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Through stories including a new search location for possible wreckage from malaysia airlines flight 370, and several flights have had close encounters with drones near one of the country's busiest airports. >> first, the epa says a mine waste spill that turned the colorado river orange, which was much bigger than they initially thought, the spill, they say, is at 3 million gallons and the waste is still leaking. water sample collected contain higher than normal levels of arsenic and other heavy metals. not clear if it poses a risk to humans and animals, but looks to me like it can't be very go...

The 19-year-old was ticketed for public urination and could face other charges due to the cost of the clean-up. a water sample is being analyzed. while the risk to public health is said to be almost nonexistence, the portland water bureau decided to flush all 38 million gallons of water and clean the reservoir. >> the reason is because my commitment to our customers is we're not going to deliver them water that we know has been contaminated, even if it's a little tiny bit. >> and the other reason is this is a drop in the bucket for the water bureau. they have 17 billion gallons of water sittin...

Of images that crews consider to be the most promising. as for the oil slick spot 3d 1/2 miles away, they are still chasing for that lead, waiting for the water sample to reach australia. >> certainly, we're analyzing the water sample to see if it was a petroleum product and we'll know that over the next couple of days and there's many possible sources of an oil sheen on the surface of the ocean but it would be one explanation is that it was lubricating fluid or control oil from the aircraft. >> reporter: as the search for the critical black boxes conditions, an almost equally critical questio...

>> once it hit that max depth, it said, hey, this is deeper than i'm programmed to be, so it aborted the mission. >> the bluefin did collect data, which included first-ever images of the sea floor, but they showed nothing of interest in areas crews considered to be the most promising. as for the oil slick spotted nearly three and a half miles away, they are still chasing that lead, waiting for the water sample to reach australia. >> certainly, we're analyzing the water sample from that area to see if it was a petroleum product related to the aircraft, and we'll know that over the next couple o...

Increase of signal strength as we drove into the area, gaining and losing the contact as we expect. and additional factor pointing us in that direction is the oil slick that was observed the other day. we are analyzing the water sample to see if it was a petroleum product related to the aircraft. and there's many possible sources of an oil sheen on the surface of the ocean. but it's -- you know, would be one explanation is that it was lubricating fluid or control oil from the aircraft. >> so just so i understand on the aborting the bluefin today, it's not manually controlled? it's just automat...