What's going on: US government tells BP to continue drilling relief well

Also, Sean O'Keefe's condition improves as investigation continues, and Brewerton woman chosen to sing duet with Susan Boyle.

From The New York Times:

Although tests of BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico appear to show that it is fully sealed, the government said Friday that work on a relief well will continue to complete the job of permanently plugging the gusher.
“The relief well will be finished,” Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who leads the spill response, said at a press briefing in Schriever, La. But he said BP and government scientists were still studying the test results to determine the precise procedures to be followed in completing the relief well.

» Read the story: Government Orders Relief Well to Be Completed to Ensure That Spill Is Stopped
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