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in the gulf, on this day 83 of the oil spill. b.p. says it hopes to completely cap the gushing well by mid-week, but the company is not making any guarantees. here s the latest: a navy blimp has begun to look for oil and distressed wildlife in the gulf. oil continues to flow tonight as b.p. crews work on the new containment system, and the obama administration says it is optimistic that new system will work. mark strassmann has the latest this evening from grand isle, louisiana. mark, good evening. reporter: good evening, russ. b.p. is now staying by wednesday its new cap could stop this spill, a seal so tight not one drop of oil would escape. but for now every new drop is gushing into the gulf. now this is a runaway well. b.p. s gusher, its cap torn off, hemorrhaged oil for a second day and won t stop until engineers bolt on a new 75-ton cap to seal the broken well. we should anticipate that this whole process will take another three to five, six days. reporter: b.p. h
the oil spill. b.p. says it hopes to completely cap the gushing well by mid-week, but the company is not making any guarantees. here s the latest: a navy blimp has begun to look for oil and distressed wildlife in the gulf. oil continues to flow tonight as b.p. crews work on the new containment system, and the obama administration says it is optimistic that new system will work. mark strassmann has the latest this evening from grand isle, louisiana. mark, good evening. reporter: good evening, russ. b.p. is now staying by wednesday its new cap could stop this spill, a seal so tight not one drop of oil would escape. but for now every new drop is gushing into the gulf. now this is a runaway well. b.p. s gusher, its cap torn off, hemorrhaged oil for a second day and won t stop until engineers bolt on a new 75-ton cap to seal the broken well. we should anticipate that this whole process will take another three to five, six days. reporter: b.p. hopes this nearby containment sh