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Reduced. that's why angus houston wants to try to get as many pings as possible. >> as many pings as possible because number one the battery life, the battery is weakening every single minute. that's important to find it as soon as possible. >> the battery life is weakening. he doesn't have a second chance. once the pinger has died, that's it. so why not spend the time getting as many assets in the water. you have the buoys, the ships, the tow ping locate canner. all of these things searching now while they can. >> joe johns said they had no idea whether it was the pilot or co-pilot. that was ...

We are getting into our 5th week now. we have no tangible clues and no debris. this is on pace to be the most expensive search in history. the pinger now is dead or dying. within the next few days if we don't have something, we won't have thig. the prime minister is trying to bo boltster optimism. the families are complain that go they haven't been given information. they are trying to keep people's hopes up. do you agree with nothing to show for it? >> they have four separate in ta stances where they did pick up sound. >> they have some information that leads them to think that

And it was very hard to hear. and we were like maybe 1,000, 2,000 feet away and even when i was in the navy, i was many times looking for black boxes, stuff like that t. it is really, really hard to trust this kind of information because you can have a problem, something around making the same noise and it's very difficult. >> the same noise that is consistent with a black box over a period of time from a number of different times. apparently there have been at least four confirmed by the australian officials and a fifth possible one. even with that you think you are still suspicious of that? ...

Pings or the small short ones that are five minutes and seven minutes and say let's focus on just the ones that we know are within the broadcast area of that box, now, the only one that's really credible as far as that to get distinguishing information is the two-hour ping they got at first. that would indicate that tpl had been towed through the broadcast range of where the pinger is. >> that gives the you the best idea? >> absolutely. >> you are buying the prime minister's confidence? >> if we didn't have the two-hour ping i would be less confident because you don't know if you're just getti...

Intact airplane. something like at least the tail and the wings. the tail being important because that's where the black boxes are. >> you're confident they're right -- that fifth ping had nothing to do with the plane, right? >> i wouldn't say confident on that. again, i'm hopeful. it is the right signal. frequency. and the pulse rate is -- makes me very hopeful that, indeed, it's a pinger from the black boxes. >> the first four pings that were detected, one lasting for about two hours, one for 15 minutes, the third and fourth, five or six minutes each, they had a frequency slightly less than ...