do. but it is definitely something that i think needs to be looked at. exactly right, miles, a new zealand air force officer today said that the main focus is now around the area where the pings were being picked up by the australian ship, not the area where the chinese ship picked up the pings. why the focus on the australian ship pings more so than the chinese? well, two things, first of all, the chinese detected those pings in a rather unconventional way with a device not designed for that purpose, designed for shallow water. there is more skepticism. having said that you still want to check it out. the other things being said in the secret world there is a good possibility there might have been radar information that might have helped the australians come up with this location on that arc. and if that was possible, if the defense radars in australia were able to identify a blip that would obviously give them a lot
weather has been quite calm. take a look at the last 48 hours. the bulk of the weather staying north of the search area and farther down to the south. it s really helped these search parties get out there and get into the conditions that sometimes can be rough in this region. looking again now forward in time, you can see any weather systems that are developing staying south of the region. this is the good news. we re not talking about that low visibility. barely some clouds in the area. yes, light showers here and there. they ve had turbulent weather several weeks ago. now things are really calming down. this new search area is farther to the north. conditions are improving. barely some rain and barely wind out there. conditions are great for the next 48 hours. that s key as they try and hear these pings. thanks, indra. we re following the latest breaking developments in the flight for 370 all day long. there s other big news as well. perhaps the most crucial moment yet in the tri
it is day 33 of the search here, past the expected life of the batteries. they say they can last 30 to 35 days. okay, let s grant it. captain matthews of the u.s. navy says he believes the pingers are still alive at this point even though the ship has gone back and can t find the signal it picked up a few days ago. how long can the search realistically go on with the expectation that the batteries will be found and heard? he said 15 days which to me seemed rather excessive, frankly. they have a vehicle on board that very ship, on board the ocean shield. an unmanned vehicle that can go down and start painting the ocean floor with sonar. and i suspect there will be pressure to deploy that sooner. my experience with lithium batteries, they tend to quit rather quickly. what an amazing stroke of luck that we caught the last of the pings, maybe that happened within five days. there is going to be a lot of pressure to deploy that unmanned
feasible that the plane could have landed anywhere on earth? no, if you believe those pinks that is pretty much where it ran out of gas. so if you discard the inmarsat pings, i think we re back to square one. and we moved beyond that point. the ability of the satellite to interrogate the flight. and i can t even speak to the people who bother me that think the boston marathon happened. we can t even address that. but wondering about the diego garcia theory? it takes us back to the grassy knoll. and coming up, the report that russia is preparing for a full-scale invasion, just what exactly is vladimir putin
airplane from the inmarsat pings, plus radar data from various countries that track this airplane momentarily. so they are looking on the right flight path. they are looking exactly where inmarsat, the satellite provider, said that the last known transmission came from this airplane. the last acknowledgment came from this airplane. so it certainly is there s also a sense that there s a little bit more to it to this than they are telling us. for instance, there s a british nuclear submarine out there. we asked about what that is doing and we re told no comment. we can t discuss it. so there s, i think, a bit more intelligence to this man meets the eye. they certainly seem more confident as john was saying. the body language of angus houston was more confident than we ve seen from officials in some time. when you talk about the