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Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Island. A slide at one of the major roads across the island and some voluntary evacuations in hilon. This particular location, we had hilo. In this particular location, we had six or seven hours of rain dumping down. Crickets. The rain has stopped. The wind. There is almost none now. We are waiting for the next band if it comes from the hurricane. Many other islands of hawaii remain under Hurricane Warning right now. The big question is honolulu and oahu. The island with honolulu county. Population is 400,000. How close will la...

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That apparently could take between five days and a few weeks and then your other option that they've been talking about is the static kill shooting mud into the existing cap, the cap that's holding the oil in place. >> right. >> would you risk that? >> i don't think so. i think the static kill will put more pressure down the well bore. everybody knows that. and it could indeed compromise the integrity of the existing well bore which is already probably compromised. that's exactly what happened with the initial top kill attempt. the safest thing to do is open things back up, connect it to surfa...

>> sure, keith. >> explain if you would why bp says it wants to cut off all the collection on the surface. >> well, this is a little like watching the first lunar landing. there's a lot of excitement and a lot of anxiety about what could go wrong, certainly. we'll know shortly whether this was a smart idea to try this or a spectacular mistake. one of the decisions they'll have to make is whether or not to leave all the valves shut and shut in the well or whether or not to go ahead and leave them open and pump the oil up to surface vessels. that decision is going to be made based apparently on ...

Tonight. >> sure, keith. >> explain if you would why bp says it wants to cut off all the collection on the surface. >> well, this is a little like watching the first lunar landing. there's a lot of excitement and a lot of anxiety about what could go wrong, certainly. we'll know shortly whether this was a smart idea to try this or a spectacular mistake. one of the decisions they'll have to make is whether to leave all the valves shut and shut in the well or whether or not to go ahead and leave them open and pump the oil up to the surface vessels. that decision is going to be made based apparent...