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A BP official said oil stopped flowing from a well in the Gulf of Mexico at 225 pm today as testing started on a cap over the leak.
BP said its initial test of a new cap on the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico has successfully plugged the leak Thursday stopping the flow of oil into the water for the first time since April.
When people reckon of the animals affected by the oil spill tragic images of crudecoated sea turtles and pelicans come to mind.
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NEW ORLEANS BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded then started a tense 48 hours of watching to see whether the cappedoff well. His use of physical props and laymans language helps translate the often complicated efforts stem the oil gushing into the Gulf.
One thing highpressure hoses cant eliminate is the psychological trauma says an anthropologist who studied effects of Exxon Valdez spill. The unseen animal victims of the oil spill are the hundreds of Gulf pets that are overflowing area animal.
NEW ORLEANS Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast marking a sharp and sudden escalation in wildlife harmed by BPs Gulf of Mexico.
The first group of sea turtles that are part of a sweeping effort to save threatened and endangered hatchlings from death in the oily Gulf of Mexico have been released into the Atlantic Ocean.
The longer the test goes the more promising the results are likely to be. Its the first time oil has not leaked from the well since April.
CNN turns to Bill Nye the Science Guy to help clarify how BPs new containment cap is supposed to work. Fiftysix endangered Kemps ridley turtles.
