about a month and the plane disappeared march 8th. today is april 5th. time is of the essence for those searching for malaysian flight 370. chinese news report say a chinese ship picked up a signal in the southern indian ocean. at 37.5 kilohertz. that's the same frequency emitted by the plane's black boxes or flight data recorders. malaysian authorities say they're trying to verify the report. the chinese also say one of their air force planes spotted some white floating objects in the search area. again, we do not know yet if the report of a ping or if these reports of the floating objects are true and if they're related to the missing malaysian 777 jet. military and civilian planes and ships from several nations, including china, australia, britain, and the u.s. are scouring parts of the indian ocean where the plane may have gone down. we're getting word from angus houston, the coordinator of the joint agency coordination