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Newsroom" page" or to marthamccallum.com and, the twitter page, a lot of information on the mosque issue, in particular, we'll continue to follow that. bill: bill has a question... martha: yes, bill. bill: i have a question every day. and testing underway in the gulf as bp gets ready to finally -- did i say that? finally stop the blownout well, and, at the moment engineers are getting ready to pump heavy mud into the riser cap. hoping to plug the pipe from the top down. top kill procedure, will it work? can it solve all of this? kris gutierrez is live from louisiana, will it work, kris? is thi...

The casing and remember we talked about this yesterday? well, the steel sleeve that goes into the well, itself, well, when they went to go do that, put that sleeve in today, they found out, and here is the bottom of the new well right here, and they found out that the bottom of the new well had rocks in it. debris in the bottom, because they had not been drilling for many days because of bonnie. tropical storm bonnie, and they pulled everything out, but the sides of the well kind of collapsed in on itself, so that there is stuff down there, and they could not put the sleeve, or that casing in ...

Long awaited top kill procedure. a maneuver never tried before a mile be93 the sea. >> a mile beneath the sea is a difficult place to drill for oil. we must still meet the energy needs. what are the alternatives? when an oil spill occurs, we have the technology and know-how to immediately cap the spill. like the one that occurred tuesday off the louisiana coast. a barge collided with an abandoned well head in the bay releasing an unknown am of oil and gas into the gulf. don't worry. remember, shallow water will just cap it immediately and, oh, except it will take another 10 to 12 days to actua...

Would send that letter to him privately, and that once the coast guard has had a chance to process the information inside of it, they would then come out publicly to talk about what it says and how it may change the status. we know that the coast guard is looking for two things. one, for bp to speed up the process. they got some things in the pipeline that will help contain more oil, but they're coming at the end of june, into july, into august. the coast guard wants a faster timeline and they also want more of a backup plan, so when things go wrong, like the top kill procedure, there's a plan...

Conclusively settled. the oil industry in 2010 is proving conclusively day after every single freaking day that what they do is really not safe. they're routinely drilling at depths where they have no idea how to respond if anything goes wrong. they admit it now in word and in deed every single day. >> tomorrow bp plans to send down the containment dome to cover one of the two remaining leaks, but this has never been tried before at 5,000 feet under the sea. >> this rice university professor says this has never been tried in water so deep. >> i hope it works. it has not been used at that depth...