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australian ship detected a second ping today in the indian ocean. the vessel picked up noise consistent with that of a black box and held contact for a full 13 minutes. clearly this is the most promising lead and probably in the search so far, it s the it s probably the best information that we have had. the pings are in a northern part of the search zone with waters up to 15,000 feet deep. remember, black boxes have an average shelf life of 30 days give or take a few and today marks day 31 since the flight vanished. so isolating the source of these pings is quite literally a race against time. to give us the latest on the search effort, we turn to nbc news correspondent ian williams in perth, australia. reporter: it is being described as a most promising lead, the best information in a month of fruitless searching, but the search coordinator is urging caution. a u.s. navy device called a ping locater towed behind an australian ship twice picked up under water sou ....