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Meineke. we have the coolest customers. here are your headlines. an american is believed to be among those killed in twin bombings in uganda's capital of kampala. cnn has confirmed that at least six other u.s. citizens have been injured. multiple sources report the death toll is in the dozens. the twin explosions rocked a restaurant and a rugby club. crowds gathered at both places to watch sunday's final of the world cup. hard-line islamist rebels are suspected by police but so far there's no claim of responsibility. in the gulf of mex koerks bp hopes to have its new and improved containme...

You've been talking about, we're watching that. essentially as admiral allen says, they believe they could go either that containment cap moves into place and presuming that everything continues to work according to plan, that that would either cap off and there would be no more oil flow, probably at least 48 hours away from knowing whether or not that indeed will be the case. or if it does continue to work and some flow continues to come out, that they would move these vessels into place on the surface of the water that would help collect that. we'll see if that works. of course, there could ...

This period of time where the oil, as has been described, is just gushing out unabated. do we have any accurate assessment of just how much we are talking about in terms of barrels or gallons going into the ocean as you wait for this containment cap operation to be completed? >> well, kiran, the government estimate's always been between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day. we have been producing with the various devices that have been on the well before the last cap was removed somewhere around 25,000 barrels a day. we have continued to flare off about 8,000 barrels a day and the helix producer wi...

They unbolted it. that piece is gone. they bolted a new piece on here with a much better-looking flange. that flange is now straight enough and hard enough to get a new basically blowout preventer on top of this stack, a blowout preventer. they can spin it around. there are three different places that this thing will shoot, bang, bang, bang, it will shoot these layers, this knives into this oil and it will stop it from coming out altogether. that's what this is going to do, compared to that old thing that was just meant there to suck out the oil that was coming out. this is completely differen...

Showed you valves at the top, when they close those down, their hope is that it shuts off the well and stops the flow of oil. again they won't know that for testing over the next several hours once the cap is in place to get a snug fit and then the hope is you can see the larger picture in this feed, the valves are up here. if they shut these valves down and pressure at the base is secure and what they're worried about is if there's too much pressure you'll have the surface that becomes unstable and they would open the valves and take oil up to the top. the hope is this will just shut down. an...