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>> reporter: three days after ocean shield discovered an oil slick, a sample has finally arrived in perth for testing. the australian transportation safety board has custody of the sample. still no timeline on when the results will come in. >> would the oil have survived this far? temperatures are cold. it depends how warm the temperatures are and how strong the winds are for how long the oil takes to either evaporate or emulsify and sink to the bottom. >> while i went through line by line all of the families' questions with former ntsb board member john golia. it is a very long list. he said ...

Of the bluefin. it covers the towed pi eed ping locaters deployment, that found the underwater signals more than a week ago. it covers the costs for ten operators onboard the ocean shield. that would include the nine phoenix operators plus probably one navy operator. it also covers their transportation to the region and then back to the united states. presumably also transportation for the equipment onboard the ocean shield. but, again, this is just the u.s. navy's allocation for this phase of this operation. it does not include what the australians are spending to deploy the ocean shield. >> ...

We'll bring the latest from seoul on the search in a few minutes. more breaking news from the indian ocean where the bluefin 21 is scanning the ocean looking for wreckage from flight 270. it's the unmanned sub hoping to find the jet missing for 40 days. aaron mcclaughlin is live. any indications on the search? >> reporter: nothing so far. we understand the bluefin 21 having to resurface due to a technical glitch. they downloaded the data, analyzed it, saw no objects of interest. the good news is they were able to put it back down into the water. we are also awaiting test results of that oil ...

Vehicle being counted on to map the ocean floor for possible debr debris. according to christopher johnson, just for the u.s. navy's allocation for this particular part of the operation, they've budgeted $3.6 million for their part of this operation. that covers the deployment of the towed pinger locater which was previously used in the past few days, the deployment of the bluefin-21 over the past three days, ten operators on board the "ocean shield" and transportation for those operators and presumably the equipment to the region and back to the u.s. that's just what the u.s. navy has budgete...

Fraction of the 15-square-mile area that was supposed to have been yesterday's mission, an area that authorities here had determined the most probable place to find the black box, based on the ping detections that they had picked up last week. now, in terms of what happened, well, the bluefin-21 went down there. it searched and it came across an area that was deeper than its depth capacity. it's only supposed to go some 4.5 kilometers or 2.8 miles beneath the ocean surface. it encountered waters deeper than that. and as a precaution, it just simply resurfaced. now, technicians on board the "oc...