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Underestimate the difficulty of the search before us. dom is live in the west coast nows room. >> reporter: yes, harris, the prime minister said if they locate a smaller area where it most likely could be the black boxes, then perhaps six weeks or two months to scour that area. there on the map they have been searching, today saturday. and new maps from the australians showing they will extend the search. the ocean should is dragging the ping detector and it was back on tuesday last time we hear...

Welcome back to the lead. continuing our world lead, missing malaysian flight 370 and signals that may be coming from the black boxes. separate pings were detected by an australian ship and a chinese ship. tonight were learning the pings detected by australians ocean shield were a lower frequency than the standard for black box pingers and the reliability of the information from the chinese ship is in doubt for many reasons. so is hope fading yet again? joining us now from boston, thomas altschu...

Is to find the black box first. >> all right. yes. last row. >> hi. su ling. regarding the ping detector, its detected in the loneliest place on earth. so, what else could it be if it not belongs to the mh? and also, since it is also consistent with the frequency, is there any possibility it could be anything else but the black box? and also secondly, is there a possibility for the plane to have landed on the water in one piece, giving it a few minutes to actually probably deflate the lifeboats,...

Australia has now set up a coordination center to track ships and planes, civil crayon and military, from almost a dozen countries. >> this search and recovery operation is probably the most challenging one i have ever seen. what we really need now is to find debris, wreckage from the aircraft and that will change the whole nature of our search. >> we also learned that flight 370s last words were not what malaysian authorities told us. instead of all right, good night. the new transcript shows s...

Ships and planes are now searching the indian ocean for flight 370. orange objects spotted turns out to be discarded fishing gear. right now u.s. navy ping detector is on an australian army warship. this should be there by mid week. time is running short to find the black box. its battery shelf life expires in the next few days. north and south korea exchanging artillery fire. the north was connecting live military drills when some of its shells landed in the south korean waters. the south retur...

Welcome back from the cnn center in atlanta. new vems developments in the search for flight 370. the objects retrieved from the indian ocean yesterday turned out to be mostly fishing equipment and not any debris from the plane. 11 ships and 10 planes scoured the area today without finding anything connected to the plane. an australian ship carrying a ping detector also set sail to join the search. with us here right now is kit darby, retired airlines pilot, flew for 30 years, president of kit da...

Reporting, we have the transcript and they have not corrected the belief that the final few words were already, good night. today we are told the final words were actually good night malaysian 370. the ship carrying a ping detector departed today en route to the search zone. 3:00 in the morning their time. they are working on borrowed time. the pinger could run out of batteries next week. >> typically the batteries last for 30 days. usually they last longer and thats what we are trying to find. ...

Area? >> this is the best guess based on what boeing has said. theyll before involved to estimate how far it could go and how fast it would be going, and looking at the radar data, the straights of malacca, and after that were totally blind. we can just hope it continued going at that pace. >> thats what theyre banking on. they have no other data to work on. they now how fast it was going because they have a radar and a radar image. so as long as no pilot or anyone else ever changeed the intoed ...

Fresh in everybodys mind in the area, the local people in the area that may use those waters that can help us in the future. >> there is an australian ship that will soon be on the way to the general area where these satellite images are picking up debris. that ping detector, do you think theyll get there in time? >> 30 days is what the law says that the pinger has to continue to work. it could be 33, it could be 35 days so we could get lucky with a little cushion and help us have a bigger windo...