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And it is one that helps them to rally their base. and i think president obama will use it to rally his base as well. the court has the future of the entire way the government approaches such problems like this. that whole question is in the air right now. >> i want to talk about what we heard. if anything that we heard leaves us a clue of what tomorrow will be like, we have a little montage of whether this was a tax or not. first let me play this. >> now here congress has nowhere used the word ...

When you think about this, one federal official said this is like a volcano down here. its not on fire but that kind of pressure is coming out of here. you have all this coming out of this area. theyre trying to control it. theyre worried because there are bits of gravel and sand in that torrent of oil. if there is a kink in this pipe, a bend somewhere in here that could grind away at it, that could make it tear loose. then you might lose the whole well head and then you would have completely ou...

This area. theyre trying to control it. theyre worried because there are bits of gravel and sand in that torrent of oil. if there is a kink in this pipe, a bend somewhere in here that could grind away at it, that could make it tear loose. then you might lose the whole well head and then you would have completely out of control flow here. thats the problem. as one lsu scientist said, this is really like a small volcano and you know those arent easily stopped. >> that is very frightening to think ...

How it would work. all we can talk about is the theory here. what theyre talking about is some kind of a collection device that essentially would sit above the target here. so that as this enormous torrent of fuel comes blasting out here, you cant stop it here. it is simply too powerful here. if you let it disperse just a bit so that it gets a little bit softer, then you come in with something like this and it starts sucking it up in effect. you avoid the pressure issue. you take it up to the su...

Lower an undersea collection device for simplicity. just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads it up and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a depth. the military could be crucial because they have deep-diving subs to help run this operation. that could take four weeks compared to the other alternative. bp is moving another drilling rig into position to drill ...

Just imagine one of these. what you have is a pipe less than a foot in diameter spewing oil under enormous pressure. should have automatically shut this down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. so, what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device. for simplicity, just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before i...

This down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device for simplicity. just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads it up and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a depth. the military could be crucial because they ha...