it was going to defend against the royal navy but left from the royal navy. it was a stealth ship. but it wrecked in hawaii and the crew mutiny so it was one thing after another. >> john jacob astor was forming the party that was to go by sea did we have the idea of the dif culty he had face? >> i have thought about that a lot. the people in the decision of facing the unknown and the mental stress interests me and could astor under that. he was a fur trader in the hudson valley in new york. he dragged his wagon swamp and forest. so he had some understanding. but now one realized how much terrain there was between here and new york. that was a long walk. in those days, there were tribal territory the whole way. some densely populated. some unpopulated. there were deserts and that was a big issue. in southern idaho there was no food. i think astor knew little about how they would suffer. he learned in the long run. ... >> the spanish or in california. were they aware of what was going on in the northwest? they had a little bit. >> yes, good point. the spanish -- of course of this his

meanwhile the intensity of the hunt continues to increase the british ministry of defence said a royal navy submarine has abided in the southern indian ocean to help with the such the ministry added that the british royal navy source of a ship is also due to join the hunt soon. meanwhile chinese and us military and crops have departed from perth to continue to die he haunts the search area is roughly the size of our island chinese premier league coach adam says despite the great challenges the search efforts of the malaysian plight in cattle beast like them. he said this in a phone conversation with a study of prime minister tony abbott today has vowed to intensify the search and deepen the investigation the malaysian government and malaysia alliance held a closed door briefing whole rest of the passengers aboard the missing plane at a hotel near kuala lumpur today officials from the department of civil aviation police and air force as well as technical experts attended the meeting. chinese families decided by jane also had access to the briefing by tele conference. we'll respond to our car

it was going to defend against the royal navy but left from the royal navy. it was a stealth ship. but it wrecked in hawaii and the crew mutiny so it was one thing after another. >> john jacob astor was forming the party that was to go by sea did we have the idea of the dif culty he had face? >> i have thought about that a lot. the people in the decision of facing the unknown and the mental stress interests me and could astor under that. he was a fur trader in the hudson valley in new york. he dragged his wagon swamp and forest. so he had some understanding. but now one realized how much terrain there was between here and new york. that was a long walk. in those days, there were tribal territory the whole way. some densely populated. some unpopulated. there were deserts and that was a big issue. in southern idaho there was no food. i think astor knew little about how they would suffer. he learned in the long run. ... >> the spanish or in california. were they aware of what was going on in the northwest? they had a little bit. >> yes, good point. the spanish -- of course of this his

the british royal navy has six modest royer's and japan has 26. >> officially japan does not have a navy. what is all of this? the truth is that japan has been stableg a modern and military force in the world. they want to go further to make it stronger and free it from the shackles of the constitution. it is being driven by this. inside japanese waters refusing to stop. china is aggressively securing territorial claims on islands around japan. >> all countries have a right to self-defense and we want to reinterpret the constitution. china is changing the status quo by force. we will not escalate tension. we will be resolute in our response. abe doesn't just want to make japan strong. this is a statement of the int ent. he believes it is time to stop apologizing for the war crimes. >> on the one hand, you can point to an expansionist tendency on the chinese government. is can also say that abe adding fuel to the fire by going back to historical issues. he takes the view that japan did nothing particularly wrong during the second world war. >> it is in japanese schools that mr. abwe is re

the royal navy just withdrew the submarine from the search. does this mean that investigators are giving up entirely? >> no. i think it's a distribution of assets. it indicates to me that they are taking a little bit of time to regroup, make sure they understand where they are with it and then move forward again. i don't see something that it's something that they are giving up. i don't see it as anything giving up at all. >> the tireless submarine is giving up and the "echo" is going back to port to restock and refuel. do you believe that there's a waning sense of urgency in this search? >> yes, i do. there's always a sense of urgency in the beginning of a search, first to look for survivors or try to capture any debris or in this case pinger signals. but once those chances are gone, then there needs to be a tempo shift, if you like, and it's about accuracy rather than speed. whatever is done from now on, we need to make sure that once an area is being searched it can be ruled out of the equation and that's going to be the focus ahead. >> why

