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couric: good evening, everyone. nearly 12 weeks after the deepwater horizon blew up in the gulf of mexico, the white house says we could be at a turning point for trying to get control of that runaway well. as people all over america kept their fingers crossed today, robots were putting a new cap in place. while it can t stop the leak, the hope is it will be able to funnel all the oil to containment ships. for now, the old cap is off and oil is gushing freely into the gulf and continuing to spread across the region. meanwhile, the interior department put out a less-stringent six-month moratorium on deep water drilling to replace the one struck down by the courts. mark strassmann is in port few hon, louisiana. mark, everything is ridingen this latest attempt to cap the well. fourchon. reporter: think of it this way, katie, every past b.p. fix was a gamble that failed. this time they have ripped off the old cap, the well is blasting full force into the gulf and b.p. i ....

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