-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. >> and welcome to our continuing coverage of malaysia flight 370. to our viewers around the world and in the united states we thank you for joining us, dramatic developments in the search for the airplane and the data recorders to tell you about. search planes and ships are heading for an area where chinese searchers have twice detected electronic pulse signals in the indian oceans. the australian ship "ocean shield" has picked up acoustic noise as well with its listening device. >> this morning we were

contacted by the chinese authorities and advised that haixun 01 had late yesterday this afternoon redetected the signals for 90 seconds within two kilometers of the original detection. this is an important and encouraging lead but one which i urge you to continue to treat carefully. >> that was the head of the search operations mr. houston, who wants -- warns it is not confirmed at this point that any of those signals are coming from the missing boeing 777 voice recorders. but on friday a chinese patrol boat reported the detection of a pinging like signal from deep in the ocean that lasted 90 seconds. it was the same frequency that airplane flight recorders emit. that was is microphone they were

putting in the ocean that detected it. and planes saw white objects in the water 90 kilometers away. no confirmation they are related to the airplane. but they are investigating that. let's go to perth, australia. paula newton was at the news conference where we heard about these developments about two and a half hours ago. and you noticed a little bit of change in the air with this news conference as opposed to ones that we have heard earlier when they made other announcements. >> yes, definitely a lot of momentum there. they are no longer searching blind. they have clear indications there might be pinging under the water. you have two with the chinese ship and one with that "ocean shield" the one with the "ocean shield" is out there trying to verify or discount it.

if is it discounted they will move to the location of the chinese ship. the location is the southern sector of the search zone. they decided to do that from refined satellite information and this will mean their assets will be concentrated in that area. but we are still talking about days at least in plural that we're going to be talking about this and whether or not they can verify whether or not the black boxes are beneath the surface. the families learned about this last night. and chief houston says he really had a presence of mind that they were taking in this news as we were and the roller coaster emotions associated with it. >> we need to keep in the forefront of our minds the families and friends of the 239 passengers who are on board the flight. speculation and unconfirmed

reports can see the loved ones of the passengers put through terrible stress and i don't want to put any further -- put them under any further emotional distress at this very difficult time. >> now the problem started here, though when the chinese news agency, xinhua reported what happened on the ship done without any context or word from headquarters back here. chief houston resigned to the fact that reporter are on the ship. liaison with the chinese is improving. they are going to add another officer to their command structure here and he met for several hours last night with the chinese ambassador. all of this, quite plain to see that they want that liaison and communication with the chinese contingent to improve. they need that to improve, not just operationally but so the flow of information can continue

in an accurate manner to the families. >> absolutely. the chinese do have the most assets in the search. but we do know that the "hms echo" is headed to this area to try to confirm what they heard. what is remarkable about this development has to be that this came in the ninth hour of thinking that time was running out if it had not run out to hear anything. >> well if it is verified it will be a stroke of luck. the batteries are supposed to time out today. they are noun known to work for longer time, eight, ten days afterwards. but they are on borrowed time with the batteries which is why they are trying to get as much equipment involved so they can verify their exact location.

even if they find it, you are talking about 4,500 meters beneath the surface of the water. you are still talking about a very pain staking process to try to salvage the black boxes. it's another reason that chief houston is telling everyone we should approach all of this news with caution. >> another good reason indeed. thank you, paula newton for us live in perth. just a short time ago i spoke with peter goles. i asked what this may mean that it happened not once but twice. >> it's not uncommon that both of the black boxes, the voice recorder and the data recorder are located near each other so they picked up a second ping and held it for 90 seconds is very compelling. i agree with the air marshall

houston that you cannot jump to conclusions. but, boy, this is an encouraging lead, probably the most encouraging we've had so far. >> and occurring with time running out. what will it take for verification? what kind of technology will "hms echo" bring or hear something more? >> my understanding is that the chinese vessel had a hand held device listening device, which is you know rudimentary. it can pick up the sound. but it's got limited range and limited accuracy. the "hms echo" has far more sophisticated listening devices. it will be able to -- if it picks up the ping it will be able to pinpoint its location relatively quickly. i mean it's still a challenge.

but it's -- it has the equipment on board to lock in where this ping is coming from. >> and what about mr. goelz the challenge of the depth once there is verification we are talking about some 14,000 feet down where this signal could have come that's 4500 meters. >> well the depth of the ocean there is certainly a challenge. but 14,000 feet is by certainly -- is certainly not unworkable. the remote vehicles, both the t tethered and untethered. it is challenging and it has been done in the past.