a british royal navy ship is now closing in, bringing more sophisticated gear for listening underwater. but a second australian ship carrying this u.s. navy black box locator now won't be coming right away. it's chasing its own lead, a third mysterious sound picked up about 350 miles away. it could be something or nothing. >> we are dealing with very deep water, we are dealing with an environment where sometimes you can get false indications. >> this morning search teams are focusing further south because of new analysis is the data reveals the boeing 777 may have been flying longer than first thought. possibly going down where the chinese picked up the snatch but so far weeks of searching the indian ocean has failed to turn up any new evidence and tracking down these new leads are nor urgent than ever because the pings from the black boxes may be just days from going silent, their batteries running out. they hope to learn more in the next 24 hours. we are told the british ship should be here early monday morning to begin its search. from australia. >>> happening now. thousands of runn

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the royal australian navy and royal navy have today commenced a subsurface search for missions for the black box pinger for malaysians airlines flight mh-370. using the towed pinger locater from the united states navy, on the australian defense vessel ocean shield and a similar capability on hms echo, the two ships will search a single 240 kilometer track converging on each other. of course, if you want to get into more detail about that, i have the commodore to assist me and will take any questions on that subject. the australian frigate has been tasked to assist with the search. it will take approximately four days to reach the search area. and as i mentioned yesterday, the malaysian frigate will arrive in the search area at 1800 tomorrow. as you're aware, the malaysian prime minister visited western australia yesterday. i briefed him in relation to the establishment of the coordination center. the prime minister announced that australia has accepted malaysia's invitation to participate as an acredited representative in the investigation, and we will continue to work closely together

a royal navy nuclear submarine is also combing the area listening to the same tell tale pings. they might get lucky, but it's a long shot. the batteries run out in a few days. they are listening across an area the size of britain. another kit is on standby. this underwater vehicle swimming up and down mapping the sea bed. they won't start using it until they find a piece of the actual plane. so they got the best tools available to find this airliner, but that doesn't mean it will work. they have the same state-of-the-art technology five years ago to find the black boxes from a french airliner that crashed into the atlantic. for a month, they trolled the area listening for signals without realizing they even went over the wreckage, yet they heard nothing. the company that eventually helped find that plane told me why. >> in hindsight after the wreckage was discovered, it was revealed that both pingers had failed and so it's very similar to the situation faced now with malaysian air 370 where you have no information really on where the wreckage could be on the ocean bottom and in

confirmed to the place was dispatched to determine the identity of the on the day croft the british royal navy destroyer hms track and also attract a russian ship as it entered the northern coast of scotland british officials stressed it's not uncommon the ministry bancroft to fly close to other countries as place last year it happened around eight times with them with the increasing reports pertaining to the kremlin over the crisis in ukraine really treat officials are preparing for an increase in the drills usually used to test each of those defenses this new one. when you're trading has long claimed that worse is an extension of creamy actually about as a reaction to the peninsula's decision to break away from ukraine following the country's revolution much photos of the medal commemorating annexation suggests that the move was planned by moscow long in advance. medal given to crime is a self proclaimed prime minister sergei acts in all of mark's canary twenty as the beginning of the operation to bring creamy under russian rule that the internet was before the pro russian and cranny of the

confirmed to the place was dispatched to determine the identity of the umno and the croft the british royal navy destroyer hms track and also attract a russian ship as it entered the northern coast of scotland british officials stressed that milton coleman them in a tree and crossed to fly close to other countries as place last year it happened around eight times with the with the increasing reports pertaining to the kremlin of the crisis in ukraine or treat officials are preparing for an increase in the tree was usually used to test the toughest defenses international news on new and more. russia has expelled a canadian diplomats and their embassy in moscow in the crib institute at noon fully counted the study of expulsion of the russian system to treat us safe russia's ambassador to canada recently hit the kid off to him and cling to the story would be kicked out they didn't explode. oh well guy from the start of new tradition so we will pick up some milk to start. symbols linux is an extension of ukraine's crimean peninsula canadian prime minister stephen harper said most distant that ukraine

