Originally Posted by Adraco

You must be behind the news flow. That was hours ago. And there has been different statements during the day. From an Admiral of the Coast Guard, from an un-named BP expert who's out there trying to fix it and Hayward has been out and about in the media too. They said it looked promising to 60-70%, then that they had two other methods they wanted to try should "top kill" not go well.

But last word for tonight is that the will continue to work and try top kill and then evaluate the method tomorrow, Sunday. Since it's never been tried at that depth before, there are many factors which are to uncertain at this time.