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Put in recently. rick leventhal is in new orleans for us now. what exactly are they looking for, rick, and what do they hope they can learn? >> reporter: well, jon, they're looking to see whether the temporary ceiling of that well, the static kill, actually turned out to be a permanent solution. they pumped cement and heavy drilling mud into the well from the top last week, they finished the job last week. it hasn't leaked since, so they're running pressure tests to see whether or not there is a solid seal down there. we expect to learn very soon whether they believe it is solid. thad allen, t...

You have been protecting it saying you are against further developing and further drilling down there. let me ask you a question. learning now today luckily for us all the gulf is not going to get worse, million barrels out there that's not going to go away but it's not as bad as we thought it would be. if they drill down or pumped it down into that well first off, the day after the spill, if they had done it before the spill there wouldn't have been a spill. now it's proven that technology would have worked. it was a management it decision that caused this. they had had the technology in plac...

He converted to islam, went over to somalia and allegedly has become a propogandist for al shabab recruiting from the u.s. to fight. two people were arrested in minnesota, women. the government alleges they were trying to raise money for al shabab, sometimes in face-to-face meetings but also through teleconferences. the government says that these women sometimes misled their donors telling them the money would be used to help the poor rather than to fund al shabab. >> jeanne meserve in washington this morning, thanks. now to the latest developments in the gulf of mexico and the words that mi...

If they pumped it down into that well first off, the day after think, if they had done it before the spill there won't have been a spill. now it's proven that technology would have worked. it was a management it decision that caused this. they had had the technology in place and used drilling instead of sea water which my brother told me they went with sea water instead of drilling mud, should there be a criminal probe of bp for its decision to save money by dumping 5 billion gallons of oil into the gulf? >> no question about it. this is the single largest environmental catastrophe in the hist...

Back? some of them have short reproductive cycles and some of them have long reproductive cycles, and it may be decades before we get a complete picture of what this spill did to this very rich marine life here in the gulf of mexico. >> not only what it did to the marine life, but also the legal implications and the legal liability for bp in terms of taking care of these people and making the fisheries and the people who make their living from the fisheries whole. it is an incredible problem. one more question, anne, we have heard that thad allen has authorized bp to cement the oil, and it is ...