will be taking part in today's search the uk is well maybe survey ship hms echo and the australian royal navy ship oceans. you will continue the underwater hot china's aisle seventy six transport aircraft has departed from perth international airport for the target area already the weather forecast for today's search is fail with possible rain in the search area on friday and total fourteen aircraft and nine ships to park in the search tossed in for weeks as malaysia airlines flight to nice three seven the band is the plane's black box and is likely to stop giving signals in just about three days as a result of an a search and rescue ship are two zero one is stepping up its efforts to locate the flight data recorders in the waters west of perth. cctv he knew wat reports from aboard the ship interesting just like i was looking for a nineteen seventies might take ten record in the press box no paintings on the widget so you can pick up any sick notes from the pep talks located can take up sick nose with being a five kilometer radius the searchers note they are working against it. a tight deadli

of the southern area makes doing some isolated showers the british ministry of defence said the royal navy submarine has arrived in the southern indian ocean the ministry added that enable oh four survey ship is also due to join the hunt so malaysian police say the investigation may never determined by the malaysia airlines jetliner disappeared they say it's not certain that planes scouring the indian ocean will find anything either. they say all passengers had been cleared of hijacking sabotage and psychological mental issues investigation is now focused solely on the crew and the two pilots the possibility of a stroke to malfunction has not yet been ruled out either. police are investigating whether the food could have been poisoned. cnn cited a source in malaysia airlines has changed cockpit was now you're saying know how to pull force officer may sit in the cockpit. while. the multi national search for flight in the sea seventy has been on the top of the agenda for us and ac on defense ministers to a meeting in hawaii customer than to say is they are representing malaysia he told cctv

>> reporter: the first ship in the area, hms echo, british royal navy ship. it has sonar on board. it will get out in the next 10 to 12 hours to sweep the zone the chinese ships have already been over. chinese ships will continue to work as well. they've heard it twice in that zo. they want to go over and see if they hear anything else. the ship investigating the acoustics now. if it's discounted and they do not believe that's the location of the black boxes they'll join the echo and chinese ship already on scene. they have the towed ping locater. they'll do a sweep of the same area and see if they can hear it. after that, they crucially have the underwater robot on board, blue fin 21. at depths, 4,500 meters at that range. it's in the range of the blue fin. the chief houston warned us whatever we do will be pain staking and lengthy. they are hoping to identify in the next few days whether or not those are the black boxes. >> thank you paula. we have the meteorologist with us now. he has been looking at the depth of challenges they have with that. also the ping. they tell us it's c

we'll talk more about the british ship, "hms echo" royal navy survey ship supports submarines and amphibiousptions. it's to chart the sea floor and provide realtime information. it's equipped with highly sophisticated sound locating women. it could be the key in determining whether or not the signal is coming from flight 370's black boxes. the search is focused in a part of the ocean where the chinese ship detected pulse signals friday and saturday. that british ship may be the best bet right now to get some real firm answers. the chinese ship detected the pulse signals two days in a row a mile apart from one another. it may be the best lead officials have right now. australian officials have used words like important and encouraging as a lead. they caution it may not find answers. australia ship picked up what they call an acoustic noise. that's 100 ways from the chinese vessel and now the british vessel are. search teams there are trying to figure out what that acoustic event is. we're also learning brand-new details about the potential path of the plane at the very start. just after it dr

