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The flight was originally on it ways from paris -- to paris from rio. airport officials say the plane taxied to a secluded part of the airport after landing and all 405 passengers and crewmembers were evacuated and put up in hotels for the night. oil is pouring into the gulf of mexico, almost completely unabated as bp strives to completely contain that oil leak once and for all. the company has removed the cap that was partially covering the spewing well and will attempt to replace it with a b...

Is entitled to-- is intended to provide a tighter fit over that pipe coming out of the well. the problem is when they cut the pipe, it was an imperfect cut, a jagged cut so the existing cap was only able to contain at best about half of the oil leaking out of it. with this new, custom fitting cap, theyre hoping to contain all the oil leaking out of the well as interim solution while they continue to dig the two relief wells which will be the permanent solution, only then, only once they complete...

>> brian: we have just learned that the underwater robots started to work to remove the cap from the gushing oil well, which could contain if everything goes well with a new cap the well by monday. malini wilkes is standing by with more on that. and your other top stories. hello. >> reporter: hi, brian. the robots are replacing the well head with a tighter fitting cap to allow more ships to hook up and siphon off the oil. while its installed, up to 5 million additional gallons of oil could flow ...

Seems to think we could have this thing capped by monday and stop all of the oil from gushing if things go according to plan. do you buy it? >> well, even today, they say that theyre gonna try to swap out that ill fitting cap thats only collecting a fraction of the oil with one that actually fits so this could happen as early as today and theyre moving this oil recovery vessel, the helix into place to try to capture some of this oil you see flowing. >> here you go. theyre going to remove the cap...

Cars, including jeep liberty and dodge rams due to a brake problem. new signs of hope, engineers will begin work on a new an ambitious plan to completely contain the gushing oil well once and for all. lets go live to venice, louisiana and ann thompson with a good saturday morning. what is this new plan? >> reporter: good morning, alex, it is a complicated procedure that is going to start today. and we will watch, well pay very close attention to whats happening 5,000 feet under the sea because...

Allen said yesterday he is looking at a mid-august target for that relief well to be finished and then for it to kill the well thats out of control. bob dudley told "wall street journal" and our kerry sanders that think think -- bp thinks that the well could be killed perhaps as early as july 27th. but allen said he -- he is learned to underpromise and overdeliver in this case and so hes still sticking to the mid-august date. as to the simultaneous removal of the containment cap, a tighter fitti...

These voluntary steps is that kim jong-un has proposed. it is a leaky and loose fitting cap, turned into a hard cap. thats the first priority, to cover more missiles, to really pin down what he means by a nuclear test freeze. and then to progressively screw that cap on tighter until there is little room left underneath it. we cant expect them to say, for example, sure, pull the ships in. weve got everything packed up and we will hand it over, which is literally what john bolton says he expects. ...

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To the floridas east coast. theyre the first that theyre planning to relocate. on the heels of that lets go to anne thompson. good morning to you. whats the latest? >> reporter: hi, alex, we just received a technical briefing from bp. so far, so good. things are going according to plan. theyve removed the cap. theyve removed the six bolts that were holding a flan j in place. that is off, and so work continues. thats the good news. the bad news is in order to put this system in thats going to d...

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