going to happen with it and try to improve that economy in that section of manhattan. let s do this. let s get some folks at home, wherever you are right now, to weigh in on this at the blog, cnn.com/tony. josh, help us work through some of these blog comments later on. thank you. day 86 of the gulf oil disaster and bp plans to test a new cap on the busted oil well. well, that plan is on hold right now. officials say they need to review the testing procedures before they move forward. the hope is that the massive custom designed cap might contain the flow of oil or allow most of it to be captured. but tests could also reveal more damage to the well. lots of questions for bp about the delay in testing the cap and several operations overall, really. complaints about the claims process and other issues. chief operating officer doug suttles is taking questions at a media roundtable in destin, florida right now. we hope to speak to him later in
it has been delayed, as we know. that is going to be worked out throughout the course of the day. the team is meeting midday to decide the next steps to continue and go ahead or delay it while they review testing procedures. on a much lighter note, everyone wants to have beautiful babies but not everyone wants to leave it to chance. we re going to tell you in the next hour about a very controversial dating website only for hot people and they ve added a virtual sperm bank. in the next hour. hot is the weather headline for the nation s midsection. 18 states now under heat advisories, dangerous heat. we re tracking that, and there are some severe storms rolling across the upper midwest. all interesting stories. thanks to all of you. nearly five years after katrina brought chaos to new orleans, the feds go offer the cops involved in the shootings
informed source tells cnn there were quote potential complications. that means the actual testing will not begin before sometime today at the very earliest. in the gulf of mexico, all eyes are on this latest effort to snuff out the oil. we have brian todd in houston, texas, who spoke with the government s point man on the crisis. brian, any sense of what s behind this latest delay? reporter: well, don, what we re told is first, we can tell you where we are in the process. what we re told by bp officials is that the response team, the incident command, bp officials and others are going to be meeting at midday today to decide the next steps in the operation. you mentioned the delay in the well integrity tests. we are told by bp officials they are reviewing testing procedures. what they want to make sure is that they understand the readings that they re going to
valves on its new containment cap. yeah. and those crucial integrity tests have been put on hold. the reason why according to bp, they say they need more time to analyze how they re going to be doing the testing procedures and, because of that, they want to wait before they begin the complicated tests. the stakes are so high, that retired admiral thad allen is actually refusing to put any odds on success knowing that the fate of the gulf and bp may rest on whether this cap is the fix to stop the gushing oil. our david mattingly is live in new orleans. you had a chance yesterday to spend the day with the coast guard. you were actually visiting the site of the oil spill. what did you see? reporter: kiran, what i saw was a massive operation out there in the middle of the gulf of mexico that appeared to be gearing up to collect oil, not gearing down, just in case this cap plan doesn t work. you re looking at the u.s. coast guard cutter resolute. that ship was our ride out here.
funeral service for pat till man because of words his family was using. you remember the janet jackson wardrobe malfunction? has that been brought up and is it a part of this debate? it is. the court decision talks about it and says the fc krcht s enforcement were in large part caused by this, that broadcast, the 2006 super bowl during which, as the court rights here, justin timber lake exposed janet jackson s breast for a half second. it was after that that you had the government take off with restricts and bigger fines, and that led ultimately to the decision. thank you. on day 86, bp is reviewing the testing procedures on the new containment cap for the blownout well. other top stories we re following, hong kong lawmakers are debating the city s first