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Massive leak. lets get the details live from venice, louisiana. with a good saturday morning to you, what can you tell us about this new plan? >> reporter: good morning, alex. essentially, what theyre trying to do is increase containment to the point that no more oil is leaking into the gulf. so this is about containment. its not about shutting down that well. and the way that theyre going to try to go about doing that is by replacing the current containment cap which has been successful to a de...

In southern china. tens of thousands evacuated. so far this year, about 400 people have died from flooding and landslides. and in australia today, a parachutist got caught up on power lines. she remained stuck there for an hour and a half before being rescued and suffered severe burns and was airlifted to a hospital for treatment. the incident knocked out power to 400 customers. and those are your fast five headlines. is the tide finally turning on the oil disaster? there is cautious optimis...

They would ever have a catastrophic blowout in deep water that theyd have to respond to. which shows they didnt care. they didnt get it. so obviously, and the other question this begs is what about the other 33 deep water rigs that want to get back to work out there? do they have this kind of containment cap and system engineered, built, ready to go? of course the answer is, no. so how dare they want to go back to work until they have thought through how they would respond to a catastrophic blow...

♪ ♪ now when you open and fund an account, oull get 200 commission-free trades. fidelity investments. turn here. ♪ >> reporter: from americas news head ers im marianne rafferty. crews are expected to replace a leaky containment cap. thad allen saying the new cap with an oil collecting ship could contain the leak in three days. proved both moves. bp is working on relief wells to intercept the leaking well below the sea floor they hope that will stop the leak completely. >> biggest u.s.-rus...

Those of your fast five headlines. cautious optimism along the gulf coast. crews might be able to finally contain the gushing oil well in the gulf of mexico by monday. lets get the details now from . >> what bp is working on is containment to the point where there is no more oil leaking in the gulf of mexico. they have a containment cap in place, its been successful in capping that oil. they have a service vessel in place collecting oil. what they want to do is replace that cap with a more eff...

Im jamie colby. new hope on day 82 of the disaster in the gulf, the government is saying the oil leak could be completely contained as early as monday if a new plan to seal the gusher works. engineers will begin removing the containment cap over the broken well today and theyll try to fit a tighter cap on it. and if that new cap works, it will funnel all the oil in to tankers. fox news turning into ground zero for the red hot debate on immigration. that happens today. protests expected against...

Make bp give the workers respirators. the effort to stop rather than conceal the spill could take a major step forward this weekend. bp is hoping to attach a tighter containment cap to the spill by monday morning. the oil will flow unimpeded after the current cap is removed earlier than that and bring a new vessel as well the helix producer collecting from a different part of the leak starting sunday. if all that fails possibly funnel the oil for miles along the sea floor to other wells. the pol...

Im alex witt, here are your fast five headlines. engineers are working to tighten the containment cap over the oil well gushing in the gulf. it could lead to total containment by monday. in pakistan, two suicide bombers struck outside a government office leaving 102 dead and 115 wounded. human rights officials say the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convict the of adultery is under review. more flooding and landslides in southern china. at least 27 people are dead and six...

New containment cap could be installed by this weekend. debt collectors may be breaking the law as they try to collect on past due bills. harassment complaints surged 50 mrz last year. the federal trade commission says not only are some of their practices inappropriate, but could you be down right illegal, as well. and a spy swap complete. both countries exchange the agents on chartered planes at an airport in autos tree a. u.s. ex pemed four agents yesterday. well, cavs fans out there. took...

Change out the current containment cap with one that would completely shut the well. subject to a time line that bp has presented me this afternoon, it is currently under review, and it is possible this weekend we could move to start removing the old cap and put the new containment cap in place. >> how long does that operation take? >> well, it would require removing the old cap, and then putting in place a new containment cap off of the riser and that could take three or four days, but at the e...