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Control the well itself. we have done nothing to improve the primary control device which is the blow out preventer. we still have that almost 50% failure rate that you and i have talked about before in deep water. if something does go wrong, there's a chance the well will lose control. there's a couple of well containment organizations that you mentioned in your introduction that is in place. the thing that everyone ignores is the fact that there's a massive drilling rig that sits above these wells in 5 or 10,000 feet of pipe that goes from the rig to the ocean floor. that has to go somewhere...

Men and women wearing them by ter in the year. chris lauren, cnn, the pentagon. if your choice did not win or you want to check out the runners up, we'll have links to them on my page. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with randy kai in for ali velshi. hey, randi? it plunged the gulf coast once more in to disaster. louisiana governor bobby jindal marks the first anniversary of the bp oil spill late they are hour. it started on this date in 2010 with the loss of 11 lives and ended 85 days later. as the nation looks back, no one can sate's completely over. some 200 gallons of oil entered th...

Down that blown out well tomorrow. that procedure follows the success of static kill which involves forcing down the leaking crude with mud. the cement should permanently seal the well head. work continues on that relief well which will cut off the oil below the sea floor. that project might be completed within the next two weeks. >> unexpected detour today for an american airlines flight from new york's jfk to los angeles. the plane was diverted to albuquerque, new mexico after a y odor detected in the cabin. some say they saw a man striking a match. he's in custody being questioned many inve...

>> greta: next coach dungy but first ainsley earhart with our other headlines. >> reporter: progress in the gulf operation static kill proceeds without a hitch. at this hour engineers are pumping thick mud into the broken well head in the hopes of permanently plugging that gusher. the operation could take days. officials say they are confident it will did the job. at the same time work continues on the relief well expected to be completed by mid august. >> investigators in manchester, connecticut piecing together an event which triggered today's massacre at a beer warehouse many one of the two...

The microbes that live in the ocean water and a lot of people wondering, time magazine asking the simple question, where has all the oil gone. and are the dispersants responsible for it? that is to say down by the well head when it was exposing bp was pumping dispersants down as the water was gushing out. has that cleared some of the oil off the surface and are we seeing other long-term effects. >> if you think it's magic that they're not there anymore, it could actually just be something very dangerous that's made it invisible to us. that's one theory about the dispersants and again, they tri...