he said that the atsb is currently analyzing photographs of the object. he described it as a metal sheet with rivets. we're also hearing from an australian defense force source saying it appears as though it's coated in fiberglass. not exactly sure what that means exactly. martin dolan, the head of the atsb, also saying, urging caution, saying that the more they analyze these photographs, the less excited they're getting about this find. we understand from officials that it's currently en route to perth for further analysis. ashleigh. >> erin, is it possible there's been other material that's been found and just not publicized, has anyone talked about that? >> well, this is the first report of an object of interest that has washed ashore that we're aware of that authorities are taking seriously. as a serious lead in this investigation. but there have been plenty of objects of interest found in that search for debris. an ongoing exhaustive search. hours and hours have been spend by plane and ship, scouring the oceans for any signs of mh 370. they have foun

the head of the safety bureau martin dolan telling cnn the atsb is currently analyzing photographs of this object. he described it as a metal sheet with rivets. we're also hearing from a source inside the defense force describing it as having a fiberglass coating, described as a rectangular object but torn and misshapen. dolan adding a note of caution, saying that the more the authorities and the atsb are looking at these images, the less excited they are getting about it. now, we are aware of australian media reports that multiple objects have been found. so far, cnn has been unable to confirm that. we're also trying to get more information about the size of the objects. our sources -- some of our sources saying they've only seen one photograph of this object and, therefore, it's difficult to determine scale. now, there have been plenty of false leads in this search so far. every lead, authorities say, they're taking seriously as important as either to rule in or rule out. it remains unclear at the moment if they're planning to rule this out any time soon. >> malaysian officials also

the chief of the atsb says it is interesting enough to warrant further review and further analysis, but he did say the more they are looking at it, the less interesting it is becoming. now, the current washing ashore of something in that area is not entirely unlikely. experts say it could happen. it's the southernmost point of australia down there in augusta. it's where the indian oceans and southern ocean meet. remember, there's been a lot of inclement weather in the past six weeks, even a cyclone. it wouldn't be unlikely or unheard of it for it to wash ashore, but it is unusual that it's the only piece of potential wreckage anyone's seen so far. if it is confirmed to be part of mh-370, you would imagine they would step up their search of the shoreline of australia to see if anything else may have washed ashore. although, right now, not confirmed to be part of mh-370, they are still searching underwater with bluefin 21. so far, no sign of any wreckage. in perth, australia, katy tur, nbc news. >>> closer to home, the santa clara city council changing the way it allows homes to be turned

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. >> from the australian mayora time safety authority and from atsb, australian transport safety bureaui'd like to update you on the latest developments regarding this search for missing flight mh 370. as are aware there have been no confirmed signal detections since last tuesday night, perth time. today, it's day 38 of the search. a guaranteed shelf life of the batteries on aircraft black boxes is 30 days. despite the lack of further detections, four signals previously acquired taken together constitute the most-promising lead we have in the search and the need to pursue this lead is possible. analysis allowed pro visional definition of a reduced and manageable search area on the ocean floor. the experts have therefore determined that the australian defense vessel ocean shield will cease searching with the pinger locator later today and deploy the underwater vehicle blue fin 21 as soon as possible. the blue fin 21 is equipped with side scan sonar, one deployed will be searching in the advice nitty of the detected signals. each mission conducted bit blue fin 21 will take a minimum of 24

>> well, i think atsb are probably the people -- the best place. let me start, before this aircraft disappeared, everything was turned off. the only thing that was available to the investigators and the searchers was the pings, which were an exchange between the satellite and the aircraft. those pings occurred on an hourly basis. there was no indication of air speed. no indication of altitude. very little other data other than that. now, what has happened since then is the analysts have taken that data. they've developed it. they've taken the -- i suppose the calculations into consideration. they've looked at how the aircraft might have performed, the likely flight path. the speed of which it might have been flown. the altitude at which it might have been flown. and all of that has been used to try and determine where the aircraft might have entered the water. and of course, the other thing that you must weigh into this is how much fuel was aboard the aircraft and so only. to it's very complex and we have had the world's best experts this this area

we have bob armstrong from atsb, the australian transportation safety bureau. i would like to update you on the latest developments rega regarding search for mh 370. as you're aware, there have been no confirmed signal detections since last tuesday night perth time. today is day 38 of the search. the guaranteed shelf life of the batteries on the aircraft black boxes is 30 days. despite the lack of further detections, the four signals previously acquired taken together constitute the most promising lead we have in the search for mh 370. we need to pursue this lead as far as possible. analysis of the four signals has allowed the provisional definition of a reduced and manageable search area on the ocean floor. the experts have therefore determined the ocean shield will cease searching with the toad pinger locator later today. and deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle, blue fin 21 as soon as possible. the blue fin 21 is equipped with side scan sonar. once deployed, it will begin searching the sea floor in the vicinity of the detected signals. each mission condu

