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Chief of airlines.com. and we are expecting the results of the oil sample sometime soon. what is the status of that? >> yes, don, we are in fact -- the oil came ashore and delivered down to perth yesterday. we understand it is a 24-hour period for analysis. the analysis we understand is a 24-hour period. we hope today, by 1:02 -- 12 midnight that they will learn if it is hydraulic oil or something thrown by a passing ship. but there seems to be a high level of confidence that this was not the us...

The blewfin-21 submersible drone collected the underwater data. it completed its first full mission wednesday after two previous efforts were cut short by glitches. the bluefin has now mapped about 90 square kilometers, or about 35,000 square miles on the ocean floor. >> also they analyzed an oil sample that was spotted on the ocean surface inside that search zone. officials hope to learn if it is aviation fluid or it might be something else. families of passengers want answers. they thought the...

It is a plan that they have. theyre not being very clear about how exactly that would happen at this point, though. >> paula hancock reporting from south korea this morning. sdmrimplt for the families and passengers aboard malaysia airlines flight 370, its been 41 days of anguish, and still no answers. today the malaysian government announcing they will soon send a delegation to game beijing to brief the families on the search. the relatives have taken their fight to get more information on-line...

Flight 370. this means there is still no physical trace at all of this plane. no debris, no oil slick. is this discouraging to officials there? >> reporter: i think officials here in perth are confident that they are looking in the right place. and theyre still very determined to see this mission through. all along, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating this effort when referencing that oil slick and the two-liter oil sample that was being brought to shore to be analyzed, he said i...

The navy says this latest problem not at all unusual. but it is driving home the many challenges involved with the bluefin mission. first dive aborted because it went into waters deeper than it was programmed to go. despite interruptions the bluefin has been able to download data. so far, no evidence of the plane. >> its absolutely confounding to me that weve not seen a single shred of concrete evidence. >> reporter: and the bluefin-21, wolf, has been down of the third run above the ocean floor ...

Investigation is, the better theyre going to feel about it. and as rene reported, many of these questions could simply have been answered during the first week of the investigation. how the elt works, whether its protected. its not, you know, those are simple questions and a simple answer develops a bond of trust. >> missed opportunities. hold on for a moment. i want to go back to perth, australia. jeffrey thomgeoffrey thomas is editor in chief of airlineratings.com. hes been heldful to us. what...

Didnt even imagine when they first arrived here. >> we looked at 75 markets around the world which is half the planet that doesnt yet have commercial solar power. there are 1.6 billion people on the planet today without electricity. 1.6 billion. i cant picture that. look at the people on the planet, the same people, the ones that dont have clean water, the same people, all preventible. the government has asked us to build the solar field. it will supply about 10% of your entire countrys energy. ...

Took from -- the samples in michigan, rather, are not jimmy hoffa. there is no human remains under there. they took that soil sample. they analyzeed the sample but there were no human remains beneath that michigan driveway. remember, a witness said that he saw a body being buried there about the time that jimmy hoffa disappeared in 1975. now we have learned there was nothing there. the driveway stays. jimmy hoffa remains a mystery. >> the u.s. consulate in benghazi faced more than a dozen securi...

Much harder. >> if youre in the wilderness for years and youre not winning and we have 8% unemployment and we should win this thing and youre about to not win this thing, you cant blame your ideology. you want to blame the candidates or polls or media. >> i have to go or else i get blamed for this if we go too long. thank you so much. well see all of you on "the cycle" every weekday at 3:00 p.m. on msnbc, the place for politics. theres new developments in one of the countrys most enduring myst...

Forensic anthropologist and if it is in fact human remains they will dig up the driveway. this is sparking a whole lot of interest in the neighborhood. >> shep: i was in the union when jimmy went missing. so i have an interested, of course. i thought im in the neighborhood and come and see if he was there or not. >> reporter: soil sample gets pulled out tomorrow. we should know by tuesday or wednesday if in fact there are human remiansz under that driveway. >> shep: well see. you have to line up...