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He believes the plane's recorders are down there. >> we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box. >> abbott was referring to the four pings picked up between thursday and saturday. a fifth was picked up using a sonobuoy. but after analysis, the search coordinator now says it is unlikely to be related to the aircraft black boxes. crews racing against the clock to try to hear more signals before they are certain that the batteries powering the black box signals are dead. >> the signal, from which we are c...

Confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh370. >> here is what else is new this morning, today's search area narrowed to about 18,000 square miles. it looks like the most recent signal heard just yesterday won't be of any help. search officials say it's unlikely that that signal picked up by that sonar buoy, it's unlikely that signal is related to the airliner's so-called black boxes. the other four signals are good. the batteries that send the signals to the search crews trying to locate them are now dead or dying. we're now five days past the minimum life s...

Several hundred miles further west. why? because if there was any debris, there's been a series of storms over the last few weeks, and that's the direction any debris would have gone because of those storms. now, the flight data recorders might be on the bottom where that locater is at the moment but the debris could be much further west and that's why we see ships in that area looking for debris and one ship tows the ping locater looking for the all-important black boxes. as i say, it is interesting to know "the hms echo" this british ship maybe heading to that area. might they be going to ma...

Possible location of an all-important black box from malaysian airlines flight 370. >> there's still a long way to go before unraveling this mystery but officials are sounding optimistic. clayton sandell is in perth, australia with the latest. good morning, clayton. >> reporter: good morning. there is encouraging news from australia. search teams tell us are again hearing signals that may be from malaysia 370. officials leading the search say they're using a pinger locator that has detected two new underwater signals they say are consistent with a locator beacon from a voice and data recorder,...

What's your policy? this morning off the coast of australia, search crews are racing to track down the most promising lead yet in the sunny for that missing air liner. the australian navy ship ocean shield has picked up signals from what could be the dying batteries of the flight recorders, the so-called black boxes. brian todd joins us with a closer look at what the pinger locator can and cannot do. >> reporter: the pinger locator is an impressive piece of equipment. this is phoenix international, a company in maryland that manufactured the towed pinger locator as well as the autonomous au ...