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We could easily build a pinger detector so we would run out and detect pingers. youd have to download the data but it would be geo referenced so youd know where the ping came from. these tools you can launch from multiple boats. >> david malco reported that the conditions are murky, the sea is churning and royaling and that its a mess under there. does that matter? >> it does for visual but for pinger and side scan sonar, it does not matter. you can use these tools in murky water. >> miles, the ...

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...

Urgency now. the batteries on the planes black boxes due to run out and just days after expressing optimism about the missing jet, australias prime minister now saying that the search could go on for a long time. dominic dinatale joins us live from l.a. with more. >> reporter: hey there. yes, its been a process of elimination really in working out what these signals could be. was it a submarine that shouldnt have been in the area? prime minister of australia has been saying that he feels deeply,...

Hello, everyone, great to see you today. >> it is a monday, it is 11:00 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. in the west. those stories and much more right now at this hour. a potential break through in the search for flight 370. authorities have what theyre calling their most promising lead yet. this comes 21 days after their plane vanished. >> two separate signals in connection with cockpit and voice recorders have been detective e detected by a u.s. navy pinger detector. the first detection lasted mor...

The chances of it actually finding the black boxes and pings coming off the black boxes, the odds are stacked against us. not only as it moves slowly but needs proximity to the pinger locater. it doesnt hear it no matter where it is. it has to be within nautical miles to hear it. >> one nautical mile. theres radar that basically tracks objects and works out speed and whether its going to collide. thats great if looking for ships and land masses. >> is that where the submarine comes in? you have ...

Roughly 900 miles off the western as trailian coast. and a submarine has shown up to help the nuclear powered hms "tireless" just turned 30 years old and has its work cut out. tomorrow the australian ship carrying a u.s. pinger detector and submersible search pod should finally be in place after the long three-day sail over treacherous seas. but then there is a whole host of other problems that will hamstring it, as well. you kind of have to have wreckage before you employ those incredible tools...

Innap list. thats going to be the concern. of course, the other side of it, heavy rain pushing through as well all the way through even the weekend. more rain, not a joke. >> we have moved into spring, thats for sure. >> may flowers. isnt there a whole correlation. >> thats science. >> thats science for you. coming up next on "new day," more much more on the search for flight 370. a black box pinger detector is headed out to the search zone as we speak, but time is quickly running out. it coul...

Clues and developments on the search this morning. the investigation into why the plane crashed, how the families are still waiting for answers and how theyre holding up this morning. and we have a live update from the malaysian government. that will begin at any moment. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans. >> and im john berman. about 31 minutes past the hour right now. we will bring you that briefing from malaysia, all new developments, the minute it happens. meanwhile, the sear...

This is fantastic technology. explain why youre reluctant to believe that its a tool thats necessary now. >> well, listen, when youre looking out from an airplane, can you look for miles and miles and miles. when youre looking for something with a sonar gear, can you only detect something thats two miles away. so much you go from being able to look over a huge area to only being able to look at a tiny area very slowly. the pinger detector will be very useful once we have a more precise idea of w...

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...