>> more encouraging analysis from an expert there. our meteorologist is here. he has been looking at the depths that we're talking about and the challenges and the fact that there's really nothing else at this depth that could be perhaps making some sounds. >> it would be unusual. we know that 37.5 kilohertz because they don't want confusion when it comes to find this device. and that is the sweet spot to be able to rule out sea animals in this depth. when you in these depths it's pitch black and the temperature is 2 to 3 degrees celsius and crushing as far as the pressure is concerned. most animals that are here are invertbrates. and about 7

2% of our planet are oceans. maybe there is something else we don't know. that's why they are saying be cautious. we know less about the oceans than our solar system. you look at the perspective. the depth of scale. the 4500 meters, there you go. if you were in the world one trade center you could stack nine on top of one another and then reach the surface. and mount washington and you can see how it measures in depths beneath the sea surface. so still expansive region. if you go beneath the surface you find a broken oceanic ridge. and the ping detection at 14,700

and there are plateaus up to 4900 meters. it will be challenging to locate this regardless of this. but the conditions will make it interesting. and i touched on how temperatures is generally just above freezing. but there are thermal vents that could make the detection sporadic. maybe this is why the signal is not consistent. the temperatures vary in this region of the ocean too. >> we want to get reaction from beijing about these developments. many families of the chinese families are staying there. pauline chu is telling us earlier that some of the families who went to kuala lumpur are returning to china and they wanted to try to take a mental break for the weekend. that might be hard to do now

with this development that's being called an important lead. >> yeah, natalie, those relatives who had gone to kuala lumpur had left beijing a week ago. there were about 30 of them. they were so frustrated with what they say was a lack of answers from malaysian officials here in beijing. they wanted to get closer to the source of the information. but we are also being told that they decided to come back and they are supposed to arrive later on this evening before the news broke about these possible pings. so we just have to keep that in mind. we presume their travel plans are still coming back. it would make sense. many were reluctant to go in the first place. many didn't have passports and worried about the language issue and there is just a bigger community of the family members here. about 350 to 400 and they meet on a regular basis. you mentioned this mental break. going into the weekend i spoke

with the relatives of course, understandably, they are so exhausted. they've been under so much stress. and the chinese government is getting worried about them, especially the older relatives. there are several parents here wondering what has happened with their sons and daughters who are on the plane. so the government has offered to take anyone who wants to, to go out to the outskirts and they are supposed to be heading out right now to the outskirtds of beijing for fresh air and a santorum for health checks and physical exams for anyone who wants to check out their condition. but with this news about these possible pings i've been talking with some relatives they're viewing this with a lot of caution because they have come across so many false leads already and they know that the australian vessel will not get there at least until monday afternoon at the earlier. so they want get any sort of

definitive information until then. so for the moment they are choosing to exercise caution and choosing to have this emotional mental break on this sunday. >> certainly understand that. because they have been on quite a horrific ride for the past month. thank you pauline. coming up we'll have more analysis on these developments in the search for the plane and what they're hearing or possibly hearing in the southern indian ocean. let me get this straight... [ female voice ] yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort. exactly, no discomfort, because it's milk without the lactose.

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welcome back. we're following important new developments in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. crews are investigating sounds detected by ships in the southern indian ocean. they could be from the missing plane's flight data recorders. those developments were discussed by angus houston. he spoke about three hours ago. and michael kay, a retired royal air force pilot and former adviser to the uk defense ministry was listening and wrote down some of the key points of what houston had to say for us. >> i think this was a calm, measured and effective response

by air chief marshal houston. he hit a number of critical points and i'm looking toward the family and loved ones at this point. he confirmed that the ping wasn't verified. i think that's very important just to reduce everyone's expectations. he then said he was talking to the rcc in china, the rescue coordination center in china. we have been talking about the importance of establishing that communication with china and bringing in that information. he then said that all credible leads will be followed up. and again that reassures the families they're not going to gloss over this. that's great. and finally the importance of this really came through when he said he was going to redeploy the assets. and i think that's what he is doing. that places a real importance of how significant this ping is. >> so up until this new information, perhaps the most important lead so far that we

