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This blue fin, apparently there is one in this arena, this theater. is it time to send it down? i mean, the last ping was four days ago. >> yeah, i think it is. i don't quite understand why it is they're taking so long to put that bluefin in, because at this point, there's no pinging going on, they're backtracking -- i've been tracking where the "ocean shield" has been going on the marine tracker. and you can see that it's just kind of going around in the same areas within 20 miles or so, looking for pings. they're not there anymore. it's been four days, let's move on. >> all righty. mary schi...

Isolated, confined space in the middle of the indian ocean, often staring at nothing, listening to silence. but right now, the sonar technicians aboard the ocean shield may have the most important jobs in this entire search effort. we're hanging on what they're hearing. the hopes of finding the black boxes from malaysia airlines flight 370 rests on a few anonymous technicians. >> day and night, there is no break. they're on all the time. what they do is so important to us. >> we went behind the scenes at phoenix international, the company that made the towed pingping er locator. phoenix has ni...

Has been no major breakthrough in the search for mh-370. over the past week, the ocean shield detected four pings within about 15 miles of each other. excitement over a possible fifth ping vanished overnight. the signal the sonobuoy picked up was not from the plane's black boxes. >> the signal from what we are very confident is the black boxes is starting to fade. >> reporter: it is now 35 days since the plane went missing, five days beyond the required shelf life. >> we call it bonus time. the battery time is starting to degrade. >> reporter: as we prepare to enter week six, no wreckage, no d...

Down to about three miles down. i think we can show you some pictures. quite an extraordinary device. see if we have footage of that. there it is. what that will be able to do is called the blue fin 21, is go all the way down to the ocean bed, which is three miles down. it goes very slowly down there. it can't cover the area in the same way that the ocean shield's pinger detected it was dragging at 4,000 feet can do. so basically it will be a slow process, heavy going, but it has a much better chance of actually finding those black boxes on the ocean bed. back to you. >> dominic thanks very mu...

The deadly crash on the northern california highway now sparking a federal investigation. the ntsb is reviewing whether the stretch of freeway should have had a barrier along the median. ten people were killed after a fedex truck slammed into a bus. the truck crossed into the on coming lane. the investigation could take months. new urgency in the search for flight 370. the ocean shield is sweeping the waters with a pinger locater hoping to pick up the signals from the black boxes before the batteries run out. officials say they have narrowed the search area. today ten airplanes and 14 ships ...