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Authority, even in their announcement today of what the search is that will be taking place on friday australia time, they refer again to this international group based that's refining that inmarsat data. they're continuing to refine where they believe the plane would have been when it went down. >> kl being kuala lumpur. we know that the australian ship "the ocean shield" and the u.s. navy towed pinger locator, they're looking for the so-called black boxes. the british ship "echo" is there. does that give you reason to believe they may be on to something? >> well, wolf, not really. what it te...

Cnn's paula newton joins us from perth, australia with more. hi, paula. >> hey, carol. the "ocean shield" won't be in the search zone for a few more hours. the british royal navy ship "hms echo" was in the northern search zone today and it was so interesting that they actually were looking for what they call sonic transmissions. they heard something. it was a false alarm, but good news at least. the relatives of the missing could use any measure of good news. the malaysian prime minister, the australian prime minister were here on this base touring the operations today and both of them couldn'...

Their resources into this operation. we talked about the number of shepz, the number of aircraft that are involved and let's not forget this isn't just down in the south in the indian ocean but also up north. i'll take you through some of that. right now there are six aircraft and four of those are military, two civilian jets. these are long range jets that can get out to the 2,500 kilometers away from perth, part of the ocean, cover a large expanse of ocean for them. there are two merchant ships down there and "hma success" which is at that location. "hms echo" a british ship is in the persia...

Afterno confirmed that the prime minister has spoken to the prime minister of the uk, and "hms echo" is already heading towards the southern indian ocean to support the search effort. he also confirmed that uk will be providing us with a list of possible assets that can be deployed, if needed. he also confirmed -- reaffirmed that in addition to the technical support provided so far, it stands ready to provide further specialist search and investigative assistance once more information about the fate of mh-370 becomes known. i have also been in touch with the french delegation, which is led by ...

Week. the batteries in the plane's black boxes are fast declining, we do know that because that's how they were designed. if they are not found soon, we may never know what happened to that plane carrying 239 people. the search now entering its fifth week and still not a trace of that jetliner has been found. but teams are not giving up home. roger manard is live from australia with more on this. first of all, bring us up to speed, where are we? >> reporter: the search is now focused to top three pulse signals picked up by the chinese and australian ships over the weekend. the british navy shi...