billion with a b, we ve got this honore got this high for sola alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn welcome, till the interject after this hour, some eye-popping numbers from a watchdog group keeping tabs on the us supreme court, suggesting justice clarence thomas received $2 million in gifts for more than 100 entities, 2 million. justice thomas, not the only one racking up the numbers in this study plus the biden-harris campaign, making a play for anti-trump republicans such as the ones who keep turning out for nikki haley and republican primaries. republican governor glenn youngkin s, virginia will be here on the lead and we ll talk about that in much more. plus new murder charges for the man accused of being the gilgo beach serial killer. the new evidence on a laptop that prosecutors say was his blueprint for serial killing. we start this hour with the 2024. 2024 leave. let s play the music election dam up. one we could go today. donald trump was convicted of 34 f
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protects you from a lot of that honore all west work more clean this situation with wolf blitzer next, one, cnn we re going out of this world for our last leads is successful test of spacex s starship. the world s most powerful rocket blasted often texas this morning, the booster splash down as planned in the gulf of mexico, firing its engines and making the water fly after a fiery re-entered the spacecraft s splashdown down. in the indian ocean. the two crew members of boeing s starliner spacecraft. meanwhile dock with the international space station. this afternoon after engineers solve some problems with the spacecraft thrusters the astronauts will stay for about a week that will give engineers on earth time to analyze the frehse problems and the implications of several helium leaks, which the crew delta with by closing valves, then news continues. now on cnn
are. now, they can do this without releasing more oil to the surface if this test is successful. because the concern is that if you have to use the containment vessels and there is bad weather or tropical storm or hurricane, those ships have the leave, right? yes shg, the ships would hav leave, but they could shut the valves again and stop the oil flow when the ships are gone. so essentially they have control of the well at this point in time, and it is still yet to be seen whether or not they will continue to have control. we don t know if there are significant leaks deep in the well, and there is a couple of weak points at 9,000 feet and one at 17,000 feet that they might be particularly interested in looking at and watching in the seismic. but if this all holds up, and they are able to start producing it, they will have control of the well, and they will be able to produce when they want and stop when they want, and we are not going to see much more oil in the gulf of mexico. we
long time. let s hope and pray that it works. doug suttles is the coo, the chief operating officer, of bp. good luck. we taped that interview earlier with mr. suttles. all right. let s dig deeper right now and further appreciate the time line of what has happened today a and cnn s jessica yellin is standing by with more on this part of the story. jessica? well, wolf, the oil flow as you remort and doug suttles explains has been shut down in a number of steps, be i we wantut show you the pictures on each step. they cut off the flow, and then started to cut off the valves. this is the first picture at 11:30 a.m. eastern time. this is when they closed the kill line. but more to go. the next picture is 1:30 p.m. eastern time when they closed the choke line, that last valve, and bp said in a tweet at this time, quote, we did it a half turn at a time so that we