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You see at the bottom, this is a very simple manual process. you see just people leaning over the edges of boats, doing what they can by hand. in this case, they're putting lights in this boom so boats will see it at night. it's a startlingly slow process especially when you consider that there are hundreds of miles now of damaged coastline. >> a lot of those shrimpers now coming back from a day's work for b.p. where they make about $300 a day or about 1/5 of what they could make on a good night shrimping. shepard? >> we're told they're now exploring yet another new option in an attempt to kil...

Pounds per square inch, climbing slightly. that's a little lower than they expected. they wonder, well, are there leaks anywhere? they did find some anomalies, some seepage in spots. they also found some methane bubbles but they don't think those are a concern or particularly from the leak in the well either. they think the reservoir has been depleted somewhat with oil the oil that's been leak into the gulf. that's certainly an option. they're continuing these tests. when or if they're going to pull the trigger, they haven't said that. they just said in the coming days a static kill procedure ...

Day 92 of the oil spill disaster in the gulf of mexico, actually the third month, month three begins today. we are tracking the oil slick from the sea and from the air. but first let me bring you up to speed with what is going on. as you know, the oil well remains capped while they test the pressure under the earth. i'm going to show it to you in here. this is on an medication of what used to happen, oil flowing, they put this new cap on to the we will head, and as a result of that, there is no more oil coming out. they continue to test the pressure in that well. if the pressure continues to i...

U.s. government too dependent on outsiders to do that work? dana priest of the "washington post" will join us later this hour about her two-year-long investigation. a cnn exclusive. correspondent deborah feyerick talks with the developer after controversial islamic center that some want to build just two blocks from the world trade center site. >> why here? why so close? why? >> his answer ahead this hour. bp officials think that mud may deliver us a miracle in the gulf of mexico. it is a new operation they're calling static kill. >> we've reached day 92 of this disaster. take a look, one ...

Be at odds over whether to leave that well capped, as bp wants to do, or allow some oil to seep out and be siphoned to ships in the gulf. bp says hooking up that containment system would leave oil once again spewing freely into the gulf for three days. >> here we find ourselves at a point which we would hope would be the end of this opera. but instead, we have this nagging doubt that something very serious might be wrong. >> reporter: bp has another idea. >> in terms of the static kill, this is very much in its infancy. this is not something that we have approved to do. >> reporter: the latest...