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Tube insertion into the riser, and that's the pipe that is leaking, was successful, that bp had successfully been able to insert the tube into the leaking riser and that oil, as well as gas, entered into that tube and were on their way to the surface. according to this report from reuters, only natural gas apparently made it to the surface. it was burned off. the oil did not make it to the surface. there is now another report, this one coming from npr, that says this operation had a setback, another setback after two robotic sub marines crashed into one another, damaging the tube and/or the pi...

Containment vessel. if that doesn't work, then we're going to go back to that small containment dome that they created. that's on the ocean floor. that's ready to go in case this tube doesn't work. but that's what they're going with right now. and they think, if they're going to see some success from it, they will know sometime tonight. >> so, david, listen, thad allen came out a short time ago and gave some information. it appears that some of his information was not updated. is there some problem with him get that information? is there an issue here? >> reporter: we're trying to get to the b...