. >>> british and australian royal navy have ships searching for wreckage. >>> many people chose to soakp the sun in the golden gate park. take a look, you can see many people chose to picnic and play in the lawn where the plowerses are in full bloom. >>> yeah, you november it's not too cold, not do hot. it's been nice. the kids loved it. >> just how warm did it get kron4. >>> vikki it got up to 61 in san francisco as we were saying not too cold, not too warm for tomorrow things are going to warm up about another 5-10 degrees, it is going to get on the warm side especially when he get into the beginning of next week. live view, the bay bridge, clear skies for tonight, temperatures currently they cooled down, we are in the mid to upper 50s. san jose, same for oakland, brentwood a little warmer at 64. for tomorrow, it's going to be noticeably warmer. look for highs to go up into the 80s in some of the warmest spots. even by noon 70s in land, 60s by the bay and warm things up into the early to mid afternoon with sunny skies and those highs will be about 5-10 degrees warmer than what we had

japan has four times as many major warships on the high seas than the british royal navy at the moment. so japan is a serious military power. and were japan to get into some sort of shooting incident with china, that would raise the danger of dragging the u.s. in. because we -- we're bound by treaty to help defend japan. >> i want to did one more quick question before i go to the audience and it's this. you have compared the south china sea to the caribbean. you have given us a historical analysis that when the united states came to dominate the caribbean, it was springboard for a leading role in the world. if china were to succeed in dominating the south china sea, would china then go on to dominate the world? >> i don't think so. if it could dominate the south china sea, number of other things would be happening as well. they would essentially neutralize taiwan. taiwan is a de facto independent country. those words de facto could change. china would also become a two-ocean navy. over the western pacific and the indian ocean. that would give china tremendous influence in what i call t

a british royal navy ship is now closing in, bringing more sophisticated gear for listening underwatert a second australian ship carrying this u.s. navy black box locater now won't be coming right away. it's chasing its own lead, a third mysterious sound picked up about 350 miles away. it could be something or nothing. >> we're dealing with very deep water. we're dealing with an environment where sometimes you can get false indications. >> reporter: this morning, search teams are focusing further south because a new analysis of satellite data reveals the boeing 777 may have been flying faster than first thought, possibly going down very close to where the chinese picked up that signal. but so far, weeks of searching the indian ocean has failed to turn up any real evidence, and tracking down these new leads is more urgent than ever, because the pings from those black boxes may be just days from going silent. the batteries running out. officials here stress they can not verify what the chinese or australians heard. they hope to learn more in the next 24 hours. we are told that british sh

a royal navy nuclear submarine is combing the area, listening for the same tell-tale pings. now, they might get lucky but it's a long shot. the pinger batteries run out in a few days. they will be listening across an area the size of britain. there's another on stand by as well. this underwater vehicle swims up and down mapping the sea bed. they won't start using it until they find a piece of the actual plane. so they have the best tools available. but that doesn't mean it will work. they had the same state-of-the-art technology as five years ago. to find the black boxes from a french airliner. for months they trolled the area listening for signals. they went over the wreckage yet heard nothing. the company that helped find that plane told me why. >> afterwards it was discovered both pingers had failed. so it's very similar to malaysian air 370 where you have no information really on where the wreckage could be on the ocean bottom. it is the same situation now where malaysian 370 where you have no information where the the wreckage could be on the ocean body and malaysian ai

the echo, british royal navy ship that does surveying. it was in the water trying to listen for sonic transmissions. they had a false alarm which was obably exciting for them on the ship. they were able to discount it. having said that, it's still good news they're out there and able to use that piece of equipment. >> they are able to use all the equipment they can. we're getting language from australian talking about the daunting search, saying they're going to keep up this search until hell freezes over. is that really practical? can they fly 10 to 12 planes a day and send 10 to 12 ships a day? is that practical? >> reporter: they're trying to lower expectations. the intensity of this kind of search. you've got a submarine on the way. that's not going to happen at a sustained level. they're giving it few weeks maybe months. after that we'll continue for it to be a search. the dimensions we can't know. in that language, saying it's the biggest mystery in aviation history, that it is an unprecedented kind of search. those things and telli

