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Families are waited with baited edbathed bretd. indonesia officials are urging caution. they're preparing people from the worst. from their coordinates they believe the plane crashed in the java sea and underwater. a lot of questions what happened. and why were the other planes in the area that were flying in this same area when the plane went off radar why did they not have any trouble. >> one question is what role bad weather played in the experience of air asia flight 8501 as katie tur mentioned the weather could hamper the search efforts want to and tomorrow. bill karins joins us with more...

They have taken a sample to be analyzed. here's what he said. >> "ocean shield" detected an oil slick yesterday evening in our current search area. a sample of about 2 liters has been collected, and it will be a number of days before it can be landed ashore and conclusively tested. i stress, the source of the oil is yet to be determined, but the oil slick is approximately 5,500 meters down wind and down sea from the vicinity of the detections picked up by the towed pinger locator on the "ocean shield." >> reporter: urging caution, too, angus houston there saying we don't know what that is, we'...

Ship has again heard signals, signals that could be from the jet's black boxes. two sounds were heard in the indian ocean lasting just five and seven minutes. and the signals were weaker than they had been. that's a possible sign the batteries on those flight recorders are starting to run out. still, officials hopeful. they are hopeful this will finally point them toward the jet that's now been missing for 33 days. meantime, protesters in eastern ukraine are not backing down. they have taken over government buildings in donetsk and elsewhere saying they deserve a vote so they can break away ...

Recorder and the inflight data recorder. but at the same time, as you mentioned, they are urging caution. they want to verify the results. a process that houston said could take time, take a listen. >> i need to be honest with you, it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh-370. in very deep oceanic water, nothing happens very fast. >> right now the ocean shield is still in the area where it detected these events. it's moving outward from that location in an ever expanding square shape. the hope being that...

And probably in the search so far, it's the -- it's probably the best information that we have had. >> the plane and its 239 passengers and crew, of course, have been missing for more than 30 days now. and time is running out on those black box ping batteries. they could already be out. we don't know. nbc's ian williams has more on the new challenges of the search from perth, australia. >> reporter: good day to you, chuck. this is being described as the most promising lead yet, but the search coordinator is urging caution. they are today working round the clock to try and reacquire the signal ...