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You see at the bottom, this is a very simple manual process. you see just people leaning over the edges of boats, doing what they can by hand. in this case, theyre putting lights in this boom so boats will see it at night. its a startlingly slow process especially when you consider that there are hundreds of miles now of damaged coastline. >> a lot of those shrimpers now coming back from a days work for b.p. where they make about $300 a day or about 1/5 of what they could make on a good night sh...

Pounds per square inch, climbing slightly. thats a little lower than they expected. they wonder, well, are there leaks anywhere? they did find some anomalies, some seepage in spots. they also found some methane bubbles but they dont think those are a concern or particularly from the leak in the well either. they think the reservoir has been depleted somewhat with oil the oil thats been leak into the gulf. thats certainly an option. theyre continuing these tests. when or if theyre going to pull t...

Day 92 of the oil spill disaster in the gulf of mexico, actually the third month, month three begins today. we are tracking the oil slick from the sea and from the air. but first let me bring you up to speed with what is going on. as you know, the oil well remains capped while they test the pressure under the earth. im going to show it to you in here. this is on an medication of what used to happen, oil flowing, they put this new cap on to the we will head, and as a result of that, there is no m...

U.s. government too dependent on outsiders to do that work? dana priest of the "washington post" will join us later this hour about her two-year-long investigation. a cnn exclusive. correspondent deborah feyerick talks with the developer after controversial islamic center that some want to build just two blocks from the world trade center site. >> why here? why so close? why? >> his answer ahead this hour. bp officials think that mud may deliver us a miracle in the gulf of mexico. it is a ne...

Be at odds over whether to leave that well capped, as bp wants to do, or allow some oil to seep out and be siphoned to ships in the gulf. bp says hooking up that containment system would leave oil once again spewing freely into the gulf for three days. >> here we find ourselves at a point which we would hope would be the end of this opera. but instead, we have this nagging doubt that something very serious might be wrong. >> reporter: bp has another idea. >> in terms of the static kill, this is ...

Blowout preventer. are they an indication of methane? theyre testing for that. the third problem is a small leak in the flange of the capping stack. that essentially is the bottom of the ceiling cap. and they dont seem too concerned about that. so, the government green lighted this test to go ahead for another 24 hours which takes us to about mid afternoon today. and well see if they get another 24 hours. but in the meantime, bp has announced yet another plan b. i call this one plan b to about t...

To refresher courses on chemistry and biology. abcs john hendren points out five lessons learned. >> reporter: the oil spill has brought us new phrases. top cap. top kill. blowout preventer. junk shot. but over the past three months its also given us a litany of fascinating oil trivia that you probably never knew, and now wont be able to get out of your he >> no, i didnt know that. >> reporter: here are our top five things weve learned from llgulfco. number one, oil evaporates. who knew that muc...

Control, and the well -- relief well finished. so its a mixed bag of feelings here with business owners, with residents and tourists. they want to put their hope into this, but they have also been through a lot over these nearly three months of top kill and other things that they have tried down there. so theyre not going to get, you know, their hopes up too high. but they also say this is the key. theres a lot of oil already out there, they know theyre going to have to deal with in the coming m...

>> yes. >> yes. >> thank you. this is good news. this is the only good news weve had in 80 plus days. im a little happy here. >> you should be down here. theres been no good news here. >> anne, great to see you. thanks for coming in on "hardball." bab cavnar is an executive with the oil industry. just confirms. it seems optimistically theyll either cap it off with this new technology theyve applied today, or theyll be able to divert it up to the ships and not spew any more oil into the gulf. is ...

Orderinger them. i would rather push supply than waiting for a demand we cant answer. >> hi. thank you. if the pressure is low at the top of the well zrk that indicate that oil is flowing out through some other point of the well and if so, what are the theories on where its escaping? >> thats what were going to try to determine from the pressure. one could make a case that there are issues with the casing and wellbore itself. i dont think well know that until we take the pressure readings and se...