "hms echo" is now in the area where the chinese ship detected two audio signals. the echo is equipped with a state-of-the-art sonar that can map the ocean floor. as you know, two pinger detectors picked up sound within 350 nautical miles of ooch other. >> the hmo heck co-in the general vicinity of where the chinese patrol ship detected the pinging sounds on friday and saturday. the goal is to try to find that sound again and either confirm or rule out that it is from the black boxes belonging to flight 370. now, keep in mind this area is different from where the aust...

Possible pings, were detected by the ocean shield's equipment. guess what, there was no debris anywhere, so there's still a lot of unanswered questions. and until you actually can locate something tangible, you have no confirmation this is connected to flight 370. promising, yes, but tempered optimism is a great way to put it. >> will ripley putting in some great hours for us in perth, australia, thank you for that. i'm joined live here in new york by two men with deep expertise in the underwater aspect of this sherif search. a firm that designs and builds advanced underwater communications ge...

A critical point. and signing off. the latest running late night host says he's retiring. you're watching cnn newsroom. we want to welcome our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. our top story, an underwater search for signs of malaysia airlines flight 370 is under way now in the indian ocean. all together 14 aircraft and nine ships will coma area of more than 240 kilometers. but right now they are towing pinger detectors. right now from perth, australia, matthew joins us. we know the batteries powering the signal they're listening for will soon go dead.

All of this debris is going to make a search area that could be hundreds of miles across, which is better than what we have had to date. let's put it that way. so, worrying about a little bit of a mile this way or that with the current, moving the box below the impact point is negligible when you talk about the error and the other calculations. >> except for the fact that we have only a month, so that's about 10 more days and maybe some change beyond that pinging so at least we can locate the debris field and we can sort of go in reverse 500 miles, assume would he go locate it now and it's bac...