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Though its good and sophisticated, it needs a more refined search zone to lock in. even if you are covering 150 nautical miles per day, you have a search area that is 100 times larger than that. your chances are being close to a plane are slim which is why we continue this process. we have a lot of ears in the water. the sonar equipment listening for these fading pings that have days left on the battery life. >> in perth, australia. up next, realistically, how long can they continue searching at...

They have that this is the right search area. its a certainly a question that continues to nag family members. >> all right. thank you. we should point a out this is all coming adds time runs out on the flight data recorders pinger. lets bring in david, the author of a book called "why planes crash" also a former faa inspector. lets talk about this shift in the search zone again. does it make sense in your estimation to shift the search zone and rule out certain areas given that what we know of ...

Coming from angus houston, that happening sometime on friday. cnn has also learned that "ocean shield," the australian ship equipped with high-tech tools from the u.s. navy will be arriving into the search zone overnight. presumably it will be in place ready to detect the two high-tech tools that can scan the ocean floor. were going to have a lot of technology arriving at the search area on friday. not only "ocean shield" and "echo," but all of these tools in place to help solve the disappearanc...

This new search zone to the north with those high-tech tools from the u.s. navy. so in addition to the ocean shield arriving we also have the british submarine in the area listening. we have the echo listening as well. so all of these are signs, wolf, that this search effort is really ramping up. >> what are you hearing from your sources over there, will? as you know, four, five, maybe six days the batteries will dry up that are operating those pingers, if you will, from the flight data and cock...

Were back live with more on flight 370. what happens when a moment of crisis lasts for 27 years? not one piece of evidence as to the fate of that plane. all investigators need is one break from the search zone. miguel marquez has more. >> reporter: were the malaysians more quick to recognize that something may be wrong here and shared that, would it have helped? >> i got an inkling that it was happening that way when they changed the search area.

Find this plane. >> and he also said this was the most difficult search in human history. he talked about optimism, in the context of human beings working together to search for a plane, but not in the context of finding the plane. >> and the search zone moved again. what does this tell us about the satellite and ping data that theyre using? >> well, its a matter of the assumptions theyre using. adjusting them based on other information theyre getting. we dont know. thats all it tells us at this...

The black box is delayed. paula newton is live in perth with the latest. why are they shifting the search? >> reporter: such a moving target it is, chris. when we asked them a straight answer about whether or not that search zone has been narrowed, theyre refusing to tell us if it has or his hasnt. the other areas, theyre not sighting anything new there. which is why theyre searching the adjoining waters. yesterday, tony abbott hosted the malaysian prime minister. both of them had very sobering ...

Tight-lipped about this news conference that were expecting to happen here. will it be another announcement about a new search zone or will they announce more refined data analysis. we just dont know. but we do know in week four not one piece of this plane has been found. and australian officials warn theres no guarantee it will be found. a new ship searching for new leads. the british ship "hms echo" will do a specific search friday. its unclear what theyre zeroing in on. but what this ship can...

A specific -- a specific search when daylight comes in a few hours. its not clear what theyre zeroing in on right now. the search zone has shifted again. this time a little bit to the north. officials say theyre refining the zone based on continuing analysis of satellite communications and the planes capabilities. just a few hours search crews will get some high-tech help. the australia vessel, ocean shield, is expected to arrive carrying a device that could help find the pingers on the data rec...

Have a small problem with pauline there in beijing, well come back to her in a moment. in the meantime were at the international weathercenter because weve been keeping a very close eye on the weather. like we said, some days its good, some days its bad. right now youre saying its pretty good? >> were in the rare stretch where well have a couple days of generally clear skies. improving some time in the next several hours into tomorrow afternoon. right now the southern tear of the search zone we ...