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Black boxes are rapidly fighting, what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can so that we can locate -- so that we can narrow the search area down to as small an area as possible. >> reporter: so if we take a look at the map, we can see precisely where they were searching today. that is about a thousand miles off the northwest coast of australia there. as i said, no further pings detected so far but they are looking at 15,000 feet below the surface and that is no small fea...

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...

Be heard much further away, and thats why some of these pings might be so widespread as they are right now. fredricka? >> all right, thank you so much. tom foreman, appreciate that. its been nearly four days since searchers heard that fourth ping, but officials say they remain optimistic. well have a live report from malaysia straight ahead. ♪

David soucie. welcome back to all of you. as we just saw, there have been -- theres been the deploying of the sonobuoys to listen for the pings. the australian prime minister saying hes confident the four pings that they have already heard are from the planes black boxes. so it has helped to narrow the search area immensely. but we havent heard anything in days now, what, about five days since the last ping? so lets talk about what should we move on. should we give these sonobuoys a little more ...

Went into the hudson river when sully sullenberger brought the us airways flight down, but with the right technique a successful ditching can be accomplished. the boeing 777 is a hardy aircraft and a skilled pilot could pull it off if they flew just the right way either parallel to the swells or on the back side of a swell. so, you know, you cant rule it out, put it that way. >> yeah. so now we understand there has been no sound of the pinging in some four days and of those four pings that was w...

And their sensing techniques underneath the area and also a separate air search area, aircraft flying through the skies monitoring closely the surface of the ocean to see whether they can find debris of the missing airliner. you see that every day, almost. the search area has been getting smaller and smaller, and its important to point out thats not because of any data theyve received, any new data thats been received. its simply because theyve established these four separate acoustic events, fo...

This is "new day saturday." we want to get to the latest on the bus crash in california. and the latest on the woman hurling her shoe at hillary clinton. we will have more coming up. we begin with the desperate search of missing flight 370. four days after the latest ping heard in the ocean. now they are battling the sound of silence this morning. are the batteries on the planes black boxes dead? have they run out? >> prime minister tony abbott says he is confident that the pings are from ...

Searchers detected that fourth ping in -- or at least they think its a ping -- in the southern indian ocean, now the only sound around is the sound of, well, nothing, just silence. >> the big question is, have the batteries on the planes black boxes died already? and is it now time to concentrate on the underwater search? >> tony abbott stressed again today he is confident the signals detected by a pinger locator are from one of the planes black boxes. the pings were detected within 17 miles of ...

Something would confirm its down there. backtracking from wreckage six weeks on isnt going to give us much information. so the real hope lies in these ping data and getting an auv down. it can cover 40 square miles in a day. thats working shallow. and were right on the limit of the depth. shes rated to 4,500 meters. were working at 4.5 kilometers, about 15,000 feet. so everything is right on the limit. it takes time to get the system down there, two or three hours just to get it down to the righ...

From these pingers before they absolutely go dead? >> well, i agree with rob that i think we may be reading a little bit too much into the lack of signals since tuesday. the fact that we had very strong contact on saturday over two hours held, and then reacquired the signal on tuesday i think is the key point. at this point, the batteries are, have either died or are about to die based on how the manufacturer rates their life span. in the next step it will be to start the ocean bottom search, bu...