Mile-long tube sucks oil from Gulf well

BP engineers finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a mile-long tube to funnel it into a tanker after more than three weeks of failures.

Millions of gallons of crude are already in the water however, and researchers said the black ooze may have entered a major current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and around to the East Coast.