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>> thats a lot of nominations, dont you think? >> i thought the same thing. we need to limit this to five, right? >> its like every movie ever made is up for a nomination. >> so many people try and see all of those movies, right, if they havent seen them yet? thats a lot of movies youre going to have to go see. >> yeah, geez. >> complete list on cnn.com. >> i thought you were going to give us more, but no, youre going to force people to go there. >> go to the web. >> we will. thank you, jacqui. ...

But it is the first time that many americans now know that that building in their town is not a mexican restaurant! racism has never been ended by silence. thank you guys for coming out and supporting the show. top of the hour now. im carol costello. here are cnns big stories right now. president obamas polishing and practicing for tonights state of the union address. the white house says mr. obamas speech will lay out broad ideas for the economy and fiscal discipline during the second half of...

Buy a gun in this country. and i hope that he informs us that part of the reason that he got it is because we dont have a good enough system for catching people like him and preventing them from getting a gun in the first place. and then i hope he then also challenges america to question, if we really can have these kinds of assault weapons, these military-type weapons, in the hands of civilians and if that really makes us safer. >> and susanna, you fear more gun control laws. tell us why you th...

Square chanting for the regime. the police, even though everybody knew there would be protests today in cairo and around egypt, i dont think the police were prepared with how many people would show up. the police started firing tear gas and exchanges of rocks between the protestors and the police. earlier, just a few hours before that, i had been driving along the road that goes by the nile and i looked up and the bridge above me was filled with thousands of people crossing the nile, going to th...

>> well, we know that they have drilled most of the well, all of the way down the 100 feet from the intersection point. they have been casing wells, casing pieces of metal there, almost like an antenna, and you know the old antennas in the car and click, click, click, and get longer and longer, and the bot part of the antenna was fat and by the time you got to the 207, -- to the top, it was skinny, and they fit inside each other. well, they skinnier and skinnier as nay go down. well, the last pi...

Line? and, secondly, there seems to be recurring questions as to what this solution -- why wasnt this solution considered earlier in the process? >> first of all, i would say were probably -- the relief well is a little over 100 feet above the proposed intersection point, but they are pulling the bit back to the last cased section where they have the pipe in. theres another section theyre going to put pipe in. they are going to withdraw, got the rest of that wellbore filled with mud all of the w...

Forever more, until another relief well was in there, it would leak again and just leak at a different place. in theory, it could erode the floor of the ocean. >> well, in theory. but keep in mind the relief well is not going to hit. its five feet from an intersection point where it will turn and go another 30 feet and dig into the well that you and i are talking about. all that, thats the final solution. this cap and what were talking about does not solve of the problem for the long term. the r...

Were probably, the relief well is a little over 100 feet above the proposed intersection point. but theyre pulling the bit back to the last cased section. thats where they have the pipe in. theres another section theyre going to pult pipe in and they havent done that and theyre going to withdraw and have the rest of the wellbore filled with mud all the way down and were going to sit there until we have a couple hours of testing to make sure the increased pressure on the wellbore and the increase...

All thats spewing out of what is the top of that broken wellhead. thats welcomed news for sure. with 35 to 60,000 bashls a day spewing out when you take a look whats copping out of the q-4000 it is a little less than that. even if it does work it is not a final fix. lets listen to thad allen. >> this will significantly improve oursition regarding the am of oil coming to the surface while we finish the relief wells which are the final solution. >> that would be the final solution. they are hoping...