have. there have been mainly questions and so few answers to what has become one of the most baffling aviation mysteries in history. jim clancy has been in kuala lumpur from the beginning. >> reporter: flight 370 was listed as delayed six hours after it disappeared -- >> we have breaking news. malaysia airlines confirms they have lost contact with the plane. the flight was headed to beijing from kuala lumpur a boeing 777-200 expected at 6:30 a.m. local time. it's 9:00 in the morning in beijing, the plane is two and a half hours late. >> the confusion, concern and fear at that hour was predictable. everyone dreaded the worst, a terrible accident. >> the airline has confirmed that this flight, mh-370 lost

contact with air traffic control at 2:40 a.m. this morning. >> most people at initial stage thought it was a straight forward crash and it would come down south of vietnam and the wreckage would be found very quickly. a lot of people took a hands off approach. >> reporter: malaysia waited to show the details of its radar the airplane reversed course. >> how much of a turn back? >> we are still look at that. >> reporter: suddenly anything became possible. wild theories fed fears of a terror plot led by two young iranians who boarded with stolen passports. they weren't terrorists just trying to begin new lives in

europe. suspicions shifted to the only people capable of flying the 777, the pilots, zaharie shah, some suspected that he practiced the flight on his home simulator. but an analysis by the fbi turned up nothing. no claim of responsibility, no known ties to terror groups among passengers or crew, no motives supported by evidence. analysis of satellite handshakes took the search to the area where it likely ran out of fuel. with the plane all the evidence of what happened on the flight data recorders. >> we cannot be certain of ultimate success in the search for mh-307. but we will spare no effort, that we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can. >> reporter: who steered the plane off course and why?

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recapping new developments. search planes and ships are heading for an area where chinese searchers have twice detected electronic pulse signals in the owner indian ocean. that word from australian authorities who also say that the australian ship "ocean shield" has picked up acoustic noise as well. here's the announcement made a few hours ago. >> this morning we were contacted by the chinese authorities and advised that haixun 01 had late yesterday afternoon redetected the signals for 90 seconds within just two kilometers of the original detection. this is an important and encouraging lead. but one which i urge you to continue to treat carefully.

>> and again, of course, family members of the missing crew and passengers have been in an agonizing holding pattern for four weeks now. who's to say what they are making of this, if they are hopeful or if perhaps their hope for the miracle could be dashed in the next few days. as nic robertson reports for us, the torment of not knowing has been taking a tremendous toll. >> reporter: prayers and remembrance before many are ready to believe they are needed. in one of kuala lumpur's elite boarding schools, 800 students and their masters, together in support of alumni struggling with the loss of loved ones on flight 370. >> for the family, it will take some time for them to -- before they can accept it and the facts

and along the way we want to be with them. >> reporter: this man, his wife a passenger aboard the plane came to the prayers seeking spiritual solace. >> our thoughts are with you. >>. >> thank you. >> his son at his side. both bereft. the burden of not knowing taking its toll. he preferred prayers over a government briefing for families held at the same time. across time as the government briefing ended there was frustration, relatives saying it was a waste of time. officials, they said, could not even say if 370 had crashed. one among many complaints. >> translator: they said the plane went to the south china sea and now it's at the indian ocean and after the indian ocean, where next?

>> reporter: it's the second time this school had organized such prayers. there will be many more across the country. the grieving here is far from done. in the absence of certainty, prayer's the only hope. >> i keep praying that -- is good. but still at the same time we aware with the information that we get, we may not be able to see them again. >> reporter: a pain few here are ready to bear. nic robertson, cnn kuala lumpur, malaysia. >> you can keep up with the day's breaking news of course at our website at cnn.com. you will find all the latest developments and much more on the internet. to our viewers in the u.s. thank you for joining us for our

continuing coverage and these developments involved in the search for the missing airliner. for our viewers around the world i'll be right back with our headlines.

