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15 minutes past the hour. welcome back to the most news in the morning. it is day 66 of the oil disaster in the gulf. and here are all the latest developments for you. the cap is back on the busted well this morning. again collecting oil. another major setback in the effort to con taint leto contai. a robot subran into it yesterday leaving almost nothing to stop the 60,000 barrel as a gushing out. >> the obama administration asked an appeals court to keep the government's six-month moratorium an deep water drilling in place after a judge struck it down earlier this week. >> a painful sight alo...

Changes, i'm sure. a lot of procedural changes. everybody will look at drilling these wells and doing these operations totally different. >> reporter: one difference? there is now an rov in the water 24/7 keeping careful watch over the relief well's blowout preventer. james lusk is the pilot. he takes his professional assignment personally. >> we all live by the coast. and this here could hopefully stop it, sir. >> reporter: all the containment domes and the top cap, what you see behind me on the enterprise is probably as good as it will get until the month of august, because the last best cha...

Think it will pass. what are you hearing? >> right now, mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer, the two key players to end this standoff are, in fact, meeting. they are trying to end this two-day shutdown. what they are discussing i'm told is a proposal that was floated by a bipartisan group of senators. a way out of this shutdown, what it entails is essentially support for a short-term stop cap measured to open up the government for up to three weeks or so, as well as some commitment to move on a range of issues, including dealing with immigration, dealing with the daca issue, as well as things li...

Meanwhile beeks to -- reaction to bp's new containment scheme and complaints that the numbers don't add up. trace gallagher is live on the coast of venice, louisiana, bp is saying they are dramatically increasing the amount of oil they can cap -- capture as of today. the details are what, trace? >> reporter: i can tell you, i was pretty good in math in high school and the numbers are baffling me a little bit. remember the biggest estimate of oil gushing out of that well into the gulf is about 40,000 barrels a day, and now bp is telling us by the end of june, they'll be able to capture 50,000 b...