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Today in the gulf of mexico that we've been awaiting on. we're pleased to receive that permit to drill. we have other exploration plans slow in going through the regulatory process. we have another drill ship that's headed to the united states. we want to put it to work here in the fall. we need additional permits for more wells. and we hope we'll see that process timely. >> did any of you feel tempted to turn the questioning on the questioners? in other words, to say we might not be in this energy pickle we're in, senator, if you just let us drill for more oil here. did you ever feel tempted ...

Now is relatively clean up towards the -- parts of the florida panhandle and back towards the mississippi. those areas are certainly on guard for the possibility of? seeing more oil come in again because of this storm. the other issue, of course, cleanup. the well situation. as you mentioned. they had to unplug the drill ship and move it out of harm's way. when winds get to gale force which they think they will, going over the well site, they have to get it out of there. they had to move it. they started the process last night. it is a long project. takes two, three, up to four days to unplug ...

Bp says it's expecting the latest attempt to be the one that does the trick. capping out of all that oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. workers have managed to insert a four-inch tube down to the spill site, capturing some of the leaking oil and pumping it to a ship on the surface of the gulf. after weeks of bad news, they're calling it a positive step forward. >> we ran the -- they call it the riser insertion tube tool. and they ran it up night and started to get oil up to the surface into the drill ship. then we had a small problem and the tool came out of the riser, but they got that rein...

And place this might longs, six inch diameter tube into the pipe to siphon up the oil to a tanker that is on the surface. in order to do that the tube has to be passed through a framework device that is on the ocean bottom. that is when bp officials say they begin to encounter problems. >> this tool sits in a metal frame so that the drill pipe lowered from the discover enterprise the drill ship, can connect to it. when they attempted it, the frame shifted and what they had to do they brought the tool back to the surface and reorient the frame so the next attempt will be more successful. >> the...

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