Some slightly encouraging news from BP this evening is that they worked out that in the first 24 hours after the cap was installed they siphoned off some 6000 barrels of oil which is better than the 1000 original guestimate. They hope to be able to increase this over the next few days, but they've still got a long way to go before they can say that they've got it under control and a lot further to go before this catastrophe is ended and the coastline/wildlife/livelyhoods are restored.