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Whips the top off the water and everything is white. >> reporter: now, of course, for this equipment to work, you need to have a smaller search area than what we have right now. right now, the ships that are out there are searching an area the size of poland, but the underwater, giant underwater microphone, that pinger locator can only hear a signal about a mile radius around it. so, its really not going to do much good unless we get a better idea of where the wreckage might be, christine. >> wi...

>> and i know we are in what has become the rhythm of the last, now heading into the fourth week, at 5:30, a little less than an hour, well expect to hear the malaysian government give another press briefing. i know some of the families went to kuala lumpur over the weekend to demand an apology from the government. how effective has that been? >> reporter: yeah, they did. i mean, they are so fed up with the information they were getting here that they decided to go to kuala lumpur. and originall...

Now with 30 people still missing or unaccounted for. this weekend, brenda neil got the news she hoped wouldnt come about her missing husband. >> they said they found him. they recovered his body yesterday and theyve identified him. so, of course, we melted. i dropped the phone and i screamed a little bit and that. but you know, somewhere inside, we knew it was going to be -- it was a very likely thing, but we had been holding on to not feeling that hes gone. >> officials say search crews still h...

Harder to find. the planes black box is supposed to ping for a month, so there are just days left now. this plane went missing on march 8th. ten aircraft, ten ships are going to scour the search zone in the indian ocean again today west of australia looking for any sign of the flight. australian officials now say orange objects spotted sunday thought to be a good lead here. those orange objects, theyre not from the plane. theyre fishing gear. fishing junk in this vast area of the sea that is ful...

Four orange objects spotted sunday, thought to be a compelling lead. those four objects are not from the plane. they are fishing junk. this morning an australian vessel, the "ocean shield," will make its way to the search area, carrying a high-tech u.s. navy pinger detector. it can scan under water for the planes data boxes. cnns paula newton joins us now, live in perth, australia. certainly, those four pieces, the pieces of orange debris, thought to be a good lead, now an empty lead. searchers ...

The news she hoped wouldnt come about her missing husband. >> and they said they found out, they recovered his body yesterday and theyve identified him. so, of course, we melted. i dropped the phone and i screamed a little bit. and that. but you know, somewhere inside we knew it was going to be -- it was very likely thing, but we had been holding on to not feeling that hes gone. >> officials say search crews still havent given up hope theyll find survivors in this massive mud and debris. well,...

>> reporter: well, basically, he said that australias coordinating this effort, and that if any country can help find the debris, this plane, then australia is the one. take a listen to what he said. >> everyone wants to get to the bottom of this mystery. everyone is united in their common grief, in their common anxiety to resolve this. i dont think weve got a whole lot of competing national pride at stake here. i think weve got at stake here a whole lot of people who just want to solve the prob...

>> reporter: well, the latest that we just learned within the past 30 minutes, john, is that the departure has now been pushed back to 7:30 local time. so, weve seen the departure of time pushed back a couple of times throughout the day. it was 6:00, now 7:30. we know theres a 30-member crew on board. theyre trying to make sure all the equipment, all the high-tech tools are ready to go. in addition to the pinger and the underwater drone that can detect debris, there are also three highly trained...

Search and recovery goes. every day you just have to keep at it, because you never know when youre going to be able to sight that one piece of debris that helps you find out where the crash might have been located. so, its imperative that they get out there, because that window is closing, john. >> atika shubert for us in perth, where you could hear the planes taking off behind her. good to see you. meantime, were learning more about the malaysian government reaching out to the cia and its cou...

Big. is it feasible in much calmer seas, is it feasible to find these data recorders in such a big zone? they need to narrow that zone, dont they? >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, at the surface, you can search quite a large area, but as soon as you go down into the ocean, you really can only use sonar, which is not a very effective way of searching. so, the smaller we can make this search area, the more dedicated and the more focused we can search, the better our chances of actually finding s...