They are all boston strong and we salute them. Im anderson cooper. Good night. I hope you were with us during the last hour and you were inspired as watching adrianne hasletdavis story. She is truly boston strong. One thing she wanted to get across to everyone watching is something her grandmother said to her as a kid it is okay to not be okay sometimes. But adrien is doing okay. And she has a long road ahead of her as do many of the survivors but we will root for her along the way. If you are just joining us, we expect a News Conference any moment from Australian Authorities on the search for flight 370. It is 11 00 a. M. In the search area. The newly refined and somewhat
smaller search area. You see it in the red near the top of the screen. The gray is former search areas. The question right now is will it change yet again when Angus Houston, whos coordinating the search effort, steps to the make phone in perth. Will he make bigger news. We will find out shortly and we expect the Pre
only made minimum meanwhile, with low unoyment and growth, the fed staff norees with many business leaders and country may avoid a recession after all. lester. all right, tom, thank you. we ll turn now to the unrelenting heat impacting tens of millions across the country. heat alerts now up from california to maine and threatening americans lives and livelihoods. here s maggie vespa. reporter: tonight, a record-smashing summer of extremes coast to coast as that triple-digit heat wave statisticaling the south for nearly a month spreads into the upper midwest and east coast. i am walking into a sauna. reporter: 125 million americans under heat alerts from phoenix to minneapolis to d.c. where the heat indedex is set t to top ouout around 1 106 degrees. tens of millions also dealing with violent storms. a microburst blowing through brooklyn tuesday clocking winds up to 70 miles an hour. in the roasting
is the information that we heard yesterday. the australian acoustic defense department, the experts, they are the ones that have said it is consistent, stable, it is 1.106 seconds. and i think he s probably going on that sort of evidence from his own military experts in coming up with these with these comments. to be quite so definitive. there s clearly been a much greater level of enthusiasm and optimism. it s interesting to hear you say, sir because quite rightly you remind us that until we have evidence we should not be off to the races. some debris or something that says these are the actual black boxes, correct? but it is the prime minister of australia. australia is in charge of the search now and the investigation is of course malaysia, but he is in charge of the search. the question is how does the search change now, let s say the
distance between those 10 or 15 kilometers. but still, you know, sound is a unique property here in water. and it could easily travel that far. so i agree with the prime minister. we are optimistic. all right, commander, thank you. good luck. we ll talk to you again soon. certainly. and i want to bring in our own richard quest. all right. so we have the breaking news here. the command versaillesing yes, i m confident this is it. we have checked any other sources, not just natural source, but whether it was a box from a commercial ship? no. this is it. yeah. yeah. well we had this from angus houston and the australians. everyone was saying did he get ahead of himself. did he get too far? the americans are now agreeing. the australian string of experts said credible, stable, 1.106, the right frequency. their exact word, it is consistent with a flight data recorder. so are they going to be able to get it out? that is the bottom line. let us not confuse what tony
1.106-second interval. four transmissions in the same broad area. yesterday s signals will assist i, therefore, assess that the in better defining a reduced and transmission was not of natural much more manageable search area origin and was likely sourced on the ocean floor. from specific electronic listening to angus houston there, the head of the equipment. so let s get more from search australian-led search effort for flight 370. headquarters in perth, he said he s optimistic that australia. erin mclachlan is there live. it s just after 3:00 in the the aircraft or what s left of the aircraft will be found in afternoon. we just heard from angus houston the not-too-donistant future. who spoke about four hours ago that s because of the third and fourth ping that s have been now. but significant detail and time for people to absorb and digest picked up apins that have been what exactly it all means. picked up. talk to us about what people are 14 ships searching a 75,000 saying