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From your investigative background more likely that there was some sort of human-caused problem here? >> yes. a human hand turned the plane and did this series of events. we know that from the evidence thats been released by the malaysian government and the reporting on it. but i would bracket what we know now, the radio call from the co-pilot, the transponder two minutes later, the manual press in of the new direction and western travel, and then the acars system is disabled. and then japanese ...

Iranian navy vessels, drones, and a patrol plane flying overhead. the shipping lane itself is only about two miles wide. so there is very little room to maneuver. thats the massive aircraft carrier "uss abraham lincoln" just behind me. hours into the crossing the captain was called to the deck. a small craft was approaching. boats similar to those of irans revolutionary guard navy that have been harassing u.s. ships for months. >> any surface vessel that you see out here youve definitely got to ...

of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. >> we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. >> absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment ...

Into the waters of the gulf of mexico here, and what theyre working to do now is put on a new, more efficient cap. this new cap called top hat number 10 is designed to seal that leak completely and then direct that oil to surface vessels so essentially all of it is contained and none of is leaking into the waters here. now they started that yesterday. bp says it will take about four to seven days to complete. now there is more oil gushing into the water now that the initial cap has been removed....

Because they do still have a surface vessel in place that is collecting some of the oil. theyre also working on connecting a second surface vessel so that they can at least collect some of that oil while working on switching out this cap. now the reason that they are working on this now is because theyre trying to take advantage of a nice stretch of weather. were in hurricane season. if a bad storm were to come across it could interfere with the efforts a and cleanup and collecting oil. theyre t...

And theyre hoping that that along with another surface vessel theyre going to connect to that busted well will be able to contain virtually all of that oil. now, this is about containment. its not about shutting down the source of that oil, that would come in the form of these relief wells that theyre currently working on. this week, bp has said theyre a little bit ahead of schedule, that they could possibly be done by the end of july, about two weeks earlier than they had said before. and if th...

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...

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...

Pipelines that are already in the area, again, to try to divert that flow of oil. they are also continuing with their plans of containment. right now theyre trying to connect a surface vessel to that well so they can keep as much oil as possible from getting into the water. thats something theyre working on connecting right now. >> mara, thank you. >> it was so hot in washington nancy pelosi skipped the botox and had her face injected with frozen yogurt. thats how bad. >> from heat to high humid...

They want them to appear at a meeting on thursday and theyve already said theyre not coming. bp rigged another containment system in the gulf. this isnt just capturing oil, it is burning it off. mara, why would they burn it and create all that pollution in the air instead of just recapturing, and i dont know, refine it and use it? >> thats a great question, contessa. this second containment system is designed to direct oil to a surface vessel. theyre hoping to get to about 10,000 barrels of oi...