a high-tech aircraft, an experienced crew. and 227 passengers. what began as routine flight for

malaysia airlines 307 became the total opposite leaving behind unending grief and unanswered questions. flight 370, the final hours. here in the cockpit of this malaysian airlines plane, the captain trains this co-pilot to fly the aircraft. calculations, notes and a rare towering storm to avoid. >> yellow and red. >> adjustments made, the trainee touches down moments later. a perfect landing. it's february, 2014. and the trainee is fariq hamid.

weeks later, hamid would again in the right-hand seat this time as first officer of malaysia airlines flight 370. march 7, 2014, kuala lumpur, malaysia. millions of people are on the move, including philip wood, a 51-year-old ibm executive. in beijing the day begins as usual for his partner. >> i drink coffee and look over the sunrise. we live next to an apple orchard. i do yoga and eat my eat meal and -- oatmeal. >> reporter: phil will take a red eye home to sarah in

beijing. paul weeks needs to make it thousands of miles inland, all the way to mongolia. >> he was doing this for the right reason. >> he is an engine, husband and father of two young boys. >> he spends so much time with his kids. takes them to the zoo. >> in fact, preparing the boys was a major issue before paul left for his 28-day assignment abroad. >> this is a big change for the family. we prepared lincoln. paul had bought him a painting pad to skype him and a map with where daddy was going to be. >> when weeks left home he told his wife he was leaving a few things behind. >> my wedding ring and my watch. if anything happens to me i want to go to the first son that is married and the watch to the

second. and i said something to him like, don't be stupid, just come back and i'll give it back to you and you can give it to them. >> hours earlier, first officer hamid and captain zaharie shah passed through security at the airport. >> miles o'brien is an aviation expert for cnn. >> talk about the route and turbulence and with all in mind they will come into an agreement with how much fuel to load. >> they load enough to get to beijing and 45 minutes to spare. hours later, philip wood, paul weeks and 225 other passengers arrive for the flight. bags checked, boarding passes printed. among them, a group of chinese painters returning from an exhibit of their work.

a family heading back from vacation with their toddler. two iranian men traveling on fake passports, passengers flying for business and pleasure as well as the flight crew. in the cockpit the captain and first officer make their final preparations. >> oxygen, check, instruments, yek. >> in a simulator, we see the pre-flight prep. >> it's going into this system here. >> the pilot loads the route, programming the aircraft to fly to its destination. >> and it's essentially step-by-step going to take this plane to beijing. >> the plane is ready. before taking off, paul weeks sends a message home. >> this counts as one day. that means it's only 27 days until i see you all again.

>> around 12:30 a.m., malaysia airlines 370 pushes back from the gate and gently eases toward the runway. the aircraft is cleared for takeoff. >> let's go. >> yeah, all right. so the brakes are off and everything is set. >> the captain boosts the massive engines. the plane roars into the sky. it's altimeter tracking its climb. now airborne air traffic controllers pick up the flight. >> you have a squawk code in your transponder which turns your radar return into something with a lot of information on it. it includes the flight number and the speed and the altitude. >> coming up to 17,000 feet. >> this is malaysia here and there is vietnam here.

>> as the plane reaches a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, the pilots can relax a little. so can the passengers like paul weeks and philip wood. it's 1:19 in the morning and a voice from the cockpit addresses air traffic control, good night, malaysian 370. for flight 370 it's been a routine evening. coming up, an aircraft with 239 people aboard vanishes completely. >> it's got be some practical joke. and then it stayed missing and stayed missing.

this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm natalie allen. we are getting more information and more developments on the missing malaysian airliner. we have been reporting about the

search in the southern indian ocean where they have picked up some possible pinging sounds they continue to explore and now our nic robertson has new information. he is live in kuala lumpur for us from there. nic? >> natalie, we have new information about the flight path of malaysian airlines flight 370. we understand from a senior malaysian government official that when the aircraft took off, we know that this -- the aircraft took that left turn from its original track on its way to beijing. we now know that after it flew across malaysia it then skirted around indonesia and indonesian air space before getting on the southern tract to the southern indian ocean that the inmarsat handshake data was providing investigators. so what we now know from this

official is that the -- joining the dots on the first part of the route that initial turn back and flight across malaysia now we know that the flight flu around indonesia, skirting the curt and its air space. this has been put together subsequent to receiving information from neighboring countries about what their radars have seen. this is how this information is being derived. it's important information is because it shows that after the aircraft certainly flew around indonesia it took another significant turn to take this left-hand turn, if you will, to fly south down the flight path at the end of which the search operation is underway now. and the path of the aircraft gives the impression that whoever was flying it was trying to avoid detection by indonesian

