Jul 17 Oil Well Testing to Continue for Additional 24 Hours By Maureen Hoch After two days of waiting and watching as a containment cap kept new oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since a spill disaster began, officials decided Saturday to extend a test on BP's… Continue reading
Jul 16 For Fishermen on Louisiana’s Coast, Guarded Optimism on an Oil Fix By Tom Bearden Out-of-work fishermen do maintenance on their boats at the Delta Marina in Empire, La. "At least we're taking more oil out of the Gulf than is going in," says Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish. Cautiously optimistic. Pleased, but guarded. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed By Travis Daub In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a… Continue reading
Jul 16 Concerned About iPhone 4 ‘Death Grip?’ Jobs: Have a Free Bumper Responding to weeks of complaints about reception issues with Apple's popular iPhone 4, CEO Steve Jobs mounted a defense at a Friday news conference, announcing that customers will be able to get a free rubber case to… Continue reading
Jul 16 The Oil Cap Is Holding — Now What? By Chris Amico For now, at least, there is no oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. That could last until Saturday, if BP carries out its well integrity test for a full 48 hours. Engineers are checking pressure inside the well… Continue reading
Jul 16 Gwen’s Take: Entering the ‘Twitterverse’ By Gwen Ifill You see, that headline is what I've always hated about Twitter. It's way too cute. But, alas, I have been lured in. My first week on Twitter has been enlightening, funny and a little creepy. You have to understand… Continue reading
Jul 16 BP Continues to Monitor Cap; Encouraged by Early Results By Tom LeGro Updated 5:33 p.m. ET The results of pressure tests on the shut-in oil well have not been ideal over the past 24 hours, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday afternoon -- but the well will remain closed… Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Containment Cap Holds Steady as Work on Relief Wells Continues With the new oil well containment cap in place for the past 24 hours and no new signs of oil leaking into the Gulf, President Obama called the news hopeful but reaffirmed the need for a permanent solution. Tom Bearden… Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch Oil Gusher Halted At Least for Now: ‘Something Went Right’ For the first time since April, the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico stopped -- at least temporarily -- Thursday after BP sealed a containment cap during the start of pressure tests on the device. Joel Achenbach of… Continue watching