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Improved containment cap in place as early as wednesday. the massive device is designed to completely seal the broken well so all of the oil can be collected by a fleet of surface ships. fugitive teenager known as the barefoot bandit is behind bars. police in the bahamas captured cotton harris moore early this morning after a high-speed boat chase. officer also to shoot out the motors of the stolen boat. the 19-year-old harris moore had had been on the are run for two years after a lengthy cri...

The barefoot bandit is behind bars. police in the bahamas captured colton harris-moore early this morning after a high-speed boat chase. officers had to shoot out the motors of this boat. he had been on the run for two years after a lengthy crime spree in the pacific northwest. he arrived in the bahamas last weekend in a stolen plane. in the gulf of mexico, bp hopes to have its new and improved containment cap in place as early as wednesday. the device is designed to completely seal the broken...

Collect oil and lay boom. in lake pontchartrain, near new orleans, men and women will absorbent towel wipe brown oil from the marshes, tediously cleaning blade after blade of bayou grass. >> its frustrating. you want to see an end and do everything you can stop it. its an everyday battle. >> admiral thad allen today restating his optimism if everything goes well and they have 7-10 days of good weather forecast by noaa ahead of them right now, if everything goes well, and the cap does work as snu...

Relief well to go down there 18,000 feet. cement it shut. the governments estimate on that happening is still in august. >> shepard: if they are capturing all the oil in theory, we ought to be able to get an accurate flow rate, right? >> that makes sense. over the past 81 days the government estimates will then put in total three and a half million to 5 million barrels that have spilled into the gulf. but once you have all of this now being capped and contained. going to three surface ships. cle...

Surface. that goes down about 35,000 feet right above the spewing oil. the idea is it collects the oil and sea water all at once and brings it all the way up the pipeline, hose line, up to the surface ships keeping some percentage of that oil, perhaps a large percentage, out of the waters and not going to the surface. that is one of the method that has is going to be in place. according to bp that should be happening within eight to ten days. they were trying to get that going. think are also wo...

Will absorbent towel wipe brown oil from the marshes, tediously cleaning blade after blade of bayou grass. >> its frustrating. you want to see an end and do everything you can stop it. its an everyday battle. >> admiral thad allen today restating his optimism if everything goes well and they have 7-10 days of good weather forecast by noaa ahead of them right now, if everything goes well, and the cap does work as snugly as they hope, that truly, if all of the oil gushing in the gulf of mexico cou...