. >> reporter: but the british royal navy has sent a manned sub to join in the as i understand oceanrch. the u.k. military announcing th that has advanced under water search capabilities. >> i was very surprised to hear the british announce they were bringing a sub into that region. and in the case of air france 447, they brought a sub in there, as well. >> the u.s. military has a proud history of using the sub for other causes. for example, when the titanic was found, a navy research vessel was used for the search. regarding this search, we asked the pentagon if they would confirm what was sent to the site. a navy official responding in part, the navy currently has two p-8 poseidon craft searching the area west of perth. in addition, the navy is providing a bluefin side scan locater, but besides that, they were very tight-lipped. no confirmation, no denials. >> fascinating technology. >>> up next, the prosecution tearing into oscar pistorius for the third straight day, grilling him on the shots he fired at the woman he says he loved. >> many times, i am haunted by what she probably

cnn has learned the british royal navy ship will conduct a specific search today.s running out on the black box pinger batteries, expected to die in the next few days, if very haven't already. but today a big operational news conference is expected but it's unclear how significant it will be. the australian ship "ocean shield" with a pinger locator on board will be inside the new specific search area. in the meantime, the prime ministers of malaysia and australia thank troops from eight station who is have hunted relentlessly for more than two weeks. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. >> reporter: but what neither leader could really give is a direction of the location of the missing plane. >> we cannot be certain of the success in the search for flight mh-370, but we can be certain that we will not rest. >> the search area is vast and the conditions are not easy. but a new refined area of search has given us hope. >> reporter: officials have arrived here at the base in australia as the family members continue to blast it is court for it is poor handling of the

by 2022 with hundreds of millions of pounds of planned investment as it becomes the home to all royal navyummaries. -- submarines. >> isn't the truth of the matter that if there is a nuclear-free scotland, the technical consequences will mean the end of the british nuclear deterrent at a time of great economic and geopolitical uncertainty? does the government have a plan b? >> my lord, we do not want scotland to leave the united kingdom. we have achieved so much together and are very proud of the contributions scotland makes to the united kingdom's defense. >> would the minister accept, whereas he and i might disagree with regards to the outcome of the referendum and even with regards to nuclear weapons, does he not realize that the attitude he has shown on behalf of the government could well go down as arrogance by the government towards scotland, and does he not feel also that the rest of the united kingdom are entitled to have an answer to this question because it is a matter that is relevant to us all? >> my lord, absolutely. i wasn't being arrogant. i started off my response by saying

britain ramping up the search efforts sending a royal navy ship to the area with a nuclear sub not farehind. captain chuck nash is a retired navy captain and fox news military analyst. a lot of information going on there. chuck, what do you make of the fact that there's this report now out of london today that another malaysia airlines' black box information -- that somehow it was recorded over and so there's a huge mistake in a 2012 incident? >> yeah, gretchen, that sounds to me like procedural error. the cockpit voice recorder is what's termed an event recorder, meaning it's to capture -- that's why it only runs for two hours. it captures an event which caused a problem and either the aircraft landed safely or it crashed and it helps investigators figure out what caused the event. now, the normal procedure is if something goes wrong, you follow your checklist and you land the aircraft and then as soon as everything is done, you pull the circuit breaker to shut off that recording so it doesn't record over the event data. and evidently what happened was the air crew in the malaysia 747

the area where the chinese vessel assisted by hms echo, which is an oceanographic vessel from the royal navy. i believe they haven't made any further detections. in terms of the analysis of the signals that it picked up, i'll come back to you on that. i'm not sure where we are at with that. i haven't had any advice that the analysis is complete at this stage. >> when you began this search and looking at the odds, the size of the ocean, the size of the search area, what do you think the chances are that you would make an announcement like this today? >> well, i would say very quickly caution again what we are picking up is a great lead. we have to caution before we say this is the final resting place. there's still a ways to go. if you asked me when i arrived last sunday night, i would have been probably more pessimistic than i am now. i'm now optimistic we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft in the not too distant future, but we haven't found it yet because this is a very challenging business. we're relying on transmissions that have come and gone. i just like to have tha

