TODAY, THURSDAY: Live BP Interview, and YOU Can Participate

Today, Thursday, July 1, is your chance to ask BP questions about oil spill situation.

Using Google Moderator on youtube.com/citizentube, submit questions and vote the best ones to the top. Then join live interview at 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT on CitizenTube. Portions of the interview will also be aired Thursday evening on the PBS NewsHour and available on YouTube.

This is a great chance for people — both students and our parents — to participate in a current event and stay more informed and have our voices heard. What's your view?

You can read Julian F.'s previous article about the BP oil spill.

BP's Oil Disaster, an Update

On April 20th, BP's oil rig exploded and killed 11 of the workers and broke a pipe 5,000 feet under the water, which is letting out at most 19,000 barrels of oil per day. This disaster is far over double of the barrels dumped than the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989, which was off of the coast of Alaska and spilled about 250,000 barrels of oil.

People are saying that this is the worst disaster in U.S. history. The oil, is now moved up to coasts and marshes of Louisiana and is having a huge effect on the wildlife down there and the animals in the ocean. And they think that they have 5 ideas to stop the oil.

And now Obama feels responsible for the oil spill because it was a government failure and now he said that he is sorry for the disaster. But the people still do not blame him for the spill. But people are still angry at the government for it.

Click on this page for NPR and Google's 24/7 webcam of the leaking drill.

U.S. puts hold on drilling permits

The United States has stopped giving permits for drilling the oil out of the Gulf of Mexico.

The workers put out an one hundred ton box, trying to collect most all of the oil, yet only about eighty-five percent of the oil.

Ken Salazar went to the Houston center of BP, which is responsible for getting the oil out of the gulf.

Oil is spilling out into the ocean at five thousand barrels, or two hundred ten thousand gallons daily. The people in charge might be working on Sunday, but they are still debating their schedule.

People say that this job might be the biggest and hardest job involving the Earth. This job hasn't been done or practiced before. Some of the test didn't go well. For example, on April 20th, there was an explosion. Eleven men are missing, and were declared dead on April 27th.

The explosion is expected to last until May 28th. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is causing harm to many animals and plants. Endangered sea turtles are fighting for their life. This could be a problem for all the seas if the oil doesn't get out soon.