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In the not too distant future. >> reporter: houston went on to say that the signal detected was weaker than the detections on saturday. and he said that was most likely because the battery of the black box pinger was likely expiring. has a shelf life of some 30 days. we're now on day 33. so the focus of this mission very much on the australian vessel, the "ocean shield" equipped with the american-operated towed ping locator, which is still out there scouring the waters trying to reacquire those signals. and that's really key to this effort right now. the more detections they have, the more inf...

Re-acquire the signals on two more occasions. late yesterday afternoon, and late last night perth time. the detection yesterday afternoon was held for approximately five minutes and 32 seconds. the detection late last night was held for approximately seven minutes. ocean shield has now detected four transmissions in the same broad area. wyy@ angus houston there. and also new analysis of the first two signals indicate they did come from an electronic device, and are consistent with the ping of a flight data recorder. the location of the pings has officials tightening the focus of the search un...

Kilohertz and that it consistently pulsed at a 1.106 second interval. they therefore assess that the transmission was not of natural origin and was likely sourced from specific electronic equipment. they believe the signals to be consistent with the specifications and description of a flight data recorder. after 11 military aircraft, four civil aircraft, and up to 14 ships will assist in today's search. a modified ap-3 c will coordinate with ocean shield in conducting a sonobuoy search in the same vicinity. today, a weak front is moving in

Left of the aircraft in the not too distant future. >> houston went on to say that these new detections, the signal, was actual lie wely wean the detections made on saturday which he said is significant. most likely because the batteries associated with the black box pinger are expiring. they have a shelf life of some 30 days and we're now on day 33. so this search effort currently focusing on the australian vessel the "ocean shield" that's still out there searching 24/7 with that american-operated towed ping locator trying to detect this signal. if they are successful, they'll get more inform...

Stabbing story awaiting that news conference as we mentioned at the bottom of the hour. let me talk about the big story we have been talking about for weeks. it was called a monumental task. locate the black box pings heard over the past weekend and incredibly they believe they have done just that. officials are saying they are optimistic that they will find the plane's wreckage. not just one. two new signals picked up by the u.s. navy's pinger locater towed behind the ocean shield. that brings the total of four possible black box signals over the past several days. all of them located within ...