Bp: Cap Gets Some Gulf Oil, Crude Still Spews

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Fri, 06/04/2010 - 5:46am

BP reported some oil was flowing up a pipe Friday from a cap it wrestled onto its broken Gulf of Mexico well but crude still spewed and it was ...

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