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The government says they have granted bp a 22-hour extension to test the cap. and bp will sell off its pipeline in the gulf. they have to sell it off in order to pay for damage claims and cleanup in the gulf. charles hadlock is live for us in venice, louisiana. whats the very latest? day 92 now, what can we expect to learn from the cap and the seeping thats happening from this? >> thomas, bp would like to keep that cap in place on a day by day basis and thats what the coast guard would like to s...

Government worried but the cap will stay on for another 24 hours. july 19th, 2010. im chuck todd. >> good morning. im savannah guthrie. we begin in the gulf where the good news is that well is still capped and holding. the bad news, toxic elements may still be leaking into the water. charles hadlock is live for us in venice, louisiana. charles, good morning. bring us up to date. >> reporter: good morning. the coast guard says its detected a leak on the sea floor this after the wellhead itself is...

Containment cap covering the gushing oil well in the gulf. robots have taken off the existing cap. well have more on that in a moment. the coast guard says it will wait for more in-depth testing to find out if oil found on texas beaches is from the spill. the coast guard initially said the tar globs were not from the bp spill but that may have been premature. wild life officials say the first 100 sea turtle hatch lings have been evacuated to floridas east coast. they are the first of several hun...

Going to be meeting. it is all fenced off with nine-foot high fences down in the sort of financial district of toronto. that is the place where people are not going to be allowed to march and, of course, the concern is that that is going to be exactly the place where so many of the demonstrators are going to be making a b-line, alex. >> well, thank you very much for updating us on things calm right now. kevin tibbles. vice president joe biden will head to the gulf to check on the oil disaster....

Federal fishing waters, mainly south of mississippi and small sections along louisiana and central florida. im ann thompson in venice. now, chris, back to you. >> thank you. we just learned that that dolphin died. a couple tourist husbas had cal wildlife officials to try to save her. you were down there how long? >> well, weve been down there since the very beginning of this bil spill. >> when you see what happened with the dolphin and you see that little girl crying, even though youre down th...

Louisiana closed the shrimping beds west of the mississippi. as you know, fishing has been closed all along the state waters east of the mississippi and seafood is a crucial industry down here, as is charter boat fishing. and communities like venice have been impacted severely by this oil spill, even though oil has yet to reach its shores. alex? >> yeah. you know what, ann, youre saying at the top of your report a whole bunch of ifs and we hope and all that, and you said 48 hours. granted we kno...

Failure of fail-safe equipment may have caused the explosion. right now, crews are waiting for a 100-ton concrete and steel dome to completely settle into the mud to contain all that gushing oil. nbc chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson is live for us in venice, louisiana. so ann, with a good morning, the containment efforts, how do things look so far? what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, so far, so good. alex, they were able to get that dome, first of all, into the water. ...

Failure of fail-safe equipment apparently is what caused that deadly explosion. right now crews are waiting for a 110-ton concrete and steel box to settle around that mud and the ruptured well to contain most of that gushing oil. correspondent ann thompson is live for us in venice, louisiana. ann, good morning to you. whats the latest on this containment effort? >> reporter: good morning, alex. as you said, the cruiser keeping a very close eye on that containment dome. it was placed over the lea...

Bottom as they put it in exactly the right place where it needs to go. >> david mattingly in venice, thanks. with every hour that passes, the crisis in the gulf worsens. threatening some of the most sensitivity wetlands. the chandeleur islands are a refuge there. an exclusive look at a large orange slick on to have and underneath the water. take a look. >> reporter: the water is about 18 inches deep. ive seen some fish swimming through it. to get a better glimpse as to what it looks like under...

Jon: right now in the gulf of mexico a massive and technically-tricky operation underway. just before dawn bp crews began lowering a 100-ton containment dome, looks like a small townhouse, to try to drop it over the main source of the oil leak that could turn into an environmental disaster. trace gallagher is live for us in venice, louisiana, right now. how long before they get that thing on top of the leak, trace? >> reporter: well, jon, its about 4,000 feet down which means its a thousand feet...