fox news alert on the nearly month long search for the missing malaysian jetliner. now there is a possible breakthrough after chinese investigators searching in the south indian ocean say they have detected a mysterious ping potentially belonging on the missing plane's black box. molly has more on this breaking development. >> china state run media saying

that the chinese ship deployed a black box detector into the water in the southern indian ocean and it picked up a pulse signal, a ping, at 37.5 kilohertz, the same frequency that pings are emitted from flight data recorders. also one of their air force planes spotted white floating objects in that search area. malaysian authorities say they're trying to verify the report. there is a healthy dose of scepticism about the ping because it came from the chinese reports. angus houston said today that he had been advised of the chinese report, but so far there is no confirmation that the ping and the floating objects are related to the missing malaysian jet. one fox military analyst says the chinese should have gone through the proper channels with the new information. >> should have especially about a reported to air chief marshall, houston.

he should have september out people to look at it, see if they got the ping again. should have done more due diligence because now they have enthused the whole world and clearly the parents and sisters and relatives, you are viand we position if it doesn't, it will have a great impact i believe on the credibility of the search. >> the batteries on the flight data recorders or black boxes are supposed to last for about a month. the plane disappeared march 8. and today is april 5th. the time is of the essence for those searching for flight 370. >> molly, thanks. and with more the on the multinational search, joining us on the phone, dr. alan deal, former ntsb investigator.he on multinational search, joining us on the phone, dr. alan deal, former ntsb investigator.e on t multinational search, joining us on the phone, dr. alan deal, former ntsb investigator. on th multinational search, joining us on the phone, dr. alan deal, former ntsb investigator.on the multinational search, joining us on the phone, dr. alan deal, former ntsb investigator. the author of air safety investigate the tors, using science to save lives one crash at a time. dr. deal, thanks for being here.

how does science play in this investigation? >> well, we've certainly seen a lot of science displayed, whether the doppler shift on the satellite handshake operation, clearly we don't -- this is still reported and not confirmed, so i guess you'd say we're cautiously optimistic. but obviously science is going to play a big factor especially if it does turn out to be correct as we get the black boxes up. >> and if that does happen, where to next? >> well, i think the sequence it will go, and it probably already has started, i understand there is an aircraft in the area or will be there shortly to try to verify what the chinese are reporting from their ship. i'm just talking about the pinkers oig now. floating debris is another issue. >> let's get to the floating

debris later. let's stick with the pingers for now yet. >> a lot of false positives on the float dag bring debris. but they would accepted the aircraft into help verify this independently of the ship. and then i would imagine they would move in the tow locaters. those are much more accurate as you probably hoe. they can go to great depths. and the pingers don't have a tremendous range. you want to find out exactly where it's at so you can send in the robotic subs with their live scan sonar to try to map the wreck alleage pattern and then probably followed by robotic photographic devices to photograph the wreck. and then they would go after the recorders first after they find those, make the decision what they want to bring up. obviously they want to recover

as much as they can first of all to recover the human remains just out of respect to the families. but they may not -- about this is very deep water, they may decide after listening to the recorders that all we have to do is recover the cockpit area. not say that's what they will do, but that might be a possibility if they sort of exonerate the wings and engine and so on. but they do want to get the fuselage up because of the human remains. from there, there would be a lot of lab analysis. australians have a very good accident investigation group like the ntsb. i helped train them many years ago. so it may well end up in cam barra rather than bringing it back to qcull kuala lumpur.

>> wouldn't the ntsb have a say in that, as well?ck to cull kua. >> wouldn't the ntsb have a say in that, as well? >> by international code, no. malaysians are still in charge of this investigation. the united nations protocols will be followed. so it's up to the malaysians as to where they decide to at that time at that time boxes. i'm suggesting they may well go to australia.that time at that time boxes. i'm suggesting they may well go to australia. australians have a great group down there and they probably could do a lot of this. since they already worked with the malaysians, there could be must have goodwill and confidence built up between the two countries that they would do it rather than the u.s.. >> as long as someone who can really read the signs there can take over that part of the investigation. again, we're not sure exactly what is confirmed. nothing has been confirmed at this point, but we're still trying to figure it out and put the pieces together. dr. alan diehl, a former ntsb

investigat investigator. billions of student misdozens of states starting the common core testing this week. students are opting out in record numbers now. in indiana, already dropping the controversial program as parents are upset over the government dictating what their kids should learn and the data government is collecting. common core could have a major impact on the midterm elections. let's go to the newsroom with more. brian. >> 45 states and washington, d.c. have adopted the common core initiatives, implemented under president obama's first term, testing students grades 3 to 8 on english, language arts and mathematics. morning w new york was one of the first. but this year as many as 30,000 parents in the state have opted out of the test, double last year.

