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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 ...

Going to be able to siphon off and prevent from going into the environment. that's been the full focus of this operation, is to stem the flow of oil not water. and at this point, bp can't say exactly how much they're going to succeed at doing that. >> can you answer this next question, where do we go from here, what's next in this process, david? >> what's next, now that they've tak taken this step to stem the floesh flow, they have to stop the flow. they're looking at injecting a substance called kill mud. it's not organic mud like you would find outside. this is a solution that they use in t...

We've asked some very pointed questions about what sort of success they're going to have with this and they're not able to answer that yet, because the system is so new. every step has been an experiment and they're waiting to find out perhaps another 24 hours before they know just how much oil they're going to collect with this. >> all right. they're waiting for another 24 hours, but then what happens beyond this? what's next? >> reporter: this is just the first step. they wanted to stem the flow of oil into the gulf of mexico. they never said they'd be able to stop it with this tube, and the...

They're going to be able to collect with this process. we've asked some very pointed questions about what sort of success they're going to have with this and they're not able to answer that yet, because the system is so new. every step has been an experiment and they're waiting to find out perhaps another 24 hours before they know just how much oil they're going to collect with this. >> all right. they're waiting for another 24 hours, but then what happens beyond this? what's next? >> reporter: this is just the first step. they wanted to stem the flow of oil into the gulf of mexico. they never...

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