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Absolutely certain that the battery has completely run out. as you mentioned on tuesday, the signals they detected, noticeably weaker than the signals detected on saturday. now, it's also interesting to note that one of our producers taking a look at at marine traffic monitoring website noticed that the british vessel, the hms echo was moving in the direction of the ocean shield. we reached out to authorities here in perth for more information on that. we have been unable to confirm officially those movements so far. but it's interesting because that british vessel is equipped with mapping tec...

370. there's a usual process we have been used to in the past of doing that. usually it involves identifying surface debris and getting down on the ocean bed. >> how confident are you that this is 370? >> i still think that we have a few facts that we need to get our heads around. but in the absence of anything else, i'm confident the data and what ocean shield has picked up so far is going to lead us to the location. >> thank you for that. david, authorities have analyzed the signals from saturday and concluded they need more from electronic equipment. so, let's take a look at this tweet. it ...

Black boxes may be. are they locloser? >> they are closer. they had 3 million square miles and now down to 360 square miles? there is that arc that came from the satellites. if we zoom in on that, i can show you the actual path that the ocean shield followed when it picked up the second set of pings there. you can see where all four of the pain pings are. this does help because what they have got here is the rudements of this system where they basically put a grid on to the ocean. they go back and forth back and forth one direction getting as many pings as they can. and then they go a perpendi...

Haven't been some changes made. >> reporter: the search area surrounding the ocean shield continues to intensify. the british ship, hms echo, has pulled out of its position to the southwest and is now focusing where the pings have been detected. but crews continue to listen for even more pings to shrink the search zone. a smaller zone is necessary. the underwater vehicle can only search 40 square miles a day. that means the roughly 500-square-mile area where the pings were detected over a span of three days would take nearly two weeks for bluefin to search. and today, u.s. navy supply ship joi...

Explanation of what happened after the boeing 777 turned west and crossed over the malaysian peninsula. malaysian sources tell cnn the plane disappeared from military radar for about 120 nautical miles, indicating that it might have dipped to an altitude between 4,000 and 5,000 feet. and wolf, a dozen planes and a dozen ships will again be scouring the ocean. the "ocean shield," the vessel that has been towing the ping locator has been joined by a british naval ship in the area where the pings were heard. it's called the "hms echo" and is trying to find signs of wreckage below. there are other...