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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 last 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 reinserted this morning and as we speak, there is oil going into the ...

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...

The oil up to a tanker. this increasing done essentially roboticly 5,000 feet down. it's like playing a very high-tech video game with billions of dollars at stake. just a short time a bp official explained more precisely what wept wrong with the first attempt. >> this tool sits in a metal frame so that the drill pipe lowered from the drill ship can connect to it. when they attempted to connect to it the frame shifted so they were unable to make that connection. what they had to do is bring the frame and tool back to the surface and reorient it so the next attempt would be more successful. >> ...

Crisis to shut down a legitimate industry. well, everyone, hello again. thank you for being with us. as we do every weekend for this half hour, 9:00 eastern time, 6:00 pacific, we spent this hour digging a little deeper into a story, something making the headlines and we take a look at an issue that affects you. today that issue which affects us all no matter where you live in the u.s., that massive oil spill in the gulf. we want to tart by giving you the very latest developments on this story. and it's going to be a weekend of developments. first, a four-story containment dome has reached t...

Oil from the bp oil spill reached shore today. two weeks after the well explosion in the gulf of mexico, the oil washed up on the chandeleur islands, crews were there to see and assess the damage. meanwhile at the site of the massive leak where hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude continue to gush into the gulf every day, efforts to siphon, plug and disperse the oil continue. a four-story 98-ton steel box arrived at the ruptured well today. engineers and welders worked day and night for a week on the structure they hope will capture the oil and divert it to a ship above the surface. even ...