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>> it's a failure of all of us and we need to pay more attention to it. thank you for doing that in port-au-prince today. major league baseball has lost one of its most cherished voices. bob shepard died sunday at the age of 99. shepard started with the yankees in. here he is the man that baseball players and fans alike call the voice of god. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to yankee stadium. ladies and gentlemen, yogi berra. number 23, don mattingly. number 23.

captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. the oil from that well in the gulf of mexico has been spewing full bore into the water all weekend long, but bp says a new cap it's moving into position over that oil well could capture most of the flow. now, 84 days into this crisis that has transformed and fouled the gulf of mexico. this is a cap and it's not the same as those so-called relief wells. they are getting close to bisecting the well itself. we want to begin our reporting tonight with the new effort to stop this flow. our chief environmental affairs correspond...

optimism. bp engineers say they are making progress in containing the gushing oil well in the gulf of mexico. they've begun installing a new cap which bp officials say may finally capture most of the leaking oil. kristen dahlgren joins us live from venice, louisiana. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, so far all reports are so far so good. it this new cap is designed to fit better, make a tighter seal and also be able to pump more oil to ships with higher capacity up at the surface, that is if it can withstand the immense pressures down at that depth and if they don't run...

optimism. bp engineers say they are making progress in containing the gushing oil well in the gulf of mexico. they've begun installing a new cap which bp officials say may finally capture most of the leaking oil. kristen dahlgren joins us live from venice, louisiana. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, so far all reports are so far so good. it this new cap is designed to fit better, make a tighter seal and also be able to pump more oil to ships with higher capacity up at the surface, that is if it can withstand the immense pressures down at that depth and if they don't run...

good evening. the oil from that well in the gulf of mexico has been spewing full bore into the water all weekend long, but bp says a new cap it's moving into position over that oil well could capture most of the flow. now, 84 days into this crisis that has transformed and fouled the gulf of mexico. this is a cap and it's not the same as those so-called relief wells. they are getting close to bisecting the well itself. we want to begin our reporting tonight with the new effort to stop this flow. anne thompson starting us off yet again in venice, louisiana, tonight. ann, good evening. ...