BP told to step up monitoring of well

BP began pressure tests on the well after choking it off on Thursday for the first time since the April 20 rig explosion that triggered the leak. Underwater robots scanned the sea floor for signs the undersea well was damaged.

"We've seen no negative evidence of any breaching there," said Kent Wells, BP's senior vice president of exploration and production.

The tests, which began Thursday afternoon and are expected to last up to 48 hours, showed the cap was building pressure in the well, meaning it was strong enough to contain the oil without leaking. But it was not rising fast enough.

"We have decided to move forward with another six-hour increment (of testing)," retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the U.S. government's point man on the spill, told reporters at a briefing on Friday afternoon.

Allen had said pressure above 7,500 pounds per square inch would show the well was intact, while pressure that lingered below 6,000 psi would signal damage.

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BP was set to continue reviewing testing procedures

he oil giant had expected the tests -- to check pressure in the well and determine if it can be sealed once and for all -- to get under way Tuesday afternoon.

But Tuesday night, BP announced that additional analysis of the well testing procedure was needed. The move followed a meeting with Energy Secretary Steven Chu and his team of advisers.

A source informed about BP operations told CNN's John King that, "There were some potential complications that might cause a delay -- some bad, some in the 'better to be safe than sorry' category."

CNN's David Mattingly, who accompanied the U.S. Coast Guard out to a site over the ruptured well Tuesday, said Wednesday a "small city of vessels" remains at the site and continues combating the sheen of oil in Gulf waters as smoke from burning gas and oil hovers on the horizon.

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Bandit nabbed after two years

Witnesses on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera recognized the 19-year-old dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" and called police, who captured him Sunday after a high-speed boat chase, Bahamas Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said at a celebratory news conference in Nassau, the capital.

Greenslade said shots were fired during the water chase but he did not say who fired them. He also said Harris-Moore was carrying a handgun that he tried to throw away.

Another senior police official, however, said police fired to disable the motor on the suspect's stolen boat, and that Harris-Moore threw his gun in the water. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case, also said that police recovered a laptop and a GPS locator from the suspect.

Police flew Harris-Moore in shackles to Nassau. True to his nickname, the teen with close-shorn hair was shoeless as he walked off the plane wearing short camouflage cargo pants, a short-sleeved shirt and a bulletproof vest.

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Disappointment to New York and Chicago

The vehicle was an hourlong ESPN special last night, which was unprecedented in American sports history and which was decried by many as an astonishing manifestation of egomania on the part of a young superstar who has basically conducted himself in a mature manner throughout his career. But James seemed to veer into a new realm during this recruiting process, culminating in this look-at-me declaration, which was in direct contrast to the low-key M.O. chosen by Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant, who announced his decision to sign a five-year contract extension via Twitter.

But this is 21st century America, and LeBron James is a classic product of his times. He is five years younger than ESPN itself. The network put many of his high school games at Akron’s St. Vincent-St. Mary High School on television, which many thought was crass. But it all seems natural and normal to him. There is little sense in exhibiting great moral outrage about the process. To paraphrase a certain football coach well-known in this area, it was what it was.

And now the Miami Heat are what they are, a bizarre collection of top-level players who will be surrounded by a lot of low-level, minimum-wage talent. LeBron James will be teamed up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, the former a player who is only slightly less gifted than James, and the latter a top-flight forward whose range of skills separates him from all but a few big men in the NBA. They will automatically become the latest so-called Big Three to terrorize the league.
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LeBron in your Diet

I’ve refused to do an obligatory post on LeBron every few days. I haven’t said a word during this media feeding frenzy because it’s all been 100% speculation. I don’t wallow in that. I wallow (if I wallow) in what is known – that which I can wrap my arms around and use as a basis to come to a conclusion about something.

I’m intrigued like everyone else about where the pieces will ultimately fit into the NBA landscape. But, to wonder and think and speculate and dream… seems to me to be a colossal waste of time where any drifter on the street’s opinion is just as valid as David Stern’s. That’s a world I want no part of!

Having said that, James is apparently going to announce his decision tomorrow (Thursday) on ESPN. Why it takes an hour to do so is beyond my comprehension unless he’s planning on selling advertising along with it. You can probably be more than confident that whoever he is endorsing, their products will have a very large presence.

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Stormy seas continued to hamper cleanup efforts

Based on the upper end of a range of government estimates, the spill passed the 140-million-gallon mark, surpassing the 1979-1980 Ixtoc I spill off Mexico.

While Hurricane Alex spared a direct hit on the gushing well 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, high swells kept BP from skimming or burning surface oil and halted the placement of new sections of boom.

Drillships continued to bore a relief well that is expected to plug the well in the next few weeks — slightly ahead of a mid-August target date - said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who commands the multipronged spill response.

"We're now amassing our forces to move back out once the weather allows us to get back on the water and skim," Allen told reporters at a Thursday briefing.

That could be sometime this weekend, depending on weather, he said.
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Secret agents living in the shadows of the suburbs

Kindergarten play dates versus the tap-tap-tap of radiograms. Housework versus the “brush pass” exchange of parcels. They were even described as having concealed their missions from their closest observers.

“There is no inkling at all,” said Assistant United States Attorney Michael Farbiarz, “that their children, who they live with, have any idea they are Russian agents.”

In the end, in court, the side of their lives described as cloaked in secrecy and deception mostly won out over parenthood, with two defendants denied bail. Another may be allowed to serve a kind of house arrest next week.

The fourth, who was granted bail, is the one the government concedes lived under her own name: Vicky Pelaez, a veteran columnist for El Diario La Prensa, a newspaper in New York. Her husband, Juan Jose Lazaro Sr., postponed his request for bail.

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