different from the top kill they tried once before. it is different, because this time, there is a cap, if i can show you one of my crude renderings here on this draw/erase board. they have the cap on top of the ruptured well. that s the difference. before the top kill, there was no cap and so they re trying to force the heavy fluid and mud into the rupture well without any kind of containment. that s different this time around with the static kill. and bp just wrapped up a technical briefing just a few moments ago, randy, where they talked about a test that we haven t heard a whole lot about, called the injectivity test. what they re going to be doing is checking to see whether or not they can force the oil in the ruptured well back into the reservo reservoir. what they re going to do is start pumping in that mud right into that containment cap, down into the containment cap and into the ruptured well. and if that process goes well, they re going to be taking pressure readings durin
we saw this. mount holly, new jersey, over four inches. wilmington over 3.5 inches. tomahawk, 3.33 and lancaster, pennsylvania, 3.25 inches. the good news, we re not seeing an excessive drought in many spots. we re seeing a fair amount of water being dumped in the afternoon and summer thunderstorms, watering the grass. thank you, rob marciano. appreciate it. day 87 of the gulf of mexico oil crisis. equipment that bp was using to help stop the oil gushing into the water from a rupture well, it is leaking. that is, of course, making an immediate stop to the crucial testing that had gotten under way. a short time ago the oil company announced it is work around the problem and hopes to resume testing sometime this afternoon. the number of americans filing for first-time jobless claims last week dropped to the lowest level in nearly two
beach. rupture well, containment cap in place again. siphoning oil to a ship on the surface. the underwater gusher was shooting out full throttle most of yesterday after an accident with an undersea robot. cnn s chris lawrence is covering the story. walk us through what happened. reporter: kyra, right about this time yesterday, some of the officials noticed that sort of a burp in the system and were afraid some oil or gas had gotten into that. what they did was took the containment cap off and started to examine it and then it took about 11 hours for them to finally check that out and then reposition the cap. nobody s going to forget the images of that oil gushing into the gulf. just the day before this happened, that containment cap captured more oil than it had at any other time before.