transmissions that they ve been picking up are from flight mh-370 s black box recorder, no one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us. reporter: and he also warned the black boxes transmissions were now failing because the batteries are running out. the australian authorities say they will continue to use the pinger locater to try to get a good fix until they are sure the batteries on the black boxes have run out, which is likely, of course, to be very soon. then they will send down a sub messable drone to search for wreckage on the sea floor. they re also warning, when they get down there, there is a lot of silt, so it could be a long process trying to find them. back to you, patty ann. david piper, live in bangkok, thailand, thank you. the search for clues into the deadly bus crash in northern california. federal investigators now at the scene. the latest on what they re focusing on. plus, president obama nominating his budget director to lead the
government. thank you so much, cal. the batteries and the black box of missing malaysia airlines fly 370 are slowly dying. will searchers locate the jet in time. and os pistorius contradicting his own testimony but he s tired and he s weary, he said as his lawyer shook his head. have prosecutors caught the blade runner in it a lie. our legal panel weighs in next. and it is david versus gal eye edge debate over cattle in the desert. stick around right here on fox news channel. i love to eat. i love hanging out with my friends.
(agent) i understand. (dad) we ve never sold a house before. (agent) i ll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell, do you think we can swing it? (agent) i have the numbers right here and based on the comps that i ve found, the timing is perfect. .there s a lot of buyers for a house like yours. (dad) that s good to know. (mom) i m so excited. now back to the mystery of missing malaysian airlines flight 370. australian prime minister tony abbott says the hunt for the jet will continue, quote, for a long time. adding, underwater signalses in the indian ocean thought to be the black box recorder are fading rapidly. and the search area, though, has narrowed and that s giving hope to the mission. let s bring in robert mark, a commercial pilot and publisher
presidential electorate, it s going to tend towards the more moderate. so someone like chris christie, like jeb bush might have a better shot than it would seem listening to the speakers on this stage. kacie hunt, thank you. now to the latest on the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. time is running out as officials search to find the black box. the batteries are only meant to last 30 days, and we re past that. searchers have not detected any new sounds today. officials are still optimistic that what has been found is related to flight 370. while we do have a high degree of confidence that the transmissions that we ve been picking up are from flight mh-370 s black box recorder, no one should underestimate the difficulties of the task still ahead of us. chris is with a company
of jetline.com. thank you for being with us. you re welcome. so this australian ship is in the indian ocean, towing a device from the u.s. navy that detects pings from the flight data recorders, and this flight has picked up signals and australia s prime minister says he has a high level of confidence the pings are from the black box. but the batteries are said to last around 30 days. the plane went missing march 8th, that s 35 days ago. there have been no new pings since tuesday, four days ago. how optimistic are you we can find this recorder before those batteries run out? i don t know that we ll find the recorders before the bat trees run out. i mean, the chances of that are drawing slimmer each day. but if we can pin the area down to a fairly small area and what they re trying to do is triangulate the area so they can get a very, very precise location. that may happen or may not. but of course at least they re still going to have the right area. however, these things are in 1