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Me now. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, gretchen. >> the fact that we're seeing these pings and they're getting closer and closer is all good news, right? >> it's positive news. those pings are selected because they are unnatural in nature. so i'm going to assume 90% that's where the aircraft is, in that area, size of los angeles, like looking for a pc. but now with that search area down and if the pings stop, you launch the bluefin. >> it's interesting because the australian prime minister says officials are confident now that those signals are from the plane's black box. yesterday on th...

Now they've had five separate instances where they picked up sound from underneath the water. that has to be good. >> it is, it is very good. then they can nair vo the search area when they put the unmanned subs down with the side-scan sonar. even with the pings, it will take many days if they're lucky and many weeks if they're not, to locate it under the ocean. the more pings the better. you can zero in on where you want to be. >> at what point will they decide to send those drone submarines under water to start looking for these black boxes? >> when the pings stop. as long as they can keep z...

Naval base on their western coast. the reason we're here is because we're monitoring the movements here of ocean shield. you see it. you can't miss it, really, it's bright red, docked here at the naval base. it arrived here over the weekend. crews have been very busy here. they've been outfitting this ship with u.s. navy technology that we hope is going to really help in this search. there is the tpl, that towed pinger locator. it's basically a giant underwater microphone. you tow it behind the ship and it listens for the fading ping from the cockpit voice recorder and inflight data reporter. ...

This is australia's largest naval base on their western coast. the reason we're here is because we're monitoring the movements here of ocean shield. you see it. you can't miss it, really, it's bright red, docked here at the naval base. it arrived here over the weekend. crews have been very busy here. they've been outfitting this ship with u.s. navy technology that we hope is going to really help in this search there is the tpl, that towed pinger locator. it's basically a giant underwater microphone. you tow it behind the ship and it listens for the fading ping from the cockpit voice recorder a...