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It's really a matter of how much of the area do they cover. right now they're searching in the area ya where they think they heard the pings from the black boxes. they have done some analysis. that's about 320 to 500 square miles. that's a good chunk of area given that they have only uncovered about 40 square miles. if they get through the whole area and still have found nothing and that's several weeks, maybe a month, month and a half, then it's time to regroup. >> could be a couple more weeks before they are able to look at the entire area. how big is this? >> what i could see on marine traf...

Withholding some detail about this search ahead of that meeting with the chinese president later today. as for the search itself, the -- angus houston, the ma not responsible for this -- the man responsible for this joint coordination effort, issued a statement today. he's -- in fact, right now they're behind me in the building behind me coordinating all of these efforts. he said that the statement saying that the "ocean shield," the australian vessel, is continuing to comb the water with the american towed pinger locator trying to pick up signals. interestingly enough, according to marinetraf...

Kilometers of that black box. take a listen to what he had to say. >> 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 on mh-370. >> reporter: he also went on to say that he was not going to give further details about the search until his meeting with the chinese president, xi jinping later today. the search continues in earnest. angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating this international effort releasing a statement today in which he said that the "ocean shield," the american vessel, is continui...

Marinetraffic.com, which tracks vessels on the ocean's water, that it actually had moved into the search area. the "hms echo" had moved into the search area around where they think the black box pinger is located, and the "ocean shield" had actually moved out of the area by some kilometers, and that could be significant, given that the british vessel, the "hms echo" is equipped not just with sensitive audio detection equipment, but it's also equipped with equipment capable of mapping the ocean floor. now, we reached out to australian officials for comment on this. they say they are looking int...

154 chinese victims and their families, i would like to save any more detail for the briefing later today. >> reporter: australian authority had long said that they will not say for certain that this is in fact from missing malasian flight 370 until they see actual physical wreckage. in terms of today's search, angus houston who's coordinating the effort delivering -- issuing, rather, a statement today in which he said the "ocean shield" will continue scouring the waters, trying to pick up signals. one of the interesting thing that we noticed, according to the website marinetraffic.com which m...