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To 15 stations have been closed by demonstrators who tripped safety switches and cut off power at the pumps. green peace claims the people i am memberized nearly 50 service stations. bp says it is trying to get all of them back up and running as soon as possible. developing story this morning. bp's ceo tony hayward, famously said he wanted his life back, is getting his wish. the company announce thing morning he will step down from his post on october 1st and right now it looks like hayward will stay with bp heading up a new oil and gas venture in russia. hayward will eventually be replaced ...

We're more than three months into the gulf oil disaster and bp is still trying to plug the ruptured well. that and the clean-up delayed just a bit because of stormy seas, our reynolds wolf is tracking it all from the coast. >> i'm covering this from grand isle, louisiana, where remnants of bonnie continue to move inland and boats from the deepwater horizon continue their journey out to sea. the one of the key vessels into the drilling operation not relief well to stop it altogether. it won't be one of those situations where they'll be able to resume work immediately. they've go a a little set-...

>> all right thank goodness it wasn't. bonnie schneider, thanks so much. appreciate that. all right the threat from tropical depression bonnie force said the evacuation of several oil cleanup vessels in the gulf and that includes some of the big ones at the deepwater horizon site but tropical depression bonnie has since faded, that's good news. david mattingly is live in st. tamany parish right now. what's the latest movement on some of those ships. >> reporter: well, fortunately because this storm isn't what they thought it would be, some those ships are now on their way back in. they expec...

Areas that it's actually trying to protect. these booms could do a lot of damage on their own in a storm surge. so that's part of what they are doing. they are also looking. they are going to be making a decision a little bit later today if they should start disconnecting that drilling operation that's drilling the relief well for the bp well. that decision coming soon as well. everything in a stage of flux right now watching to see what happens with that storm. wolf? >> all right. we're going to watch it closely. chad myers will be joining us later for a more details forecast because the rami...

Stack cap ready to go weeks ago? >> great question. they certainly should have, could have, and may have put flow rate monitors on this thing. for all we know, they did and they haven't told us. i'm hearing some more accurate figures coming out right now but i'm not certain. they certainly could have. on the second part of your question, that's the big one. they certainly should have had this stacking cap designed not just weeks ago but even before they were doing the drilling operation in the first place. they shouldn't have been out there drilling nor should any of the deep water offshore ri...