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Australia ship "ocean shield" has detected four pings all within 17 miles of each other. australias prime minister said he is, quote, very confident the pings are from the planes black boxes. i want to bring in the panel as we talk through the developments. ken, i wonder if i can start with you. confidence is not something weve heard a lot in this search because were dealing with so many educated guesses. do you think the prime ministers confidence is well placed? >> i think so. i think clearly ...

Kilometers from land is a massive, massive task. it is likely to continue for a long time to come. >> katie joins me from perth, australia. its just about past 7:00 p.m. right now. what progress was made in the hunt today? >> reporter: not that much progress made in the hunt today. 1,100 to 1500 miles off the coast of perth, and they are narrowing down the search area. no new pings to hear today, and thats not a bad thing. they have 84 world war ii era buoys and a number of eyes on the water loo...

Transmitters are still active. after that, they can put underwater assets in place using side scan sonar and then start to look for the main body of the debris field. its an incremental set of steps being done exactly as it should be. >> talk about why with the narrowing of the field so dramatically now, why is it still so difficult to locate that plane? >> well, theres a lot of small pieces for one. in all likelihood the plane hit the water with a lot of impact force. were in 15,000 feet of wat...

And families after airplane disasters. mary, i want to start with you. i want to start where mathew chance began. the statement from the prime minister this morning is saying were very confident the signals from the black boxes are the missing plane and then he says we are confident we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. thats going further than we can say anyone really has, especially someone of his position to this point. and that seems to really narro...

That. as you say that is a massive, massive area. sorry i was saying square kilometers, actually less in miles, down to 22,000 square miles. but when you look at the pings, what theyre trying to do if you look at a cell phone trial, you triangulate between them. that is why they want to get more pings. theyre out there dragging that ping locater so they can do that. narrowing down that search area. and as renee pointed out in her piece, that is really just the beginning. and it can take a full d...

In to rescue a north carolina man who was kidnapped from his home five days ago. frank, arthur jansen was the target of a plot and was being held inside an atlanta apartment. police have not talked motive, but jansens daughter is a prosecutor in north carolina so there is a possibility of a connection to that. the search is narrowing for malaysia airlines flight 370. an australian airplane picked up a signal in the same area, consistent with a black box. they dropped sound-locating buoys and t...

The search area narrowing yet again. day 34 since the boeing triple 7 vanished with 239 souls on board, yet only the start of day two, in the underwater search in what experts say is most certainly a black box pinger. the officials are certain they will find not only the black box but the plane, they are becoming more real. well explore them tonight. first the very latest from michael holmes at search headquarters in western australia, so what do we know about the latest search efforts under way...

Before. >> it doesnt mean its going to be easy. >> no its not going to be easy. but lets talk about the investigation and the new optimism from malaysia now that the search appears to be narrowing in on the possible location of the plane, nic robertson live in kuala lumpur for us. you know, two new pings, very important. a little weaker signal. not a surprise, given the lifespan of those batteries. and now, just this feeling that they really are narrowing in, that they are going to find this pla...

The batteries certainly gave more than their legal life. supposed to be 30 days and now at day 34. so he believes it is the case of the battery finally losing strength and not a case of them being not on -- near the signal or being too far away from the signal and not picking it up very forcefully. >> mary, do you think they have enough information to put the underwater submersible in now or is it best to continue trying to get additional pings? i wonder this because i started thinking this morn...

To cautiously optimistic. i guess thats what we are now. i dont take it as bad sign, its a normal progression. i think weve gotten used to dealing with things like this. >> i guess so. they have narrowed the search area. the last time you and i spoke, that was probably the most important thing that needed to happen, was that they narrowed this down. its now at some 30,000 square miles, which is about a third of what they were previously searching. but is that enough? i assume the answer is no. >...