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Cautious optimism to the bank when the navy says it and what i like about this scenario is, first of all, the amount of time that they have heard the pings, the fact that they apparently heard two pings, meaning they might have two black boxes in one location and then the fact that it matches up nicely with those inmarsat circles which we've been talking about for so long. it really verifies what the engineers did, remarkable piece of engineering, using technology that in ways that it was never intended to give us the only lead that we had to go on. it's just amazing that we're hearing pings, ...

The first update, the first briefing that he's held with reporters since then. and so we are expecting we'll at least learn new details about how it's going so far. we have heard from the prime minister. he did point out yesterday, john, that it is something that is an enormous effort, a number of countries involved but still no debris. >> it will be very interesting for figure out what he has to say, including on that specific search by this british vessel. kyung lah, thanks so much for joining us. just a short time ago i spoke with commander william marks of the u.s. navy's seventh fleet w...

You said it is the best we can do. to be blunt, are you hoping to get lucky? >> yes, we are. the area, still hundreds of miles big. we fly every day. our p-8 and p-3s. we have flown 300,000 square nautical miles of coverage, until we get conclusive evidence of debris, it is just a guess. >> just a guess. hoping to get lucky at this point. the search for flight 370 its really now just based on educated guess work. that's commander william marks, whom i spoke with overnight. an interesting discussion. >> it really is. searchers are in a race against time to find the flight data recorders before ...

Longer than 30 days and it all depends on where it is. fresher temperature, the ocean conditions all have a factor in that. but, you know, we know if we're within a mile, we've proven with our pinger locator, if we're within a mile of the signal and it's pinging, we're going to hear it. so it's just a matter of getting all of these navy assets out there, finding some debris, working backwards and getting into position. at this point, every second counts because the closer we can get the pinger locator, the more chance we have of hearing it. so that's why we're -- we have a big push going on he...

I get a lot of questions about that. i could quote the secretary of defense yesterday. he mentioned that. we have fulfilled every request of the malaysian government and from day one we sent two destroyers out here, we had helicopters out here almost immediately. when the search expanded into the indian ocean, we flew our best planes out here. so right now, this search has -- there are only six p-8 poseidons in the whole world flying fleet missions and this search has two of the six flying in the entire world. so it's getting our best assets and as a request comes in, we try to fulfill it the ...