radar systems by flying around it. this does join up the dots and does make the flight path wholly complete apart from where it finally terminated. it's information from this particular official derived, as i say from radar information put together from neighbor countries. >> it adds to the bizarre mystery of why and what was going on. is this information part of the reason we keep hearing from malaysian authorities that they still believe that this was a criminal act and not any kind of on board emergency or a plane under duress? >> it certainly appears that way. the initial left turn, if you will, turn back from that flight path to -- on its way to

beijing, there was obviously the speculation that perhaps there was an emergency. the plane turned around and flown back to malaysia and had continued along, this indicates another turn in the flight path. we have heard all along from malaysian officials that they believe as part of the investigation that whoever was in control of the aircraft was knowledgeable about the aircraft and knew what they were doing and how to fly it. now this skirting around indonesia as this senior government official says, it does appear as if they were trying to avoid the radar detection of indonesia. this is going to give investigators a lot more perspective on what to go on here, that this aircraft appears -- appears to have been flying in a somewhat evasive way that it didn't want to be

tracked. knowing that it was under control of someone. knowing that the passengers on the aircraft had been ruled out of the investigation, the 12 crew on board remain under suspicion it gives the investigators another piece of the puzzle to work on and one that's going to inform them again that perhaps that initial turn back wasn't the result of an emergency. whoever was in control maintained in control of the aircraft and took it on a purposeful route trying to avoid radar detection in indonesia. >> you talk about whoever was in control. this information comes out at the same time you've been recording on they're still trying to figure out who spoke the last words from the cockpit. where is that investigation? why is it so significant, nic? >> it's believed to be significant to investigators because whoever had that last communication would give the appearance of being the last one

in control of the aircraft. it was within two minutes of that that the radar locating information, the secondary systems if you will, the satellite transponder were switched off and when the radio communications ceased. investigators have now played the air traffic controllers recorded conversations with the first officer and the captain, played those to friends and colleagues. now investigators say that so far the friends and colleagues with not identify who it was that had that last piece of the conversation, who said, "good night malaysian 370." we do know the first officer as protocol would dictate would have been the one talking to air traffic control on the ground. once the plane is airborne it could be the captain or the first officer and this is why it's so key to the

investigators. knowing who gave that last transmission is an indication of who was at the controls, continued to be at the controls when these vital other communications were switched off and the plane set about making that left turn off the original track and flying around the northern coast of indonesia, skirting the radar space before getting on the southern track to the southern indian ocean that we know the flight path it took there, natalie. >> it's so bizarre as we learn more about this, just this erratic flight, nic, it seems to point to more questions in some ways than answers, doesn't it? >> for the investigators, they will be looking at this now, perhaps, rather less than looking at it as erratic, more, perhaps as intentional. there have been at least two

intentional turns that we are now aware of. we knew of one. we now know of a second intentional turn and by the word of this senior malaysian government official, not only these turns but an apparent -- an apparent intention to avoid radar detection. it points to -- it points to intention by whoever was in the cockpit. we know they had capable. we've heard that from officials already. they had the capable to fly the aircraft and it now appears intention to avoid and evade detection. that will build a psychological profile that investigators weren't able to apply to this already. obviously the key for them to know, to whom are they applying that psychological profile? at the moment, we don't know. investigators aren't says and they are at a loss to know, they say, whether or not it was the first officer or the pilot, the

captain, or potentially another person. they're not saying that. but the captain or the first officer in the cockpit in control, perhaps a new psychological profile can be added to the dpleimension of th. they have been investigating hijacking and personal issues and also psychological issues. perhaps this begins to direct the investigation down that avenue. >> just yesterday we learned than you were reporting that there are some new tracks to this investigation. they are expanding it and organizing it in a way to look at all of the different aspects as far as from the people on the plane to the operations, to the cargo, et cetera. >> yeah, absolutely. they're organizing it. an airworthiness and operations and medical operations.

