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What's the latest. we know that they've searched that -- they've narrowed that search area, but it is still slow going as they listen for more sounds, more acoustic events, as they call them, from these black boxes. >> reporter: that's right, christine. a short while ago, i spoke to a spokesperson from the british ministry of defense, who told me that the "hms echo," which is a british vessel, is currently on its way to join the australian vessel, the "ocean shield." she says it's making its way there because the "ocean shield" currently has the most promising leads in this search. she also sa...

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...

Was narrowed, shrinking by some 7,000 square miles. cnn's erin mclaughlin live in perth, australia. and erin, i understand some new resources heading to that now narrowed region. >> reporter: that's right, john, new resources in the form of the "hms echo," the british vessel. i spoke to the spokesperson from the ministry of defense there in the uk this morning. she told me that it is on route to join the australian vessel, the "ocean shield," to offer its support. she said it's been deployed because they have discounted those detections made earlier over the weekend by the chinese vessel. she ...

Midnight for us here. but whether they detected anything else from the time that they last announced it, we don't know. it's quite possible. now you have the pinger locator. you have the sonabuoys in area and also have hms echo. so lots of assets. f they are listening for those pings. will we get good news later on today? i'm going to bet the search crews are hoping so, wolf. >> are you surprised, miles, 35 days in they're still hearing pings? >> you know, aviation is the kind of thing where there's always margin that is added. whatever you build, if the spec is 30 days, the engineers are real...

Stage in this search. as far as we know right now, the "ocean shield" equipped with that american-operated towed pinger locator is still out there scouring the oceans, trying to pick up more pings. and yesterday, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating this multinational effort, saying that the more pings they manage to reacquire, the more information they have to be able to narrow down a search and then deploy that underwater autonomous vehicle. he also said that they wanted to be certain that they had exhausted that effort in terms of making sure that the batteries had completely...