black boxes. reporter: another day of searching above and below the water for signs of flight 370 is now under way. forget cautious optimism, the australian prime minister, tony abbott, is oozing confidence. we have very much narrowed down the search area and we are very confident that the signals that we are detecting are from the black box on mh-370. 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 we re looking in the right area, but i m not prepared 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 quote, there
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 shield detected four pings within about 15 miles of each other. excitement over a possible fifth ping vanished overnight. the signal a sonabuoy picked up was not from the plane s black boxes. the signal from what we are very confident is the black boxes is starting to fade.
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, quote, there has been no major breakthrough in the search for flight 370. over the past weekend, ocean shield detected four pings within 15 miles of each other. excitement over a possible fifth ping vanished overnight. the signal, a sonobuoy picked up, was not from the black boxes. a signal, from what we are very confident are the black boxes is starting to fade. reporter: it s now 35 days since the plane went missing. five days beyond the battery s required shelf life. we call it bonus time. the battery is going to start to degrade. it sounds like we re in that period right now. reporter: as we prepare to enter into week six, no wreckage, no debris, no tangible
earlier cames it was last saturday. there s also word that some staff members have been under orders to remain sober for a month ahead of her due date. and that those ordered went into effect on june 19th. that s tomorrow, i guess. our resident britt, jonathan hunts here. jonathan, rumors flying but still no action. good luck with keeping the brits soper for sober for a month. either kate and william left kate s mother s home an hour ago, two hours ago, or five days ago. frankly, nobody knows anything for sure right now. except that a fake kate and william turned up at the hospital today and for a moment had the media scurrying to take pictures of them for about 30 seconds and then they realized they weren t real at all. and take another live look at
harbor. they have two young daughters and all the benefits of being superrich. murdoch $11.2 billion paid his last wife $11.7 billion which was billed the most expensive divorce in history. rupp pert murdoch s spokesman said it actually was in excess of that. for what caused the split, of course, there are all kinds of rumors flying, so far, nothing at all, nothing has been confirmed. rupert murdoch s spokesman said this is pretty standard, quote, the relationship between the husband and wife has broken down irretrievably. victor and alison. i have one question, is he going to marry again? maybe. he s 82 years young? he is. he s still got a lot of gas in the tank. really? you sure about that? i don t know about his tank. but i will say after watching