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By wind and waves. and so, according to experts, much of it was reabsorbed into the environment. >> mother nature is doing what shes supposed to do, and were 700 skimmers on call, but in recent days there has not been a lot to skim. national incident commander thad allen says the kill of the well will begin next monday, and that well should be cemented shut once and for all by saturday, august 7th. jeffrey kofman, abc news, buras, louisiana. with flood damage estimates approaching $40 million,...

Life, did i get somebody killed? >> reporter: manning told the hacker he downloaded the classified information onto cds which previously had music by artists such as lady gaga burned onto them. rob and vinita? >> thanks, t.j. and our coverage of the leaked war documents will continue later this morning. well take you live to washington on "america this morning." well look at the backlash on "good morning america" and get insight on the website that posted the secrets later during this half hour....

Movie. who is salt? youll find out today. >> pretty good. well see that in 30 minutes. good morning, everybody. im rob nelson. >> im vinita nair. theres a major change coming in the leadership of bp. an american, robert dudley, is expected to be named the oil companys ceo as early as today. >> dudley would replace tony hayward, whos made repeated missteps in his handling of the disaster. diana alvear has the latest now from the gulf. good morning, diana. >> reporter: rob and vinita, good morni...

Im rob nelson. >> im vinita nair. >> the massive operation to stop the giant oil spill in the gulf is slowing down this morning and may be going backwards. >> after a week of hard-fought gains that finally gave gulf residents a little bit of hope, that battered region is now facing a new threat. john hendren is in buras, louisiana, with the very latest. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. with that oil spill seeming closer than ever to ending for good, today there is t...

Crumpled up around one of the biggest bird colonies in the gulf three weeks after hurricane alex. to prevent a disaster like this from happening again, four oil giants have pulled together $1 billion to fund a new system that would be able to contain vast amounts of o in the past two years they have spent just a fraction of t oil spill research. matt gutman, abc news, buras, bps ceo tony hayward may be back before congress sometime soon. there are now reports hes been invited to testify about ...

Underground well and doing so much environmental damage, doing so much damage to wildlife, to beaches, to livelihood, that makes you angry and i want bp to sort it out. >> reporter: damage that has already cost bp tens of billions of dollars. john hendren, abc news, buras, louisiana. democratic lawmakers are set to approve an extension of benefits to the long-term unemployed today. they broke through a republican filibuster yesterday with the help of the new senator from west virginia. carte g...

>> and nick schifrin at the big international conference going on in kabul. thanks, nick. in the gulf of mexico this morning, bps ruptured well is leaking oil and gas. but for now, the containment cap will stay in place. while engineers monitor for any signs that the disaster could get even worse. john hendren is in buras, louisiana, with the latest on the ongoing well watch. hi, john. >> reporter: good morning, vinita and rob. it was supposed to be a two-day test, we are now in day five and b...

Flow freely into the gulf of mexico, millions would have gushed out. then news that perhaps those bubbles indicated only small leaks. too minor to change anything in the containment cap. admiral allen penned a blistering letter, packed with commands like, you must provide, you are required, and i direct you. the admiral wanted more information about the leaks, faster, and he demanded to know whether bp intends to keep the well shut in. >> here we find ourselves at a point which we hope would be ...

Senators from new york and new jersey over the issue as well. this morning the gulf of mexico, the containment cap on bps ruptured well is leaking oil and gas. but for now, the government is allowing that cap to stay in place. matt gutman is in buras, louisiana, now with the latest on the ongoing well watch. >> reporter: it began as a tense day here in the gulf of mexico. at first, we heard that those leaks, those bubbles that appeared before bps cameras underwater, may have signaled a signifi...

Des moines, chicago, cincinnati at risk for not only high winds but also damaging hail and isolated tornados. and it will be rainy from south texas to louisiana. >> temperatures in southern california will cool off after a warm weekend. denver will be near 100, 10 degrees hotter than usual. a state of emergency has been declared in eastern kentucky after flash flooding killed at least two people over the weekend. one woman died when she was swept away by high water. the other victim was leanin...