but with relationship to this report, this is being put together with the help of the ntsb, the atsbm australia, the aib from united kingdom. i think the french and chinese involved. there's a lot of parties to this preliminary report. you know, it's already being put together by a team of experts. of course i will the prime minister has another team just to overlook what has been done. i think this report will be a really good thing. it's going to clear the air on a lot of fiction which has become fact. with can go back to square one and say now we know what happened with this airplane to these various points. that will be a really welcome thing for the coverage of this disappearance. >> jim tilmon, i wonder when we get this report if it will be like some court documents that are released that there are so many redactions you can't read the report. why wait to release it until next week? >> for the same reason they have done a lot of other things that don't make any sense. the fact is there isn't anything in that report, can't be anything that is that startling. we have been startle

there are some big brains involved in this investigation from the ntsb, from the atsb. they must have a look at this evidence to corroborate it. they must be confident it's at least worth deploying some sort of asset up there. that's the first thing that we must do. this georesonance data must be shared with all of the countries involved in the investigation. the next bit is the 6 1/2 handshakes. we kind of know the jet was working for about 6 1/2 hours. now, does that northern arc, does it relate to the possible endurance the aircraft would have had to have been? i think it comes short a little. the last bit for me is what i always look at, where's the radar data? what did india see? what did bangladesh see? it's close enough to land where radar would have picked this up. i would like to corroborate what we've got, look at the exact location, look at all the evidence that might support sending some assets there. because at the moment, we've got no evidence. >> the investigators said this is based on testable physics in mathemati mathematics. i'd like to see georesonanc

the atsb is assessing and will decide how to proceed. we are hearing from the australian maritime safety authority telling cnn the object is being sent to the joint agency coordination center here in perth for further analysis. we have seen plenty of these kind of leads throughout the course of the search so far. investigators stressing they have been pursuing them vigorously and it's important to rule in these kind of leads or rule them out during the course of the investigation. john? >> it's important to rule it out. given as many leads as we have had over the next six weeks. this is an actual physical object that washed up on shore. they think it's of sufficient interest to investigate and release the information that they are investigating it to the public. it's not something they do with every twist and turn in this investigation. >> caller: well, officials are trying to be as transparent as possible about this search for the sake of the public as well as the victim's families and friends. they are trying to be as transparent and o

armstrong from the atsb. and mike barton from amsa. over on the left, i also have our subject matter expert on underwater salvage and rescue. and that's captain matthews from the u.s. navy. he will be available for one-on-one interviews at the end of the press conference. well, good afternoon. yesterday i outlined a number of leads we were pursuing in relation to the search, the missing malaysian airlines flight mh 370. namely, the electronic pulse signals detected by the chinese ship haixun 01, and an acoustic noise being pursued by the vessel ocean shield in her current location. i stated that the ocean shield would be delayed from going to the approximate area where the haixun 01 had detected the signals while she continued her own investigations. today i can report some very encouraging information which has unfolded over the last 24 hours. the towed pinger locator deployed from the australian defense vessel ocean shield has detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes. two separate signal detections have

father armstrong from the atsb, and mike barton. over on the left we also have our subject matter expert on underwater salvage and rescue. and that's captain matthews from the u.s. navy. he will be available for one-on-one interviews at the end of the press conference. well, good afternoon. yesterday i outlined a number of leads we were pursuing in relation to the search of the missing malaysian airlines flight mh-370. namely, the electronic pulse signals detected by the chinese ship and an acoustic noise being pursued by the australian defense vessel ocean shield in her current location. i stated that the ocean shield would be delayed from going to the approximate area where the haishuan 0-1 detected the signals while she continued her own investigations. today i can report some very encouraging information which has unfolded over the last 24 hours. the towed pinger locator deployed from the australian defense vessel ocean shield has detected signals consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes. two separate signal detecti

