BLITZER: This just coming into THE SITUATION ROOM. The U.S. Senate has voted to restore jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed that ran out in December. The vote, 59-38, the measure would affect more than 2 million Americans, but the bill's fate in the Republican- controlled House of Representatives is not clear. House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes the bill because it doesn't include measures to create more private sector jobs. Some rank-and-file Republicans are pushing for him to allow a vote. However, we'll stay on top of that important story. We're also following all the breaking developments in the mystery of Flight 370. Crews are now searching the waters off Australia around the clock. They are trying to relocate electronic pings consistent with signals from a jet's black box. A commander tells me the U.S. Navy remains cautiously optimistic about this lead, but the caution is increasing every hour that they don't hear those pings once again. The batteries, by the way, in the two black boxes for all we know right now may already be dead. They are due to run out about now, a month after the plane took off and then vanished. Without battery power, the pings would stop. They are supposed to last, what, about 30 days. They could last a few days longer, so there's a desperate, desperate search right now to find those two black boxes. That's it for me. Thanks very much for watching. You can always follow us on Twitter. Go ahead and tweet me @WolfBlitzer. You can tweet the show @CNNSitRoom. "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT" starts right now.
Senate Votes to Restore Long Term Jobless Benefits