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A u.s. official tells cnn that a cell phone tower may have actually detected the co-pilot's cell phone around the time of disappearance. the official says there is no indication that the co-pilot was making a call but this could mean -- could mean that the plane was flying low enough to obtain a signal from a cell tower. we'll explore that possibility with pamela brown. at the same time, investigators on australian's "ocean shield" search are waiting to find out if a sample taken from an oil slick downwind of the search area is a match for flight 370. all of this while sonar technology on loan...

Let's bring in michael holmes live in perth, australia, for all the details. good morning, michael. >> reporter: good morning to you, kate, from perth in western australia. yes, that's right. those four pings that we're now pretty certain came from the flight recorders well, they haven't heard anything since last tuesday nearly a week. and they've given up hearing more. they now think that the batteries have gone flat and it is time to move in for a new phase. ray shift in the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 after three straight days, australian officials announced they will be...

The ones that have been flying every day that we've spoken to, maintain a determination, if not an optimism, a determination to carry on that search to the last hour. and that last hour, it would appear, is approaching when it comes to surface debris. but there has been those major weather events out in the area there. as i said, they're looking about 300, 400 miles west of where the ocean shield has put down the bluefin there. because of the ocean movements and also a major storm that went through there, that some experts say could have pushed floating debris to the bottom. they certainly hav...

Have a listen. >> ocean shield detected an oil slick yesterday this evening in her current search area. a sample of about two liters has been collected and it will be a number of days before it can be handed ashore and conclusively tested. i stress the source of the oil is yet to be determined but the oil slick is approximately 5,500 meters downwind and down sea from the vicinity of the de texts picked up by the pinger locator on ocean shield. >> and another headline out of that briefing today. rosemary, the air and surface search for a floating debris will end, said angus houston, in the next...

They have taken a sample to be analyzed. here's what he said. >> "ocean shield" detected an oil slick yesterday evening in our current search area. a sample of about 2 liters has been collected, and it will be a number of days before it can be landed ashore and conclusively tested. i stress, the source of the oil is yet to be determined, but the oil slick is approximately 5,500 meters down wind and down sea from the vicinity of the detections picked up by the towed pinger locator on the "ocean shield." >> reporter: urging caution, too, angus houston there saying we don't know what that is, we'...