underwater pings were a lead that needed to be pursued. that was cnn s renee marsh reporting for us. we want to go to our expert, mike exner who joins us from boulder, colorado. he s a member of this outside group of experts. mike, thank you so much for being with us. i know that you say your 80% to 90% confident the plane is in this particular place in the southern indian ocean. but in laymen s terms, can you explain to us why you are so certain? well, first of all, i wouldn t say that we re certain. i think this is the highest probability location. it has to be somewhere along the arc. it s along this seventh arc. the question is, where along the arc. the primary assumption that
should focus here. this is our recommended search area. no one is claiming that we know it s at this location, but we think it has the highest probability of any area in the southern indian ocean. there have been multiple aerial searches in the indian ocean with no trace of the missing plane, but their new target area was unexplored. they have already searched areas close to the area that we have recommended but not exactly on it. the group says the four underwater signals detected in april unintentionally kept them from looking at other areas they flagged. but the outsiders all agree the underwater pings were a lead that needed to be pursued. and authorities leading the search say they are reanalysis of the data is almost complete
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bids coming in. you would end up with $1.99 billion game for donald sterling in all of this, if indeed the microsoft ceo is buying the clippers. another stunning admission that the country leading the flight for malaysia 370 says it s been looking in the wrong spot. the safety bureau has now advised the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detection disease be considered complete. and in his professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place for mh 370. that. comes on the heels of the u.s. navy bombshell. an official telling cnn the underwater pings thought to be from mh 370 aren t. i d have to say at this point, based on all of the imagery data we collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. rene marsh has been breaking
this story. admitting the plane isn t at the search location. they re essentially confirming what we told you just 24 hours ago. flight 370 is not where they thought it was. they searched a 329-square-foot zone where the four underwater pings were detected, and it simply is not there. a u.s. navy official told cnn the very same thing yesterday. we now know that because they didn t find anything, the search area expands to about 23,000 square miles. that s a lot of ground to cover. a much larger area to focus on. we re talking about hundreds of miles elsewhere along that inmarsat arc. and we do know that that search won t resume until months from now. erin? are they giving up on the pings altogether? well, again, we know that the u.s. navy official said in very plain language yesterday that those signals are most likely not from the black boxes. we should note, though, hours after that interview aired, the navy tried to walk back that comment a little bit, calling it