UPDATE: August 4: Top kill seems to have worked. At long last the gush is crushed!
I am suspending updates until BP ... and the Coast Guard ... give us information we can believe.
June 7: according to BP, cap is capturing about 10,000 barrrels a day.
June 3: Diamond-tipped saw got stuck so now resorting to a giant shears to cut the pipe.
June1: Now they are sawing through the damaged pipe in hopes of attaching a new containment vessel.
May 30: TOP KILL ABANDONED!
May 29: "Top Kill" not working according to huffingtonpost.com.
May 28: Optimism waning. BP officials willing to give it another 48 hours before declaring success/failure.
May 27: Flow seems to have lessened a little. Could their strategy be working? I'm not so sure.
