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could succumb to the lure of easy money and try and cheat his way to success and michael grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. >> but grimm is perhaps best known for some thuggish behavior when he threatened to throw a new york city local television reporter off a capitol hill balcony and "break him in half like a boy," all for asking about the investigation. grimm later apologized. he says though he will not turn his back on his constituents and will campaign now for a third term. his indictment does come after the deadline to remove his name from the ballot. he will face a former democratic city councilman for that seat come november. >> thank you. there is a new effort to find that missing malaysian aler that vanished nearly two months ago. >> it is now 52 days since malaysian airlines flight mh-370 disappeared and i'm here to inform you that the search will
transmissions that they've been picking up are from flight mh-370's black box recorder, no one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us. >> reporter: and he also warned the black boxes' transmissions were now failing because the batteries are running out. the australian authorities say they will continue to use the pinger locater to try to get a good fix until they are sure the batteries on the black boxes have run out, which is likely, of course, to be very soon. then they will send down a sub messable drone to search for wreckage on the sea floor. they're also warning, when they get down there, there is a lot of silt, so it could be a long process trying to find them. back to you, patty ann. >> david piper, live in bangkok, thailand, thank you. the search for clues into the deadly bus crash in northern california. federal investigators now at the scene. the latest on what they're focusing on. plus, president obama nominating his budget director to lead the
presidential electorate, it's going to tend towards the more moderate. so someone like chris christie, like jeb bush might have a better shot than it would seem listening to the speakers on this stage. >> kacie hunt, thank you. now to the latest on the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. time is running out as officials search to find the black box. the batteries are only meant to last 30 days, and we're past that. searchers have not detected any new sounds today. officials are still optimistic that what has been found is related to flight 370. >> while we do have a high degree of confidence that the transmissions that we've been picking up are from flight mh-370's black box recorder, no one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us. >> chris is with a company
search crews still have not been able to locate the plane's black boxes, thought to be sending signals from the bottom of the indian ocean. and time is running out before their batteries expire. >> while we do have a high degree of confidence that the transmissions that we've been picking up are from flight mh-370's black box recorder, no one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us. >> australian prime minister tony abbott saying the hunt for the jet will continue, quote, for a very long time. the search area has narrowed, giving new hope to the mission. and there is new information today about a deadly bus crash in northern california. witnesses say this fedex truck was already on fire before it went across a median, then slammed into a tour bus.
latest. david? >> reporter: hi, gregg. yes, it's five weeks now since the malaysian airlines jet went missing with 239 people on board. and it's now become a race against time to find its black boxes before their batteries expire. ships and planes have today been searching two smaller areas of about 18,000 square miles in the indian ocean west of perth, australia. the search area has narrowed considerably over the past week after signals from the black boxes were detected. but no signals were found today. the last confirmed signals were detected back on tuesday. australian prime minister, tony abbott, warned it wouldn't be easy to recover the black boxes. >> while we do have a high degree of confidence that the transmissions that we've been picking up are from flight mh-370's black box recorder, no one should underestimate the
determination. we haven't found the aircraft yet i stress this. it's very important. ocean shield remains in the area and continues to try to regain contact with the towed pinger locator. to this point it's not been able to reacquire the signals. there are many steps yet before these detections can be positively verified being from missing flight mh 370. firstly we need to fix the position, then, ocean shield can lower the underwater vehicle blue pin 21 into the water and attempt to locate wreckage on the sea floor. another source of evidence such as wreckage would verify this lead. the area in which the signals
>> [ question inaudible ]. >> we're listening to mr. houston haying out information on the latest development in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. he opened a stating two distinct pings were heard, the most audible. the most red kredible information thus far. he cautions they must be very careful with assessment and responsible in reporting adding further confirmation is very much needed. he went on to say, however this, corps yats well with information received from kuala lumpur and malaysia. information without the wreckage, he says we can't say it's definitely here they must be able to get a
the area where the aircraft might have entered the water is reflected by boxes here. do not worry about the other search areas because the aircraft have been looking for reccage on the surface and have been taking account of 30 days of oceanic drift. but, the satellite has given us this area here as the most-likely place where mh 370 entered water. now what is significant about this is that yesterday, or couple days ago, hisuin 01 had its encounter with the electronic pulse in this location here. ocean shield is currently working up in this location there.
and that means finding wreckage. as of now, they still haven't found anything that's anything to do with flight mh flight 370. the prime minister of malaysia was also briefed by those running the search operation here. angus houston, the australian in charge told him that the search was going on, there's no timetable behind it. but he also warned that -- and this is the first hint of perhaps a slight change of strategy, that if they continue to find nothing, then a new approach might be needed. back to you guys. >> nbc's ian williams in perth, thanks so much. >> with us now is dr. allen deale, a former ntsb investigator and the author of "air safety investigators using science to save lives one crash at a time." your book is dedicated to the families of previous plane crash victims and you write, "ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you angry." we've certainly seen anger and confusion among the flight 370
minister of transport, and also with the minister johnson, because all of their agencies are working together to try to get the best possible outcome. we've got the australian maritime authority. we have the various air investigation bureau, as well as naval personnel, air force personnel, and army personnel here in australia. so it's good to be here to salute the professionalism of all the personnel involved, and to honor the work of all the countries involved in this very important search. i'm going to ask each of the other gentlemen here just to say a few words, and then i'll take some questions. if we could, please, confine the questions tod!z to questions about the mh-370 search, because