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The Boeing-made vessel will now undergoing trials that will inform future robo subs.

The single bluefin-21 sonar scanner has now covered about 95% of the area the investigators have called the most likely possible resting place for the boeing triple 7. when it is done were just learning where the next focus position may be. remember, bluefins have been on more than a dozen missions. it has yet to find anything. we have yet to see anything, not one single image from the robot sub. and flight 370 took off with 390 people on board. several satellite connections and a handful of pos...

The bluefin do it? on day one the robot sub scares itself going too deep looking for flight 370. so now as crews get ready to relaunch it, is the technology up to the job? and on inside politics well look at the politics of edward snowden. some in washington have called him a traitor but now the newspapers have published his leak ares have won pulitzer prizes. quiet! mom has a headache! had a headache! but now, i& dont. excedrin is fast. in fact for some, relief starts in just 15 minutes. exce...

Narrowed to, say, 5,000 square miles. a robot sub may be brought in. cnns randi kaye reports. it works like sonar to capture images from the floor. >> reporter: this robot submarine may hold the key to finding malaysia airlines flight 370. its called the remus 6,000. its 13 feet long, weighs almost a ton, and costs about $2.5 million. mike purcell is the principal engineer here. >> they can go up and down mountains that are up to 40 degrees in slope. they are very stable so you get really good d...

They failed. they were plugging in the wrong numbers. they werent calculating it right. they spent two years looking in the wrong stretch. they recalculated using a new kind of math and found it within a week. >> besides being great at math, what do they need? i mean, what kind of equipment will they use? are we talking submarines, explorer vessels? >> in air france 447 they were able to use for the first time a new kind of high-tech underwater autonomous vehicle, basically a robot sub that coul...

The leak. breaking news, we just got word from bp that the cap, which was removed after a robot sub bumped into it, is back on and oil now is once again being contained. its attached again. we dont know whether the vents are open or shut. theres no way of knowing how much oil is being collected if any, in fact. the statement does say that oil is -- im just reading it right now, actually -- is being sent up to the top, to the ship. the statement -- whats annoying is that the statement that cnn re...

Looking at the live feed of the leak. breaking news, we just got word from bp that the cap, which was removed after a robot sub bumped into it, is back on and oil now is once again being contained. its attached again. we dont know whether the vents are open or shut. theres no way of knowing how much oil is being collected if any, in fact. the statement does say that oil is -- im just reading it right now, actually -- is being sent up to the top, to the ship. the statement -- whats annoying is th...

Crews up above as we speak maneuvering that giant containment vessel into position. they have almost got it there. trying to cap the gusher thats been poisoning land and sea for the last two weeks. now the slick from it is now drifting westward toward the mississippi delta. federal authorities today expanding the area off limit to fishing and closing the national wildlife refuge to speed cleanup operations there. another view of the oil here from just beneath the surface. this is what it looks l...

Federal authorities today expanding the area off limits to fishing and closing the national wildlife refuge to speed cleanup operations there. another view of the oil here from just beneath the surface. this is what it looks like underwater. all those dots are oil. crews have now dumped more than a quarter million gallons of dispersant to try to break up the oil. theyve laid out nearly 800,000 feet of containment booms. 256 vessels are involved in the effort, but none is more important as the ve...

Retirements because as charlie cook likes to say, 53 incumbents are holding parties compared to four years ago. tough to keep the house if those flip. >> the passing. h of representative john murtha, eric massa in new york, a lot of open democratic seats. >> reporter: indeed. a lot of places where the gop is going to pump a lot of money and really try and, i guess you could say, launch their first offensive into getting all the democratic seats. >> luke russert on the ground at the capitol. than...