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>> actually, no. we are probably, if anything, more cautious. by this time, the signal we acquired, it's been almost a day and a half. so we had a solid two hours of detection time earlier. actually, two hours on one course and then we turned around and what you want to do is turn around on a resip pro cal course. and that's how you get a line of bearing. and if they cross, you can get a location of the object. we had two hours of coverage time on one leg as we were towing the tpl and then we turned around and had about 15 more minutes of coverage which was encouraging and then it dropped off....

Relatively near each other, right? >> i would assume that. >> so let's assume -- you agree with that, right? >> right. >> let's assume the chinese -- that that's not realistic, but when the u.s. navy says they've heard beacons coming for two hours from one site and a few hundred meters away from a second site, one for two hours, one for 15 minutes, that sounds a lot more encouraging to me, i assume to you as well. >> that certainly does. >> all right. so what happens next? let's assume because the u.s. navy says -- i'll read to you a line of what they say, acquisition the two signals is encour...

Peter goals is analyst, former ntsb manager director and tom fuentes is our law enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi. leapt's go around the table. we'll start with you, mark. how serious is this? how optimistic would you be based on the information that's been released? >> particularly since a lot of that information came from the u.s. authorities and the navy, that i feel a lot more comfortable with it. still, they're hedging their bet, wanting to make sure, trying to manage expectations. >> the u.s. navy did put out a statement, peter, the 7th fleet, in which they said -...

Confirmation of the black boxes by the tpl again and visual confirmation with the blue fin-21 side-scan sonar. if the u.s. navy says one thing like this, that's pretty encouraging. >> i think it's pretty solid. i'm with miles. this is really phenomenal work done by the engineers and it's really not uncommon that they would pick up both pings relatively close together. if the tail broke off, it might be a little scattered on the ocean floor but this is really good news. >> if they have actually located it, we should know fairly soon that both of these blacks boxes, the flight data recorder, coc...

>> reporter: matthew's team is on the ocean shield using a towed pinger locator or tpl, listening for flight 370's black boxes. >> what i would like to do before i absolutely say with certainty that it is the aircraft, is one reacquire the signal, two deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle with the side scan sonar, and three, switch out that sonar with the camera unit and take photographs of what would be the wreckage. >> slow and tedious work, nearly 15,000 feet, almost three miles down. the extreme depth pushing the limits of the underwater drone. >> certainly we're jumping to conclusions ...