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Do not have any confirmation on that. Weve got a map to show you. About 25 Degrees South latitude and 101 degrees east longitude. This is all according to Chinese State media. We havent independently confirmed this, again, just want to reiterate that. Neither has the joint Agency Coordination center in charge of this search in perth. The pulse signal has a frequency of 37. 5 kilohertz per second which is said to be the standard beacon frequency for the flight data recorders and why its getting attention right now. Heres one more reason why this is incredible. The batteries for those pingers may have only hours of power left before they run out. So with time running out, this may be the best hope of finding flight 370. I want to bring in our panel here. Thank all of you for being with us as we have got this covered fro ....
You can hear the panic in their voices here. And people who survived the sinking say that by that point the ferry was already tipped over so sharply that the life boats had become useless. Just eight minutes later controllers were urging the captain to order everyone off the ship. Have a listen to this report. You can hear the panic, the stress in those voices there. Of course, that order to evacuate the ship didnt apparently happen. And now you have heartbreaking moments captured on camera. Searchers bring bodies of ferry victims back on to shore. Because many of those dead are High School Students, just teenagers the search effort is taking its toll on everyone, even veteran emergency workers. Our kyung lah is live there. We know that, of course, the families suffering the most here. But its incredible to see those grizzled veterans breaking down really the emotion just too much for them. And responded to similar disasters ....
Suffer the consequences. One way or the other. In the year 2014, after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable, it is grotesque. We will take you live to the ukrainian boarder to get a little more context from our correspondent there who has been on the ground. A lot of questions there on that breaking story. Also this. Now to the hunt. Flight 370. Here is what we know right now. Crews are anxiously waiting to find out exactly what this bluefin21 saw. Thousands of feet below the indian ocean. Crews are going through the information, downloading the data and analyzing it onboard the ocean shield after dwrund water drone completed its first full mission. Keep in mind, it spent 16 hours mapping the ocean floor searching for any signs of this airplane p. M. Bit was malaysias transportation minister taking a different tone today saying if no traces of the missing 777 are found p found, officials will have to rethink the whole operation. Ther ....
Tomorrow, as well, in the Boston Marathon. This does it for me. The next hour begins now with jim in new york. You are in the cnn newsroom. Im jim in for don today. A happy easter to you. It is dawn in south korea. Monday morning there where millions of people are desperately clinging to the slim chance that by some miracle someone is still alive in that sunken ferry. Realistic hope, however, is clearly fading. Five agonizing days have passed since the ship tipped over and sank with hundreds of people on board. Most of the passengers teenagers on a high school trip. The new figure today 59 people have now been found by rescue divers, none of them alive. 243 are still inside that ferry. Im about to play for you the frantic audio conversation between the crew of the ship and both Traffic Controllers on shore. This is what was happening when the ferry started listing to th ....
And then there was this. Is. We have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box. That is unwavering confidence despite the fact that the men heading u ining up the search te has been no major head way made in the search. It turns out it likely was not a ping at all. Interviewing people. Some of these people include family members of crew on board the aircraft. But the whole notion that the 227 passengers who were cleared from the investigation by the police chief last week that should suddenly say that they are not clear. They said youre correct. All the passengers have been cleared. So what he is saying now has not had an adequate explain nation yet. Of why he is going against the police chief. Not clear at all. Not clear. If or when the black boxes are secured, who will recover the information from them . The police chief here said today malaysia will lead the investigation. That is an accepted fact ....