announcer: this is cnn breaking news. according to state news agency xinhua in china, something has been detected. it is specifically a pulse signal. this was detected by a chinese patrol ship. this could change things, if it turns out to be anything, we need to clarify, we do not know if this is even a flight data recorder from any sort of plane. this is what is very interesting about the information coming in this morning. according to the state news agency xinhua, the chinese patrol ship in the indian ocean, detected a pulse signal of 37.5 kilohertz. we have confirmed from the president of the pinger manufacturer that this is the standard beacon frequency. we do not know if it is from any black box of any sort. that still has to be determined. however, the fact it is the same
beacon? it s a possibility. i don t know who is in the area and who would want to do that in that area. it is a pretty remote area. there is not a lot of shipping in the area. i m not sure who would be doing that. do we still have jim clancy in kuala lumpur? jim, has there been any reaction from malaysian authorities? reporter: no reaction from malaysian authorities, but the australian authorities from the joint confirmation center are not confirming it yet. this is basically a two-line report from the xinhua news agency saying they located it and transmitting at this frequency once per second, which would be correct. at the same time, it doesn t say how long they heard it for or where they heard it or is it still transmitting. there are so many unanswered questions as yet. i want to wait and see if we get confirmation here. one positive note that i think we heard today coming out of malaysians was from the ceo of
have to look at it with caution. this has been reported by xinhua, it has not been confirmed by the australian joint center working on all of this trying to coordinate everything. we have to wait and see what comes out of it. it would indeed be extraordinary if they are able to have located from the pinger from the aircraft itself. hopeful certainly. it s going to raise a lot of people s hopes but i really need to see it confirmed by someone else. i need to see confirmed again by the chinese, in order to determine how much credibility we should put into it. victor? simon box all, we don t know how deep it was when the news is coming out, you had said yes, it makes sense to divert where are they are now to be closer to the
giving a false signal. and it will take it could take some hours, or even a day, for one or two of those ships to get onsite to focus in on what the signal for those joining us around the world, we have jim clancy in kuala lumpur and former inspector general mary schiavo here with us as well and simon boxall, who is an oceanographer. reported by chinese xinhua, a news agency. i want to be clear about what they are reporting here, a pulse detected. a pulse signal in the south indian ocean at 37.5 kilohertz. we learned from our richard quest, that is the frequency in which the pinger, we have one here on the flight data recorder out of a jet, that is the
direction asap. all right. hey, listen, we ve got mary schiavo on the phone right now. mary, again i m sorry, she s live with us, i believe. mary, thank you for being with us so quickly, as we get to this new news that we re getting in. again, i just want to reiterate to the news we got in, chinese patrol ship hasom one, and they have detected a signal, we re just getting word of it. this does not mean what they have found is the black box. we should also say this is according to the chinese news agency xinhua. right. so, mary, what do you make of the news this morning? it s highly significant because it s the right hertz.