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>> well, they're saying this is a very encouraging new lead rosemary. they're now confident that they are, in fact, looking in the correct location. angus houston, the man spearheading this multinational search effort saying these two new detection, the signals are noticeably weaker, were noticeably weaker than the prior detections made on saturday. he said that's most likely because the battery life on the black box pinger has expired or has reached its expiry date where it's set to expire in some 30 days, and we're now on day 32. so he said the priority now is for the australian vessel, the ...

Aviation correspondent rene marsh has the latest. >> the manufacturer of the pinks believe this is it, the sound from the black boxes, australian authorities have gone as far as they can without actually saying they found it it. 34 days since flight 370 went missing and crews now finally believe they are searching the right area. >> reporter: after 67 hours of silence, came five minutes of hope. >> ocean shield has been able to reacquire the signals on two more occasions. >> reporter: the elusive pings, they've been desperately trying to recapture, detected again tuesday, once for five minutes...

>> good wednesday morning, everybody. we will get right to it. more cautious optimism this morning in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. >> underwater signals believed to be from the black boxes have been relocated again. they were first picked up over the weekend, but then lost. >> lana zak with details. good morning, lana. >> reporter: good morning. john and diana. a month after the jumbo jet's mysterious disappearance, this may be the first real find that answers could be forthcoming. after all those hours and days, crews have spent searching and listening for the sound of pings, ...

Up to 11 military aircraft, four civil aircraft and up to 40 ships will assist in today's search. a modified apc-3 will coordinate with ocean shield in conducting a sonar search in the same vicinity. today a weak front is moving in from the southeast, and is expected to bring scattered showers. the planned search area is about 75,000 square kilometers. you may have noticed the size of the search area has significantly reduced over the last couple of days. based on "ocean shield's" detections we are now searching a much more concentrated area based on the drift pred cases made possible by "ocea...

I want to bring in jeffrey thomas. he's an aviation expert and editor in chief of airlinerating.com. he joins us via skype from perth. so nice to see you this morning. do you think investigators are confident they know where that plane is? >> christine, i think they're very confident indeed, although they're tampering that by saying they weed to find some debris before they're absolutely certain. but there are a number of factors here, first of all, the search line that they're examining that the "ocean shield" has been dragged the towed pinger locators which has been loaned to us from the u.s...