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Been very, very little in terms of concrete developments in this search operation. >> so, matthew, thinking of that, have you heard any officials give any sort of timeframe as to when they may deploy some of these underwater drones? >> reporter: they're not giving an absolute timeframe about that. but what they're doing is this. they're saying, look, while there's a chance that they can still detect any electronic signals from the black box -- the beacons on top of the black box flight recorders, the pings, they're going to continue trying to do that. because when they listen to these pings, i...

As i just mentioned, in fact, it's been four days now since they recorded and detected any pings from the emergency beacons on those black box flight recorders. so i think there's a sense in which, you know, hope is diminishi diminishi diminishing somewhat, fredricka. >> what about the planes up in the air? how are they assists in the search? >> reporter: it's a kind of separate search, although there are some planes involved in the acoustic search as well dropping sonar buoys into the water to try to detect pings as well. the majority of the aircraft involved in the multi-national search are ...

7:00 in the east. new this morning, search teams have closed in on flight 370. they say to within just a few miles. those are the words of australia's prime minister telling reporters that they're, quote, very confident those pings picked up over the last several days are from the plane's black box. and we have new information about the final hours of the flight itself. let's begin with mathew chance live from perth. >> chris, thanks very much. the australian prime minister tony abbott briefly raising hopes some progress had been raised of ever the course of the past 24 hours. he was speaking ...

They've limited the search area down to a few kilometers and said he was confident the signals they were detecting were from the black box flight recorders. nobody has gone that farment within a few minutes afterwards, the head of the search operation, angus houston has been saying there's been no actual breakthrough since last time we spoke in the past 24 hours. it was merely the prime minister summarizing his characterization of that on going search, carol. >> matthew chance reporting live from australia. as mathew said, australia's prime minister briefed china's president on the flight for ...

This morning. let's begin with the latest breaking developments in the search for flight 370. this morning, australia's prime minister says he's confident that the signals crews are hearing under water are from the plane's black boxes and that they could be within just a few miles of finding them. also this morning, the search zone has narrowed once again. just 18,000 square miles in a race against time to find the flight recorders before their batteries run out. erin mclaughlin is live in perth for us with the latest on the search. narrowing the search area, and investigators, searchers say t...