Christine romans. Im john berman. 5 00 in the east. We do begin with the latest on the flight for 370. And the news that broke overnight that once again, search crews have heard signals, possibly from the jets black boxes. Two noises were detected by the United States equipment on an australian ship. Only for a few minutes this time. The signals were weaker than they had been before. That in itself could be revealing and its being called a positive sign and likely at this point the best chance to find flight 370. Perhaps within a matter of days. Cnns Erin Mclaughlin live with the latest. And it seems again from the body language from the announcement overnight that they seem fairly optimistic that these signals are coming from the black boxes and they are narrowing down that search area. John, this is very encouraging news. Angus hughson is the man responsible for coordinating this search effort. He gave a press conference earlier today. Hear how he characterized these new detections.
i do believe that there is some sort of cover-up by some sort of government agency. whether that s malaysia, the united states, china. i don t know. but it s impossible to me that all those governments radars were so silent and so quiet when a 777 was flying over their air space. there s nearly something we don t know. most the people on board that flight were chinese. of course, they want answers. but they are saying there s been so much false information throughout these 33 days. at this point, they don t know what to believe. pauline shew has been spending the last 33 days with these grieving families in beijing. there was a meeting overnight between a group of americans and some of the families. so who were these americans? why were they there, and what happened? john, these were three american women who all lost loved ones in the past in plane accidents. and for the very first time,