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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...

And we learned a short time ago that the utah supreme court, we learned that warren jeffs, his two quakeses of convictions of rape as an accomplice has been overturned by the supreme court. so the very real prospect that warren jeffs to be released from prison at some point here. it's a development we'll follow here in the cnn "newsroom." 99 days into the gulf oil disaster, and tony hayward says it is not only bp's fault. in a web cast, he says the disaster represents an industry-wide failure and urges safety measures to be reevaluated. 11 workers died when the rig exploded in april. efforts...

Call now and mention id alert. or visit lifelock.com. ♪ megyn: 2:35 in the east, and we are checking our top stories for you right now. president obama urging congress to pass a new small business initiative saying it will kick start the economy and create new jobs. and the gulf coast -- and the coast guard battling a new oil leak on a waterway in louisiana. a tow boat apparently struck a well head triggering that leak. therewell, a national immigratin crackdown is getting some attention today as we get reports that the immigration and custom folks are pushing to expand this program which is...

Wind gust would bring. they ordered evacuations, they have been pulling up pipe and other things that they have out there, moving them out of harm's way, you can see the venice marina here behind me is full of boats now getting out of the path of bonnie, which by the way is headed this way, should be here this time tomorrow. >> and when do they anticipate that they'll be able to start moving back into location, what will the total delay be? >> reporter: they say after the storm passes, they can get some of the vessels back out there within 48 hours. the first ones to come back on will be the o...

Operations we aren't getting realtime information, or realtime explanations. when nasa launches a space shuttle, there's an announcer explaining what is happening second by second. when bp launches an operation, silence. we have a right to know. about three weeks ago, bp sounded like they were going to change. bob dudley the guy who replaced tony hayward said this -- >> we have had a camera there looking at the oil spill that's coming out of the well from the beginning. they're done with -- there's about 14 robots down there, sometimes they move off, there's others in place. we've had well ope...