from new york to oklahoma, concerned parts say the testing allows the federal government to dictate curriculum, taking power away from local districts and educators. parent and critics say common core testing is you causing unnecessary stress and anxiety, forcing students to learn a test and nothing else. >> i think that six days of testing for an 8-year-old is egregious. >> i want my children to love to learn. i want them to continue to go to college. and i'm worried that they will burn out before they get there. >> parents say kids are coming home in tears, homework is being replaced with test preparation. the tests are given in 90 minute sessions over six days. many schools are forcing kids who opt out to sit and stare and do nothing in class during testing. advocates say the test is meant to make sure all kids are getting the higher level of

education. >> parts do have the right to encourage their children to opt out. but i think what is most important is what are they opting out of. and do they really understand what that means. >> it's still too early to tell what it all means because the testing just started. but about 100 bills to slow stop or reverse common core requirements were introduced this year, an increase over the year before. parents are angry and also voters. and the midterm elections are coming up. so be prepared to hear about common come over the next few months. >> parents and teachers, too. a lot of teach ers don't like doing it. brian, thanks very much. coming up, $6 billion over six years, a bombshell report revealing a stunning case of the government wasting your tax dollars at the state department under hillary clinton's watch. become very popular.

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this kind of waste from going on. but unfortunately, people are not paying attention. i'm sure hillary clinton will get to explain will during her presidential campaign. >> here are some can examples. contracts related to the war in iraq, 33 out of 115 files could not be found. those contracts alone cost about $2.1 billion in missing funds. the report also shows another 48 out of 82 other contract files which did not include the proper paper trail and those files also came up to about $2.1 billion. in its report, the ig suggests the need for a more organized system and the state department agreed with the auditor's suggestion. the clinton family has not responded to the latest findings. back to you. >> elizabeth prann, thanks. let's talk a bit more about this jaw dropping report, and we bring in charlie hurt for that, columnist at the washington times. charlie, a billion dollars here, a billion dollars there.

what does it matter? it's only taxpayer money. it's not real. it's like monopoly money, isn't it? >> in fact i think that is what is so madenning about the federal government. we have these bureaucrats, this huge amount of money that we can't really even conceptualize. it's a number of zeros that you can't really keep track of temperature i think it's maybe eight zeros for a billion and six for a million, but who knows. it's more money than any of us will ever see. but the way the government is set up is bureaucrats tell us we need this massive bureaucracy in order to maintain all of this and as soon as you look behind will the curtain, you find out they're not doing anything they're supposed to do to keep track of this money. and i don't care whether you're a democrat or a republican and whether you pay a lot of taxes or a little bit of taxes, this is a massive waste of money. it is absolute corruption. we don't know where this money went. but i guarantee you somebody knows where that money went

because a lot of people make a lot of money off of the federal government. >> sure. it's unfathomable that you could actually lose, physically lose, 33 war contracts worth $2 billion plus. if i had to make a guess, i'd say it was stolen. what do you think? >> especially in a massive operation like this where none of it works unless there is meticulous, you know, control at every single turn of every document. and that's what we call a bureaucracy. and come to find out the problem with bureaucra roc bureaucracy? they never work. and this is especially damning for hillary clinton because hillary clinton's reputation, the argument for her candidacy has always been, well, i can manage these things, i'm all about good government and stuff like that.

we know that she didn't do what she was supposed to do when the red phone rang in the middle of the night in benghazi. she didn't perform under pressure. thousand we find out she can't perform under routine procedures because under the good government bureaucracy of the clintons have sort of sold to us for going on 15 years now, they're not keeping track of anything either. and so why take another chance on that. >> well, she's known this investigation is ongoing and yet she has nothing to say about it at least so far. maybe in the end she'll say what difference does it make. she used that one before. so, listen, finally -- >> she'll use it again. >> why not. what's old is new. incompetence, corruption or bsoe because it's not just 33 files that were physically lost. $2.1 billion. files didn't have

paperwork. how could you do it that? >> it's all of the above. incompetence and corruption. maybe some of it wasn't full-on stolen by somebody or whatever. but what it reveals is an absolute corruption of the system, an absolute corruption of the entire process that is supposedly designed to protect taxpayer money. and it's not. it's broken and therefore it is an absolute corruption because it's not like we can stop paying taxes. we're still paying taxes and it's going out of our wallet and right on you the door into somebody's hands. >> and if we keep growing at the current rate, it will be a trillion here, a trillion there. charlie, thanks very much. beam me up, scotty. how one company is transforming aviation technology and bringing

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>> yes. we have the maneuverability of a porsche and the stability of a cadillac, highly stable aircraft in the sky. >> reporter: right now all of his prototypes, including this original, are unmanned. he is, however, building a two-man version which he says will retail at under the price of an expensive car. what's your vision here? >> my vision is a super highway of saucer aircraft flying around the united states. >> reporter: super highway of flying saucers which he says will be safer and cheaper than anything flying today. in brooksville, florida, douglas kennedy, fox news. >> it sounds orwell an, maybe unprincipled government crushes individuals for a reason or no reason at all. innocent people become the enemy. is it happening in america? fox news goes in-depth in a one

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