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Right spot and that it is just a matter of time. they say be patient and we'll work out what is next. but tony abbott says they wouldn't give up even if they couldn't use this technology. >> and on the ocean surface there is this ocean slick being analyzed. it could be the first tangible piece of evidence. when will we know the results from that? >> well, hopefully very soon, john, yeah, this is the oil slick that the ocean shield saw and picked up a two liter sample from. it is here back in perth being analyzed as we speak. it took a while to get it back here, you know, we have to remember th...

That's what they're trying to figure out right now. crews are anding data from the bluefin 21 submersible. it completed its first full mission today. search officials may have to regroup and reconsider if the scan of the ocean floor doesn't pan out. he insists the search would continue in some form. an oil strip detected by the ocean shield is not from the flight 370 airliner. the sample tested negative for engine oil and hydraulic fluid. the bluefin-21 drone has covered three square miles during its first trip to the ocean floor, an area roughly the size of miami. the first two deep dives wer...

Area is about over 2,000 kilometers off the coast of western australia. they did pick up the two liters of oil that they found floating out there near where the ocean shield is. they bottled that. what they have to basically do is get a ship out there and then helicopter it to that ship. the ship can get it closer in and then the helicopter will take off again to get it here to perth. they said it would take two or three days. so in a day or so, we will know what that is. they have sent samples actually of the engine oil that would have been in mh-370's engines so that they can do a comparativ...

Search and we'll stay on top of this story. thank you for joining us, lieutenant. >> thank you, chris. glad to be here this morning. to the search for missing flight 370 this morning. the bluefin-21 submersible is back in the indian ocean this morning looking for any sign of the plane's wreckage. earlier it was forced to return to the surface to fix a technical issue. erin mclaughlin has the latest on the search live from perth, australia, for us. erin, have they given any information on what that technical glitch was? >> not at the moment, kate. we're still trying to get more information on...

Maintenance checks for the emergency locator transmitters? disrupt apparent in their demands for a copy of flight 370's log book and the raw au o audiotapes from air traffic control. >> the families should have access to all of that kind of information. >> reporter: meanwhile, the search in the indian ocean remains stop and go, with the second setback in as many days for the bluefin-21. the underwater robot's 24-hour mission cut to about 11 hours, after an oil, used to protect its electronic components from saltwater, ran low. data collected, again, showed no sign of flight 370. mission three ...