we will have oil leaking from this well until august when the relief wells will be finished. the new plan entails complex underwater surgery. first slicing off the broken pipe that once rose to the surface, which is now bent like a straw over the crippled blowout preventor. once they hack through the 21- inch thick pipeline, engineers guiding deep see robots will carefully lower a cap over the gushing well. officials say this will fit more tightly than the huge containment dome and the smaller top hat, both of which failed. this latest dome would pump the oil 5000 feet up to a waiting rig. as this situation drags on, fatigue is setting in. the people who work on controlling this well by now are very tired. they re exhausted, and psychologically, and in fact, because of it, they may be prone to making more errors. reporter: meanwhile the people of new orleans let b.p. know exactly how they feel about the spill. it s another example of how we ve been let down by what
good moon monday morning. how was your 4th of july? pretty good, nice and comfortably cool. no complaints from the weather department. this is nice weather we re having. fantastic stuff. no one s complaining. we have a lot to talk about today. if you look beyond the cameras there are three guys in ties. so we ve got scott donahue. one is dale, and we re going to talk about the financial future. the recession has been a story about a year. how much has things changed and what does this mean for you, does it change the plans for retirement forever? scott donahue is also here, maybe not wearing a tie. he s not a tie kind of guy. usually comes in his boat shoes. he s here to talk about everything in the automotive industry. obviously the big story, gm. speaking about ties, we ve got to work on that. me wearing one? i think you could pull it off. no. that s reserved for the fellows. a quick look at the forecast on this monday morning, coming off a great weeke