so i guess you're looking at australian where the atsb is enormously experienced.ritish where the waaip, the ben french, or, of course, the united states with the ntsb. today are the countries that would would look at initially because they have had -- there are many countries who can do it. the ones who have really pulled together, pulled apart a black box before and extracted data in very exceptional circumstances. it might be, for example, this might be the perfect one for the b.e.a. of france which extracted the data on air france 447. it will be complicated and difficult. >> it's a british -- excuse me, it's a u.s.-made plane. it's a boeing 777, but it was owned by malaysia airlines. so it's a little complicated. what i hear you saying, though, richard, under no circumstances given their lack of experience in dealing with this sophisticated black box like this should malaysia get first crack at it. >> malaysia wouldn't want to, i wouldn't imagine. this isn't something that you tinker about with. you don't have a go at it. the malaysian investigative authority

he says the atsb is in the process of analyzing these photos.ject with rivets. a source inside the australian defense force telling cnn it appears to have a plexiglas coating. dolan says while the item is of sufficient interest, he says the more they look at the photographs, the less excited they're getting. he says the authorities have been given to malaysian authorities for analysis. earlier we heard from the malaysian transportation minister who says he is aware of the reports but has yet to see the photos. he says as of this morning, the tenth dive had been completed with no objects of interest found in that under water search. back to you. >> joining us do break down the latest is mary schiavo and mr. david soucie, cnn safety analysts. let's qualify the reporting, mary. it is frustrating that in this last search area the 20% is going to take so long. as you told me earlier and bears repeating this is the toughest area to search because. >> because it's deeper than the other part they've already searched. in many cases maybe a mile deeper. i

atsb saying the current photographs they have are more than enough for them to be able to make an assessment if it's connected to mh370. >> erin, did this object of interest wash up onshore? if it did, have there been other objects they found onshore that turned out to be nothing rfr it did wash up onshore about 190 miles to the south of perth. if other objects have washed up that were remotely interesting, we haven't been notified. this is the first item of significance that they have thought to call to the media's attention in this search for debris. there have been plenty of items or sightings found by any number of military planes that take up into the skies every day, scouring for any signs of mh370, all those sightings so far having been ruled out. >> erin mclaughlin reporting live in perth. joining me, thomas altshuler the vice president at teledyne marine systems. welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning. let's talk about this possible debris, an object of interest. it washed up onshore. a long piece of metal with rivets. should we be at all optimistic about this? >> i think we need

heard about it, which was 12, 14, 15 hours ago, as soon as we heard, we spoke to the folks at the atsbceived photographs. the photographs were sent across to canberra fairly quickly. they were already raising doubts last night, saying we're interested, but we're skeptical. one of the problems is with the photographs that were sent was there was no scale to them. so they didn't have that dimension. and of course, unfortunately, they didn't have the piece of metal in their hands. i would imagine the experts in canberra would have discounted it straight away, had they had the piece of metal in their hands. >> pamela, you reported that the malaysians now are going to create an investigatory committee to look into this. what's taking so long? >> well, this was an expected step in the process, wolf, similar to what would happen in the u.s. if there was a crash here, a special committee would investigate the cause of the accident. important to sort of specify here, they're not looking into the criminal side of things. the police in malaysia are still taking a lead on that. the fbi in a suppor

i think there needs to be more transparency about the software, about what georesonance is about, atsb were five countries underneat malaysian and this investigation. >> the problem that the australians would have down here with all of this is if this proved to be correct this would throw out all of the smart minds and all of that data and all of that complex research they have been basing their entire search on so far. >> there's a lot of investment that's gone into that theory, inmarsat and the pings we cannot discount that. >> a little bit of though why not if we haven't found that plane yet in six weeks. >> agreed. >>> chris? >> kate, coming up on "new day," something is wrong. that was word from an oklahoma execution chamber as a drug cocktail failed. so what happened? and we're going to test the out rage, is killing only okay if it's done with kindness? >>> plus, l.a. clippers owner donald sterling banned for his racist statements. is that the right call? kevin johnson, former nba star, and sacramento mayor joins us coming up. dear sun, meet your biggest competitor: philips slims

the chief of atsb, which is the australian version of the ntsb, said it is interesting enough to warrant more review, but he did say -- and he cautioned that the more they look at it, the less interesting it is becoming. so far, though, it could be a very big lead, because as you know, no wreckage whatsoever has been found so far. matt? >> katy, before i let you go, the obvious question. what about currents in that area? based on where they're searching for that plane in the middle of the indian ocean, would currents reasonably take a piece of debris to where this was found in australia? >> reporter: experts say yes, that it would. it's the most southern point of western australia. it's right where the indian ocean and the southern ocean meet. remember, there's been a lot of inclement weather in the past six weeks since they believe the plane crashed in the indian ocean. there's been a cyclone as well as other bad weather. experts say that the currents could wash something ashore here. it is unusual, though, that it is the only piece of potential wreckage that is found. but if it is conf