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>> we are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. >> reporter: his tone stronger and more upbeat compared to the careful wording two days ago from the man coordinating the search. >> i think that we're looking in the right area, but i'm not prepared to say, to confirm anything until such time as somebody lays eyes on the wreckage. >> reporter: but with rumors flying, the black boxes were located overnight, angus houston released a statement saying, "there has been no major breakthrough in the search for mh-370." over the past week, ocean ...

Some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world is being used right now in an effort to find malaysia airlines flight 370 which went missing exactly, exactly five weeks ago. cnn's tom foreman is here with a closer look at some of this equipment. what are you seeing there? >> wolf, one of the first things they're trying to do is get all the equipment off the top of water so only the specialized gear is there so nothing is interfering with it. for example, this towed pinger locator, this had been the one thing that's produced real results so far. all four of the pings that count have come ...

Make the beacons, and they verified that it looks like the beacon signal. the one sonabuoy ping that we did pick up appears to have been discarded. i assume they did a signal analysis on it and determined it didn't meet the profile. i'm going to defer to the experts here, they've seen the data. >> who's going to decide the batteries on the black boxes are definitely dead? who's going to decide when those batteries are certainly dead? and that they're going to submerge that bluefin-21 to do a check on the bottom of the ocean there? >> well, i assume they'll zdefe to the folks on the ship. it's ...

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...