as such, the royal british navy vessel is making its way to the area where the chinese industrial vesselnitially detected the signals from. echo is equipped with more sophisticated technology, but nonetheless, their work is cut out for them because the waters where the signals were detected from can go as deep as 5000 meters. it is still a challenge nonetheless. >> we will leave it there. thank you very much indeed. germany is renowned for its manufacturing prowess. our europe editor, david tweed, is getting a first look at technology trends. >> he joins us from the world's largest industrial fair. take it away. it is a massive fare. more than one million square meters of exhibition space here. ,here i am standing right now angela merkel is due here in just a few minutes. there is a jostle of cameramen and reporters here. the theme of the event is industrialization. it is automation. she is going to be looking at some of the latest automation processes on offer from germany and will be exported all around the world. last night, she opened the event with the dutch prime minister. she says

the royal british navy is sending a ship to the area. can you tell us more about that? what is the timeframe? announced on sunday in malaysia and it was two days crew wouldhat the arrive in the waters where the ings were. rememberss, we have to that this is very volatile and it could get up to 5000 miles -- the search effort will be a significant challenge. what will happen next? we will get an update shortly and a few more details on the latest developments for the search. of the nextnse 24-48 hours and what it may bring. once we expect a briefing from the malaysian transportation industry in the next 20 minutes -- waitingwinning for confirmation. it is a significant lead and it of finding the plane somewhat intact. research has is gone past the 30 day mark that was initially have notby experts to happened at all because the battery life in the boxes should have only lasted 30 days. with all of that, time is of the essence. still be enough power committing from the black box to facilitate the extended search. they say it is an important and encouraging lead and that ex

the royal navy today says the hms tireless, the only submarine in the search, is done.s no longer any prospect of detecting black box pings. and now one of the surface ships, the hms echo returning to port to refuel, leaving it out of the loop for now. and as for that underwater search, we expect crews to shift to the north from where they're searching right now very soon. possibly this weekend. wolf? >> all right. pamela, stand by. >>> i want to two to the base of the operations for the search. cnn's miguel marquez joining us once again. liveaustralia. what are you learning there, miguel? >> reporter: look, we know they're 95% through with the initial search area where the second ping was picked up and they're now searching adjacent areas, presumably searching areas north of that second ping area that would take them in the direction of ping one. this has been the issue for them all along, exactly where was that ping located? they were able to get one sort of trajectory of it but weren't able to hone in on it specifically so now they're going to their next best guess w

the british royal navy ship "hms echo" was in the northern search zone today and it was so interesting that they actually were looking for what they call sonic transmissions. they heard something. it was a false alarm, but good news at least. the relatives of the missing could use any measure of good news. the malaysian prime minister, the australian prime minister were here on this base touring the operations today and both of them couldn't have been more blunt about what they are up against. calling this the biggest mystery in aviation history -- >> good morning. prime minister of malaysia. >> malaysian prime minister toured search operations at australia's pierce air force base thursday. this as the search zone moved again. this time slightly north. >> the new refined area of search has given us new hope. and i believe the courage of the crew is more than equal to the task. >> reporter: today both leaders blunt about the difficulty of the investigation saying they have no guarantees they'll ever find the missing plane. >> it is a very difficult search. the most difficult in human hi

. >> tom, we know the "hms echo," the british royal navy vessel should be there in about six hours., we were watching how the chinese were trying to pick up these signals. they were doing it with that hydrophone. what is had this ship going to be able to lend that will help of give us more of a definitive answer? >> obviously it would have much more sophisticated equipment than a bunch of guys on a small boat on the surface dropping -- trying to drop something into the water to listen. the listening devices on that ship will go deeper and therefore won't be picking up extraneous noises from the ship itself or other ships in the area. so hopefully --fy could add one more point earlier about the radar. the asian airports, jakarta, singapore, bangkok, kuala lumpur, are very busy all night long because flights take off from there, not just red eyes but flights take off at that time of day to land during the middle of the day in europe and other destinations. so flying that path around indonesia is also flying around busy airspace over jakarta. >> miles, let me go to you. i have a questi