the airworthiness looking at the data that's accumulated during all the maintenance of the aircraft, to check that to make sure the maintenance was up to scratch. the operational data will come into play more if they find the black boxes. the operational part of the investigation will be to look at every piece of voice communication and try and map the in terms of the operation of the aircraft. the medical side of course looking at the personnel. looking at the pathologies and trying to estimate what happened on board the aircraft if and when they are able to make medical recovers from the aircraft. that, of course, will provide vital information about what was going on inside the aircraft during the whole of this situation, natalie. >> and while you are reporting

th this there in kuala lumpur we have developments in the indian ocean that there could be pings that could be leading us to the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorders. if those recorders are found, a shot in the dark in trying to find them. if they are able to retrieve them will there be data to the very finish of this flight? >> potentially no. and that's a difficult thing for investigators even going into this. because they know that the data recorders, at least the voice recorder which is always valuable in the final minutes of an aircraft disaster situation, if there has been radio silence through much of the aircraft's flight, if nothing was said in the cockpit in the last 30 minutes or so of its flight then that will be rerecorded over.

there's every possibility that whatever was said in the early stages of the flight will have been recorded over and will have been lost. again, we don't know what was going on the aircraft and what noises there might have been. but every possibility because the flight was so long. if it has been silent it will have been recorded over. the inmarsat through its handshakes has provided some information. will other of that data help fill in the dark unknown spots in this investigation? one would expect the investigators will have their expectations low in some regard because they realize it could well the valuable data could have well been recorded over. those vital minutes where the plane took off from its main course and intended course, will

be the important parts of learning why it went astray and what led it to the southern indian ocean, natalie. >> final question for you, nic. to this moment even though they tried to find something that might speak to whether either pilot had any kind of motive to do something bizarre with this airplane, they haven't found that so far. every time they look at the home simulator of the chief pilot it hasn't produced anything. his friends have vouched for him. >> his friends have vouched for him. his family have vouched for him in a press conference given by the chief of police here. he said in answer to reporters, well the captains wife and daughter are reported to have said he's not a good mental situation and the chief said that's not what they said. so that was really knocked down

by the chief of police. what we do know that has been recovered from that flight simulator, is that the captain, captain zaharie was checking what airports were available to him in an emergency while on a route to beijing and he had been checking about what to do about a decompression in the aircraft. but we are also told by people familiar with the use of these systems that's not out of the ordinary to engage in that activity to broaden and deepen their knowledge. what we're told is there's no information in the flight data recorder that can definnively point to, perhaps, that this incident might have occurred. >> the more clues we get the

more people are scratching their heads over why. thank you for the new information. nic robertson from kuala lumpur. we want to talk to peter goelz, a cnn aviation analyst. he is on the phone with us from washington. and peter, nic robertson reporting that it seems from sources in the malaysian government that this plane purposefully avoided indonesian radar. what do you make of that development? >> well, first of all, is it the first time we've heard anything from -- from indonesia. it's long been a question mark in the investigation. what exactly -- you know, did they know and would they cooperate? it appears as though they've now

shared radar information and that the conclusion drawn is that the flight 370 was purposely driven, you know, to avoid, you know, contact with -- with the indonesian officials. i mean, and it further confirms that what was going on in the cockpit was deliberate, that somebody was controlling the aircraft in a way that -- you know, it wasn't just happenstance. >> right. how difficult is that to know where to put a 777 there over the water not to be picked up by radar over here or radar over there? >> it takes a considerable

amount of skill and knowledge of the air space. and it's not something that is just done, you know, on spur of the moment. it would have had to have been planned. so it's very disturbing. but it's starting to form a pattern that it is pointing with increased emphasis to the cockpit. >> absolutely. because once it avoided indonesian radar and malaysia -- it was wide open ocean, right? other than any kind of slight data that -- they were able to track. >> it's surprising that nothing was found on the flight simulators. but you know, i think it further limits, you know, the

investigative attention to the flight crew. i mean, this is not something that somebody entering you know, the -- the cabin -- the cockpit from -- you know, from the passengers, so somebody wouldn't have that kind of skill. if they had it, the malaysian police would have identified it. they've cleared the passengers. so the attention is focused on the flight crew at this point. >> peter goelz we thank you for your analysis. the search from the indian ocean will continue to explore these fascinating developments as we continue here on cnn. stay with us. this is cnn breaking news. rf beautiful makeup out there to cover up flaws and make skin look pretty.

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