Crews nearly 25 feet away from intercepting damaged BP oil well

Once they make contact, tests will be done to determine whether cement needs to pumped into the outer ring of the damaged well to plug it permanently, a top government official says.A relief well is "almost touching" BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that officials could declare the source of the nation's largest offshore oil spill killed by Sunday, a top government official said Wednesday.

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