navy. they're flying f-18 super hornets known as the royal maces, attached to the "uss george washington" and this thing is part of shoot them if you got them. a trailer for the video coming out in may. everything from the deck of this air carrier to the whole dance that deck hands do with all the hand signs i wish i knew what they were saying when they look so cool in their visors and everything, getting the planes ready to go down the catapult. >> crazy that many planes are on one vessel and all on there going to take off and probably come back there too. >> the kind of stuff that made me think when i was a kid i would be some sort of naval aviator. >> and here you are. >> here i am. >> watching videos about it. the air boss calling it in. ♪ now it's not just flying around and looking cool. see them dropping ordinancesn the islands in the middle of the water. look how f and lowng across. look at that, flying over the dams, through the canyons. one of the best videos of this kind of thing i've ever seen. >> oh. >> two pretty awesome animal encounters the first in alaska. this guy ben, he is

aviation analyst, former pilot with british royal air force, aviation analyst mary schiavo, former inspector general, and former navyubmarine officer david jordan, he is co-founder and president of the deep ocean exploration company nautikos. >> can you imagine this search comes up empty and years later we find out what happened? >> we can. if we look back to air force 447, it took two years to find the black boxes. we're in day 45 as you pointed out. i think our expectations should be set for the long haul. if we look at the blue finer it's on its eighth mission. this is a critical phase, but i think there have been a number of critical phases given the lack of evidence we've had. there's been updates that pulled us into the location. and then there's be the discovery of the pings and then the fight against the time line of the batteries going dead. i think that was a critical part of the investigation as well. so yes, this is another critical part of the investigation. and there will be other critical parts of the investigation going forward. but i think the language that the deputy used is not helpful in terms of

royal baby. >>> good monday morning. we do begin with that breaking news overnight. newly detected signals being called the best information yet in a month-long hunt for flight 370. >> a u.s. navy pinger locator picked up signals for the first time in the search that are consistent with transmissions from black box recorders. abc's tahman bradley has the latest in the mystery of flight 370. >> reporter: they are the most promising clues so far. underwater sounds that could be pings from flight 370's black boxes. deep in the indian ocean, a high-tech australian ship picked up two signals. >> it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh370. in very deep oceanic water, nothing happens fast. >> reporter: meanwhile, about 350 miles away from the sounds detected by the australian ship, a chinese naval vessel picked up sounds using a handheld device like this, but experts say it's unlikely the equipment would be able to hear the black box beacons in such deep water. nevertheless, a british navy ship with sophisticated detection devices was dispatched to investigate. >> this is a very sophisticated s

navy ship or coast guard cutter. in fact, six months last year we had their royal netherlands to my ticket was other coast guard buoy tender, but you could put the helicopter on it and it did great work for us so we are looking now at printing, if you will, a merchant ship that would be able to take -- would be able to land, take off, you know, a coast guard or navy or marine corps, for that matter, with a coast guardsman on board a helicopter and also turning at merchant ship into a mother ship so that these other smaller countries that really do the yeoman work including places like nicaragua can go to see and have a mother ship or arrangements of the in good fuel, food, and help us in this fight. >> i will take another 30 seconds, if i'm right. it is clear we are in a tight budget situation and need to be creative. as you were talking, general kelly, the fleas that we have, is there any potential that we could use one or another of those ships with the modification? i like the idea of a mother ship. it will have to be very creative can we figure out a way of doing this with different kinds of assets? >> i think g

navy ship or coast guard cutter. six months last year, we have the royal netherlands at a coast guard buoy tender but you could put aelicopter on and it did great work for us in the interdiction mode. at renting,ng now if you will, a merchant ship that would be able to take -- to be able to land and take off a coast guard or maybe or marine corps with a coast guardsmen on board, helicopter. also turning that merchant ship into a motherships of these other smaller countries that do the yeoman work for us like nicaragua, can have a mothership arrangement so they can get fuel and food and help us in this fight. clear that we are in a tight budget situation which is likely to continue for the next 5-10 years. we need to be creative. , i waswere talking thinking maritime reserve and the fleets we have. is there any potential we can use of those ships with any modifications? we will have to be very creative. admiral papp, we are going to be short of cutters for the next five years. can we figure out a way of doing this with different kinds of assets? >> i think general kelly is right. we will take whatever we can get. at