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>> the skies have been active all day. many of the companies out there choosing to wait until the last minute. ships on the move as well and they are ordered out of the scene around the ruptured oil well, ordered out last night. the point man for the government thad allen says getting it out of harm's way is a slow process. last night, development driller two and three were directed to detach from the drill sites. they are disconnecting from the lower marine riser package and they are in the process right now of pulling the riser pipe. >> shutting down the container operations and moving equip...

All day. many of the companies out there choosing to wait until the last minute. ships on the move as well and they are ordered out of the scene around the ruptured oil well, ordered out last night. the point man for the government thad allen says getting it out of harm's way is a slow process. last night, development driller two and three were directed to detach from the drill sites. they are disconnecting from the lower marine riser package and they are in the process right now of pulling the riser pipe. >> shutting down the container operations and moving equipment away could cause delay of...

Well bore, then they will attempt to move in and drill through the well bore and casing as well. at that point they'll be in a position to try to bottom-kill or insert the mud and hopefully of a that put a plug in to kill the well. development driller two is 6,720 feet below the sea floor and is making progress as well. our onshore and near-shore skimming and recovery operations have been significantly hampered by the weather. the small vessels that do the skimming have a difficult time operating out there. we had to pull them back. the same thing with the vessels operating around the well sit...

Will intersect with the gushing well 13,000 feet under the sea floor, allowing the company, presumably, to stop the flow from the broken well. a television camera crew was allowed a tour of one of the drilling sites on saturday. milissa rehberger tell you us what saw. >> reporter: above the damaged macondo well, a fire blames flammable gases that the apparatus collects with oil from 5,000 feet below. nearby, drilling operations for the relief wells. this is development driller two, the drilling site for one of the two relief wells that will intersect the broken well under the sea bed, 13,000 f...

Preventer. the blowout preventer failed to work on that rig. it's a key piece of evidence in the criminal investigation as to what happened on april 20th. once the seas are calm, and they need seas of three feet or less, they will begin to lift out the blowout preventer. it is a big and heavy lift. it is more than 1 million pounds. they've got to bring it up a mile through the water. eventually it will be barged to an evidence collection site in new orleans. then the development driller two will put the new blowout preventer on top of the well, it's it. once it basses that test, they can start...