jeanne moos, cnn, new york. do you think he called kathy and broke up with her before let her know? it must have been a surprise to her, too. poor thing. she ll get over it. she ll find a new man. there are other fish in the alaskan sea. she knows how to operate the ice fishing drill. there you go.
being made in the gulf. the first family s headed to maine today for a weekend vacation in bar harbor. ed henry managed to get a brief, cautiously optimistic comment from the president yesterday. sir, are you enkoirnlgcourag the oil that is stopped flow the in the gulf. we re still in the testing phase. i ll have more about it tomorrow. the president s statement will happen during the 9:00 hour. we ll carry it live right here on cnn. probably a good idea to be cautious right now. even if we have seen the last drop of oil from this disaster, plenty of damage has already been done. that s where the white house s $20 billion man come in. he is kenneth feinberg. he ll be overseeing bp s $20 billion settlement fund starting next month. he held a town hall meeting to explain how he intends to make a lot of people who are hurting whole again, or at least try. amber lyon is in new orleans
in a bitter battle over charges of racism. many in the grass roots organization are insisting they re not racists but not helping the cause. one tea party leader coming out with a satirical blog that many say is nothing more than a racist rant. getting both sides of that story as well. nothing short of incendiary there. and up and running, join the live conversation now. go to cnn.com/amfix, we ll read your comments throughout the morning. kiran? we re not in the clear yet, but there is a sense of hope this morning that perhaps we are turning the page on the disaster in the gulf of mexico, and that it may be nearing an en. bp s containment cap, which they closed the valves on yesterday afternoon is holding. that means that the oil flow has now been stopped for more than 16 hours. right. now we ve been showing that box at the bottom of your screen the last 87, 88 days? well, you might not be seeing that quite so much, if the oil is not spilling. this is great news, but the
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out of that ruptured well. the before and after picture, and after bp cut the flow of oil into the gulf, its stock price actually took off. another chart to show you right now. the stock was up about $2.72. wow. or 7.6%. the stock, of course, is still off about 35% from where it was trading before the deepwater horizon disaster. they still are going to be paying out billions, both in the compensation package and cleaning up and on and on. not out of the woods. the president will make a statement about the gulf oil shutoff before leaving for his maine vacation. it will happen during the 9:00 a.m. eastern hour and you ll see it right here on cnn. live at 9:00. after a series of frustrating setbacks in the gulf, president obama has been careful not to start celebrating too early. here with that, and more, of what the events on the gulf could mean for the president s coming elections, our chief political correspondent candy crowley and at the white house,