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Anchoring system down. we are looking towards potentially next tuesday bringing an additional production vessel online. that will get us to the previously briefed 53,000 barrel a day capacity. thats notwithstanding the removal of the containment cap today for the issue that ive just talked about. on a more somber note, we had two deaths reported on people who were involved in this response earlier today. one was an accident regarding a swimming pool -- swimming event, and another one was a vesse...

Down that prevents hydrates from forming. the discovery enterprise removed the containment cap and moved away until they could assess the conditi condition. they have indicated the problem was a remotely operated vehicle had bumped into one of the vents that allows the excess oil to come out and actually closed it, thereby creating pressure, and the backflow up the water vent. they are checking the containment cap right now. if there are no hide rates in the containment cap, they will reinstall ...

Taking a look now at some of the stories making headlines. first, general mcchrystal is out. general petraeus is in. thats the decision from the white house you saw here live a short time ago. mcchrystal was relieved of his command in afghanistan after a morning meeting with president obama. petraeus, who was the architect of the iraq strategy, is being asked now to step in and take over in afghanistan. also, the containment cap has been taken off the broken bp well in the gulf of mexico. coas...

>> reporter: can you overcome that and get the boats actually working on the water? >> yes. >> we will. >> we will do it. >> reporter: so the dragon fly team says they will keep turning out the innovative boats, confident in time they will prove to be lifesavers. and you are in "the situation room." happening now the commander in chief cites a strict code in relieving the senior military commander. and why he asks another senior military commander to take over the role. and a deep sea accide...

A proper safe place to train people to attack us. that is what we are trying to achieve in pakistan and afghanistan and keeping them disorganized and on the run, and hopefully, petraeus can soldier on and not grant any interviews. and chris says i am eight years in the military and unfortunately general mcchrystal did this to himself and he let down the troops and the american people. he knew better and his staff should have known better. a sad commentary on a remarkable military career. you wan...

They were siphoning up oil, of course, to a ship. the most it collected was yesterday. well, today the news we just got a short time ago is that the containment cap is now off. take a look at that picture. that oil is now leaking into the gulf with nothing stopping it once again. containment cap is off. well explain why in just a moment. but another piece of news we got today was, in fact, that two people -- two workers who were a part of this disaster relief, this disaster response, have died. ...

Rising through the vent that carries the warm water down to prohibit the hydrates from forming. out of an abundance of caution, the discover enterprise removed the containment cap with the riser and moved away until they could contain the condition. >> what caused that gas to rise through the vent, admiral allen says a remotely operated sub, an rov bumped into the vent and shut it off. that hits home the delicate balancing act with all of the vessels on the surface and below that are starting to...

And we will see if it happens. we will see what general petraeus has to say about it. he, of course, supports the president, but many xhaernd xhc say it is condition-based and we will have to wait and see how many troops are brought home by then. >> and that is what he testified before congress that that date is a conditions based, and if the conditions dont justify the start of the withdrawal, presumably it wont happen, and if it does, it will. questions for general petraeus as early as next we...

Hear from the source itself about what we are doing together. a few weeks ago, we signed an mou between the department of labor and osha and the national incident commander laid out how we would work together moving forward, and its been a strong team moving, and i would like to introduce mr. barab right now. thank you. >> thank you, admiral. im going to spend a few minutes talking about what osha has been doing, how we have been working with the national incident command -- >> a couple of -- ma...

He also talked a little bit about what may have happened. they had noticed that there was a gas rising through that vent that prevents those hydrates from forming, and what it looks like is one of the remote operated vehicles bumped into that vent and may have now caused a problem with the containment cap. and if you remember, back -- those hydrates were a problem with the first dome. >> yeah, those crystals, right? these ice crystals? >> exactly. exactly. and the first dome didnt have the vents...