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We could easily build a pinger detector so we would run out and detect pingers. you'd have to download the data but it would be geo referenced so you'd know where the ping came from. these tools you can launch from multiple boats. >> david malco reported that the conditions are murky, the sea is churning and royaling and that it's a mess under there. does that matter? >> it does for visual but for pinger and side scan sonar, it does not matter. you can use these tools in murky water. >> miles, the notion that we are still in this boat, i hate to say it, that we're actually using the same kind ...

Black boxes are rapidly fighting, what we are now doing is trying to get as many detections as we can so that we can locate -- so that we can narrow the search area down to as small an area as possible. >> reporter: so if we take a look at the map, we can see precisely where they were searching today. that is about a thousand miles off the northwest coast of australia there. as i said, no further pings detected so far but they are looking at 15,000 feet below the surface and that is no small feat. they do have -- well they have the pinger detector on the surface. what they do have also a subme...

Urgency now. the batteries on the plane's black boxes due to run out and just days after expressing optimism about the missing jet, australia's prime minister now saying that the search could go on for a long time. dominic dinatale joins us live from l.a. with more. >> reporter: hey there. yes, it's been a process of elimination really in working out what these signals could be. was it a submarine that shouldn't have been in the area? prime minister of australia has been saying that he feels deeply, confident that indeed what the ocean shield has been picking up with the pinger that is being -...

Hello, everyone, great to see you today. >> it is a monday, it is 11:00 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. in the west. those stories and much more right now at this hour. a potential break through in the search for flight 370. authorities have what they're calling their most promising lead yet. this comes 21 days after their plane vanished. >> two separate signals in connection with cockpit and voice recorders have been detective e detected by a u.s. navy pinger detector. the first detection lasted more than two hours, that's significant. a second one lasted about 13 minutes. malaysia's transportati...

The chances of it actually finding the black boxes and pings coming off the black boxes, the odds are stacked against us. not only as it moves slowly but needs proximity to the pinger locater. it doesn't hear it no matter where it is. it has to be within nautical miles to hear it. >> one nautical mile. there's radar that basically tracks objects and works out speed and whether it's going to collide. that's great if looking for ships and land masses. >> is that where the submarine comes in? you have ocean shield up top, pinger detector below it. >> this is a hunter sub many -- submarines. what ...