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Of the families and friends, the passengers involved, they need to find the physical wreckage. now as for this operation, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating in the building behind me, issuing a statement saying that the search continue in earnest. that the "ocean shield" equipped with the american towed pinger locators scouring the waters, trying to find natumore signals more information. and there will be three plate patterns -- flight patterns dropping buoys into the water to ...

This is still very much an ongoing search. were still, according to houston, at the stage of were trying to detect more black boxapibox pings before they go underwater to at the wrebckage. >> were 35 days of the plane missing. and the families are waiting to hear. even with these pings not being confirmed, theres still some doubt left. you have the "hms echo" heading to the area. we mentioned the u.s. refalling vessel heading there -- refueling vessel heading there, as well. once they do confirm...

154 chinese victims and their families, i would like to save any more detail for the briefing later today. >> reporter: australian authority had long said that they will not say for certain that this is in fact from missing malasian flight 370 until they see actual physical wreckage. in terms of todays search, angus houston whos coordinating the effort delivering -- issuing, rather, a statement today in which he said the "ocean shield" will continue scouring the waters, trying to pick up signals...

Great deal in the arrival of the "hms echo." we were looking at a website called marinetraffic.com. a website this monitors vessels on the water in reel -- in almost real time. the website indicates the "old shield" has actually moved out of the search area and the hms echo" is in the center of the search area. we dont know why. authorities arent saying. the "hms ecoecho" is equipped with highly sensitive detection equipment and is capable of mapping the ocean floor. well bring you any further u...

The fuselage is lying on the sea floor. the black boxes in the tail part, rear of the plane. so they would really have to find out through either photographs, by camera on the blue fin, or putting down a submersible that it can explore the wreckage and look at it and basically take photographs. and i dont think theyre going to announce that they find the black box until theyve done that. were a little bit further than we could do that. what could happen is as you mention in your news, the "echo"...

The hms echo, though, its got a two-mile-wide coverage. its not high resolution like the bluefin submersible, but way broader brush strokes, if you like, and much faster. weve talked before about the silted bottom down there. perhaps meters of silt at the bottom. that would give off this echo from hms echo would give a soft signal back, if you like. now, that means that if there is a plane down there or wreckage down there, it would give off a hard signal. so its obviously out there to sort of h...

Operation which now covers some 58,000 square kilometers. that is about 22,000 square miles. >> total of four suspected segales hasegal segal -- signals have been picked up in line with the estimated flight path. >> right now ships and aircraft are working the area of course looking for evidence of debris. >> all right, lets get the latest now on the search. our correspondent joins us live from perth, australia, aaron, after 3:00 in the afternoon in perth. we havent had any update on search oper...

>> we want to welcome our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. here are the stories we are following for you right now on cnn. in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370, the hms echo is moving to the northern end of the search area supporting australias ocean shield focusing on the area where four suspected pings have been picked up. >> authorities in pennsylvania say 16-year-old alex hribal went on a stabbing rampage at his high school wednesday. they dont know why. police say 20 stu...

The "ocean shield" while it was carrying out this very sensitive audio detecting work. so, its unclear what the "hms echo" will be doing, how close it will be getting to the "ocean shield" when it arrives at its final destination later today, christine. >> and so we know that these ships and planes have really been looking for any signs of debris, and they have been retrieving things from the ocean, from the surface of the ocean. has any of that been tied yet to this flight? >> reporter: well, n...

To say yes we have absolutely found it. off the record, they are absolutely certain. >> mike dean, what does your gut say -- were yesterdays pings the last pings we are going to get? how much could be left in the batteries? >> certainly could be more battery life and we hope they are not the last pings, but again as we continue to track and try to triangulate to a smaller search field, its very encouraging that we are still getting some feedback from the pingers. >> geoffrey, angus houston was a...