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(voice 2) they're pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got 'em. (voice 3) great exercise guys. let's run it again. let's check your top stories now here on cnn. day 87 of the gulf of mexico oil disaster. bp placed the leaking pipe and hopes to resume an important well test today -- they replaced a leaking pipe today. the integrity test is intended to determine the well's pressure to see if a new container cap can stop the flow of oil. the product safety commissions that approved new mandatory design features for

Mile-long tube into the leaking pipe today. the tube became dislodged but crews apparently reinserted it. cnn's david mattingly joins us from new orleans with more on this effort. david. >> reporter: after more than a week of failures, bp today finally announcing some success in stemming the flow of oil into the gulf of mexico. as you described, that mile-long pipe, the end of it has been inserted into that leaking pipe at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. and they are reporting they had some success when they tested this in pumping that oil up to a containment vessel at the surface. during th...