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Authority, even in their announcement today of what the search is that will be taking place on friday australia time, they refer again to this international group based thats refining that inmarsat data. theyre continuing to refine where they believe the plane would have been when it went down. >> kl being kuala lumpur. we know that the australian ship "the ocean shield" and the u.s. navy towed pinger locator, theyre looking for the so-called black boxes. the british ship "echo" is there. does t...

Cnns paula newton joins us from perth, australia with more. hi, paula. >> hey, carol. the "ocean shield" wont be in the search zone for a few more hours. the british royal navy ship "hms echo" was in the northern search zone today and it was so interesting that they actually were looking for what they call sonic transmissions. they heard something. it was a false alarm, but good news at least. the relatives of the missing could use any measure of good news. the malaysian prime minister, the aust...

Their resources into this operation. we talked about the number of shepz, the number of aircraft that are involved and lets not forget this isnt just down in the south in the indian ocean but also up north. ill take you through some of that. right now there are six aircraft and four of those are military, two civilian jets. these are long range jets that can get out to the 2,500 kilometers away from perth, part of the ocean, cover a large expanse of ocean for them. there are two merchant ships d...

Afterno confirmed that the prime minister has spoken to the prime minister of the uk, and "hms echo" is already heading towards the southern indian ocean to support the search effort. he also confirmed that uk will be providing us with a list of possible assets that can be deployed, if needed. he also confirmed -- reaffirmed that in addition to the technical support provided so far, it stands ready to provide further specialist search and investigative assistance once more information about the ...

Week. the batteries in the planes black boxes are fast declining, we do know that because thats how they were designed. if they are not found soon, we may never know what happened to that plane carrying 239 people. the search now entering its fifth week and still not a trace of that jetliner has been found. but teams are not giving up home. roger manard is live from australia with more on this. first of all, bring us up to speed, where are we? >> reporter: the search is now focused to top three ...

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