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capping out of all that oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. workers have managed to insert a four-inch tube down to the spill site, capturing some of the leaking oil and pumping it to a ship on the surface of the gulf. after weeks of bad news, theyre calling it a positive step forward. >> we ran the -- they call it the riser insertion tube tool. and they ran it last night and started to get oil up to the surface into the drill ship. then we had a small problem and the tool came out of...

Going to be able to siphon off and prevent from going into the environment. thats been the full focus of this operation, is to stem the flow of oil not water. and at this point, bp cant say exactly how much theyre going to succeed at doing that. >> can you answer this next question, where do we go from here, whats next in this process, david? >> whats next, now that theyve tak taken this step to stem the floesh flow, they have to stop the flow. theyre looking at injecting a substance called kill...

Weve asked some very pointed questions about what sort of success theyre going to have with this and theyre not able to answer that yet, because the system is so new. every step has been an experiment and theyre waiting to find out perhaps another 24 hours before they know just how much oil theyre going to collect with this. >> all right. theyre waiting for another 24 hours, but then what happens beyond this? whats next? >> reporter: this is just the first step. they wanted to stem the flow of o...

Theyre going to be able to collect with this process. weve asked some very pointed questions about what sort of success theyre going to have with this and theyre not able to answer that yet, because the system is so new. every step has been an experiment and theyre waiting to find out perhaps another 24 hours before they know just how much oil theyre going to collect with this. >> all right. theyre waiting for another 24 hours, but then what happens beyond this? whats next? >> reporter: this is ...

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That containment dome failed. >> david, while we were looking at a graphic that showed a submersible, it also showed some of that pipeline or tube that would make its way a mile down, were there any kind of visuals that were offered during that press conference to try and show how they will be able to watch the success or failure of this? >> reporter: again, what theyre looking at, the success of this will be determined in how much oil they eventually collect and how much they are able to take f...

Simultaneously. but using this kill mud, what they call it, is going to supposedly kill this flow of oil. >> amazing, these processes are very interesting. thank you. we will check back with you. we want to turn now to thailand where bullets with flying sfleet fly ing in the streets of bangkok. just today, seven people were killed in fighting. bringing the death toll to 31 since thursday. bang skok nokok is normally con safe enough to a tract thousands of tourists. as our dan rivers tells us, ...

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