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Ships evacuate spill site as tropical storm nears

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Engineers prepared to abandon their vigil over BP's broken oil well Friday as ships and workers evacuated the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie. The mechanical plug that's throttled the oil for a week will be left closed. The only way BP would know if the cap had failed would be satellite and aerial views of oil gushing to the surface.

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