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days. now obviously this is good and long-anticipated news, but three things. for this i'm going to need the giant numbers we've had in storage for a while. you ready? three things. one, two, three. first, giant number, no one knows how long this will last. this is the first time the oil has been stopped from leaking into the ocean. that doesn't mean this new cap is a done deal forever. engineers will monitor the well for up to 48 hours to see if the cap can handle all the oil. that's one. we are still in a waiting game here. number two. the idea with this cap is that they can use it...

that doesn't mean this new cap is a done deal forever. engineers will monitor the well for up to 48 hours to see if the cap can actually handle all of the oil without springing a leak. so that's one. we are still in a waiting game here. number two. the idea with this cap is that they can use it to funnel all the oil. not just some of it but all of it to a ship on the surface. if a hurricane comes along, though, any such ship will have to head to shore. what happens then? do we go back to square one? number three. one of the things this cap means if it can capture all the oil is that ...

up to 100 times worse than bp confessed initially. the latest on the spill -- the numbers and the damage at the top of the show. rahm emanuel once famously said you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. why doesn't the president seize this moment, make this disaster his environmental 9/11 and push through an energy bill that forces this country to embrace green technology? plus the curious case of alvin greene. he won south carolina's democratic senate primary despite having no campaign structure, no campaign really, no website, no fund-raising, no ads and apparently no clu...

hello there, everybody. from the cnn center, this is ""cnn saturday." a saturday but it's busy weekend on capitol hill. hello to you all. i'm. thej. holmes. >> i'm abbie boudreau. it's getting down to the final hours before the vote and several house democrats are still trying to decide if they'll vote for or against the health care reform bill. we'll look at what's in the bill, how much it will cost and who's voting for it. the red river is about to crest. reynolds wolf is there for us in moorhead, minnesota. reynoldings, seems like you do this story, what, i don't know, every yea...

this is a special labor day edition of state of the union. >> it is a big concern here at the state fair, and at workplaces and schools across america. how big is the h1n1 risk, and is the government ready? >> i don't want anybody to be alarmed, but i do want everybody to be prepared. plus, the health care flash pointses at the fair grounds and back at washington as the president prepares for a high stakes address to a joint session of congress. time for a deal or more partisan gridlock? we put your questions to key voices, democratic senators. minnesota's republican governor and the...