Top kill effort fails to control oil spill...

On the topic of the oil spill, it's being reported by a variety of media sources, including the Washington Post that BP's plan for a "top kill" did not work to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. They are still struggling to find a way that will work to stop the flow of the oil.

BP's three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed. The attempted "top kill" of the well was abandoned late Saturday afternoon, leaving the huge Macondo field deep beneath the sea floor once again free to pump at least half a million gallons of crude a day into the gulf.

"I can say we tried. But what I can also say is this scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing," BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said in a late-day news conference.