speaking to the press. making some sort of comment, jim. >> is there any indication that he has something important to announce or is this just a regular update rallying the troops there at the search zone? >> reporter: his comments have not been -- we haven't gotten any notification of what he's going to be talking about. the fact that he hasn't released anything like that shouldn't be read as some important announcement. it's most likely that he's probably just coming here to get an update, to make some sort of comment. he has been making a comment every single day. usually from another city in australia. but he's expected to arrive here perhaps to talk to some of the search teams. >> all right. we'll listen out for updates for what he has to say. we've talked a lot about this u.s. pinger locater that had been flown to australia. it's now been loaded on that ship, the ocean shield. we saw some pictures of it. do you know when that heads to the search zone? i suppose the goal, since they don't have a debris field, is just to head out in the general direction of the search zone at this point because that's all they can do? >> reporter: that's exactly