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officials say workers were finally able to insert a mile long tube and begin siphoning oil from the busted well to the tanker on the surface. it is still only a partial flicks that could slow the leak but it won't actually stop it. david lee miller is in venice, louisiana. >> for the first time in weeks bp had good news but oil continues to bush -- gush into the gulf. insertion of the tube into the leaking ty pipe is successfully siphoning off some of the oil but won't say how much. add add complication a second but smaller lake has not been addressed. efforts are underway to complet...

environmental disaster unfolding in the gulf of mexico, the president is doing what others have after other disasters like three-mile island and the shuttle "challenger" explosion. he is forming a presidential commission to investigate it. meantime, the spill grew larger today. it does every day. bp says they are grabbing some of the oil at the well head with a mile-long vacuum tube. as that work goes on everyone is watching and worrying about the current grabbing this slick and taking it around florida and on up the east coast. we begin our reporting here tonight with nbc's mark pot...

>> his name is ken abbott and he came forward or he was hired in august, 2008. he was hired to manage the document for the atlantis platform. when he discovered there were such great document deficiencies he went to management, he worked with them to try to correct the problem, and he was faced with consultant resistance. in early 2009 his contract was ended and he went forward to the department of the interior minute merle management the agency charged with regulating offshore platforms. he also brought forward these allegations to bp's independent om budsman's office. at that point in time t...