and best mibnds working on this in the united states. i feel confident it won t be a thad allen decision but a whole government decision in the best interest of the country. reporter: allen describes the atmosphere inside the bp command center where hundreds of people have been working around the clock. when that cap got put into place and it was successful, what was the atmosphere like? cheers? the video room where all this takes place is very much like a war room except everybody is a little bit more informally dressed. it is called the hive. it is actually fairy quiet. a lot of people are talking, there is a lot of radio communications, they re linking with the operators actually on scene. reporter: allen says no one stood up and cheered but there was a huge sense of optimism and relief. we got a sense of the tension in that room called the hive where the remotely operated vehicles are controlled during a recent visit to bp s command center. roger that. roger that. rep
survived four days under the rubble. he s had a series of operations, now he s seeing his three sisters for the first time in two-and-a-half months. phone service, of course, working between the u.s. and haiti, but now for the first time these families seeing each other, some real joy in that video room. these machines often used in boardrooms and hospitals, but now the miami haitian community with a number of charities trying to make it work here for those families as well. as far as the situation on the ground in haiti, some dire straits there as well. schools and sewage still not working, most people living in tents and fields, more than one million strong and, of course, it s a race against time to try to get more solid structures up before the heavy summer rains. gregg, back to you. gregg: steve, thanks. jane: at this moment the shuttle discovery is hurtling towards the international space station at 25 times the speed of sound, and the crew is breaking another