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He believes the planes recorders are down there. >> 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. >> abbott was referring to the four pings picked up between thursday and saturday. a fifth was picked up using a sonobuoy. but after analysis, the search coordinator now says it is unlikely to be related to the aircraft black boxes. crews racing against the clock to try to hear more signals before they are cer...

Confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh370. >> here is what else is new this morning, todays search area narrowed to about 18,000 square miles. it looks like the most recent signal heard just yesterday wont be of any help. search officials say its unlikely that that signal picked up by that sonar buoy, its unlikely that signal is related to the airliners so-called black boxes. the other four signals are good. the batteries that send the signals to the search...

Several hundred miles further west. why? because if there was any debris, theres been a series of storms over the last few weeks, and thats the direction any debris would have gone because of those storms. now, the flight data recorders might be on the bottom where that locater is at the moment but the debris could be much further west and thats why we see ships in that area looking for debris and one ship tows the ping locater looking for the all-important black boxes. as i say, it is interesti...

Possible location of an all-important black box from malaysian airlines flight 370. >> theres still a long way to go before unraveling this mystery but officials are sounding optimistic. clayton sandell is in perth, australia with the latest. good morning, clayton. >> reporter: good morning. there is encouraging news from australia. search teams tell us are again hearing signals that may be from malaysia 370. officials leading the search say theyre using a pinger locator that has detected two ne...

Whats your policy? this morning off the coast of australia, search crews are racing to track down the most promising lead yet in the sunny for that missing air liner. the australian navy ship ocean shield has picked up signals from what could be the dying batteries of the flight recorders, the so-called black boxes. brian todd joins us with a closer look at what the pinger locator can and cannot do. >> reporter: the pinger locator is an impressive piece of equipment. this is phoenix internatio...

Went to bed that night she felt loved. >> reporter: a special edition of "newsroom" starts now. good morning. im carol costello. thanks for joining me. breaking overnight, whats being described as the most promising lead yet in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. the australian naval ship "ocean shield" picked up signals from what could be the dieing batteries of the so-called black boxes. the ship is outfitted with high-tech equipment on loan from the u.s. navy and considered extrem...

Either. >> detect it and find it and find a way to bring it up to the surface and then inspect it. brian, thanks very much. lets dig deeper. right now joining us, richard quest and also joining us here, van gurley, along with sonar technology expert arnold carr. lets say that these pings are coming from the so-called black boxes. so walk us through exactly. if the batteries are dead, how long could it take potentially to find them? >> the good news is, wolf, theyve got a much smaller area now....

Location which would seem to suggest, as you yourself have pointed out, i believe, that maybe these were coming one from the flight data recorder, one from the cockpit voice recorder, the two so-called black boxes. is that right? >> yeah, exactly. so that was just one of a number of encouraging signs from -- and this would have been the 5th by now. so the first encouraging sign was the length of the detection that we had and then when we turned around we did hear -- it was essentially the same f...

Have taken before this plane vanished and how the families of those on board are now dealing with this breaking news. good morning, everyone. good to see you. welcome to "early start." im john berman. >> and im christine romans. its monday, april 7th. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. lets begin and welcome all of our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world beginning with this breaking news. up first, the most promising lead yet in the search for flight 370. overnight, a u.s. pinger locator pic...

Boxes. what if planes were equipped with back-up black boxes that automatically ejected in an emergency situation that would be easier to find. one lawmaker is trying to make that a reality. i asked whether he thinks they should be on all commercial planes. >> i believe there should be. theres been a good deal of study, a good deal of discussion how this might be done. the 9/11 commission recommended this. recently ive directed through homeland security subcommittee which at that point i was cha...