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Briefing between now and my meeting with president xi later today and as a sign of respect to china and its people and in particular the 154 chinese victims and their families, i would like to save any more detail for the briefing with president xi later today. i want to say how honored i am -- we're now getting to the stage where the signal from what we are very confident is the black boxes is starting to fade. and we are hoping to get as much information as we can before the signal finally expires. >> the wait of the search of the missing malaysian airliner is resting on the shoulders of the...

A visual identification of actual wreckage. he said that he was going to update the chinese president later today with all the latest developments, as well. now in terms of the search, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating the effort which is based out of the building just behind me, issuing a statement today saying that they are still looking for more pings from the black box flight recorder. the "ocean shield," the australian vehicle equipped with american towed pinger locator scouring the waters, trying to detect further signals. the statement also said that they are continuin...

Ping is likely to be ruled out, searchers are still encouraged by the fact that they've picked up four confirmed signals. that they do believe may be from the so-called black box on flight 370. >> but the point we keep coming to and that we have to stress is finding them and retrieving them are two very different things. >> yeah. >> george howell has more. >> reporter: once you've found a need in a haystack, how do you extract it? that's what investigators are up against in the search for flight 370 as they try to hone in on the black boxes. >> authorities and search operators actually found t...

Ever trying to narrow down that search area as much as they can. try to pinpoint where this wreckage might be. you've got the ocean shield out there still towing the ping locator, trying to get one more ping or two more pings so they can further triangulate and narrow down the search area any further. the batteries, of course, well, they were designed to last 30 days. it's day 36 now. so hopes of finding, they'll get much more in the way of pings. then, of course, wuoncethy star to search down there with that submersible, the bluefin, that's going to be a long and tedious process. it takes pre...

Tom really pinpointed what's happening in this region as we narrow down the search zone. the temperature in perth, 88 degre degrees fahrenheit, but the perspective as far as the search zone, the old search areas, remember, that wthat was equivalent to 2/3 of the united states. now it's equivalent to something the size of west virginia. you see the areas, we have a sonobuoy occurring in this region and also in the western search zone. but the perspective as the orion cruises the above the water, the ocean shield, the ping detection happening right there at the surface as well. and we have the s...