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On the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. >> actually, a lot of news coming from the prime minister this morning, who seems to be very confident, saying that four signals detected by a u.s. pinger locator are coming, he says, from one of the plane's black boxes. he's that confident. >> right now at least ten planes, 14 ships are scouring the smallest search zone to date. crews are focused on an area in the indian ocean about the size of massachusetts and connecticut combined. you may recall that at one point the search zone was about the size of the continental u.s. >> but time is tickin...

That's barely a fifth the size a week ago and still very large. and listening area, some distance away, is even smaller still. if you think that means searchers are much closer to finding the black boxes the usa navy agrees. the spokesman for the navy's seventh fleet operating the pinger locater telling cnn that he says he agrees with the australian prime minister who seems almost certain that the pings in the water are coming from the flight's black boxes. >> numerous transmissions recorded which gives us the h h hawaii degree of confidence this is the black box from the missing flight. >> it...

Possibility of the pinger being located, then what they would normally do is basically try to develop from the surface ships, a 3-d map of the topography to get a real good understanding of what the terrain is. after that, they would be able to put down the underwater vehicles and be able to create missions based on whatever the underlying bottom topography would be in the area. >> anish patel and fred hegg, you added value. thank you so much. my next guest says despite headlines around the world, you are the safest you have ever been. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up...

Fascinating i was asking the researchers how does the sound travel because we've been hearing that the ping has a two-mile radius and here's the easiest way to explain it. here's how they put it, low-pitched sounds travel very far in the ocean. high-pitched sounds don't travel as far. and this pinger, jim, is a high-pitched sound and so they say that's why it has this two-mile radius and then, of course, i had to follow up with this question. i said because one of the complicating things about the search is just how deep the indian ocean is. in parts of the indian ocean it's deeper than two mi...

Than some assumed. >> a skilled pilot might have been able to pull that off. i looked at the sea that morning. it was docile day. weather pattern was clear. the winds were light. sea state was pretty manageable. now, it wasn't like glass on the hudson river which sully sullenberger had the good fortune to have. nonetheless, one of the things that pilots train for is this idea of how you would ditch. you either go parallel to the swells or at the very least you go on the back end. you never fly into a swell. was it possible it is a hearty aircraft and -- certainly might have broken up but could...