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Are we using what we have already. not only are we at the bottom of the barrel, but bp and everyone else is making it up from the beginning. bp obviously did not know what they were talking about from the jump shot and the top kill. all the way through the submarine, a couple days ago accidentally knocking over a part of the containment device at the bottom of the ocean. we are really beyond the capacity of an industry that under estimated safety. they assumed an accident could not happen. the r...

New numbers on how much bp is paying out to victims. its paying $104 million to resident as long the gulf coast, after receiving 64,000 claims so far. lets get an update on the effort to contain the gushing oil. nbcs charles hadlock is live in louisiana. it was shut down temporarily this within. whats the situation now? >> reporter: they have some flaring nozzles on the vessels up there burning off some of the oil as it comes up out of the containment device at the bottom of the gulf of mexico...

Separating the patches of oil in which you have open water between and there is good and bad news in that. it is widely dispersed and is hard to manage the perimeter but, if there are shore im packs, coming ashore in smaller quantities, basically smaller subsets of what might have been a larger spill i would tell you it is changing in character over the life cycle of the event and that is not necessarily bad thing and ill be glad to take any questions you might have for me. >> i know there is li...

The top hat in place today. thats a big inverted funnel and smaller than the containment device that was tried a week or so ago. subject to getting the pipe inserted to bring the pipe to the surface, we may be able to see whether or not that solution may work. i would caution everybody that this is a leak mitigation effort. its not intended to completely capture the oil in there, but it should substantially reduce it if its successful and well have to see how that goes. british petroleum is proc...

Comes up, wind and currents, its separating different patches of oil which you have open water in between. theres good and bad news in that. its widely dispersed. its hard to manage the perimeter. on the other hand, if there are shore impacts, its coming to shore in small quantities, smaller subsets of what would be a larger spill. its changing in character over the life cycle of the event. thats not necessarily a bad thing. with that, ill take questions. >> a lot about when this is going to be ...

To at least try and mitigate the damage. over my shoulder, were in a bayou a mile or so from the gulf, you can see a platform here on a dock, there are white sponge-like items, special absorbent material, sobs, that theyre trying to take on a boat, to try and sop up the oil that is getting out beyond the barriers that authorities have put in place. but as you can see, this is literally, you might say, a drop in an ocean of oil that might be absorbed. and it nevertheless remains a very serious pr...

President obama tomorrow. how far is the obama administration willing to go to ease tension with its crucial ally with the war on terror? and well have the latest on the condition of the delaware attorney general, bo biden. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." more than 4 million gallons of oil is tainting the gulf of mexico right now and threatening wildlife. crews dont know exactly when or if theyll be able to plug the well thats been gushing for weeks. this is their next best h...

Multiple occupy shuns in parallel. we tried the large dome over the weekend. it want successful. too much hydrate formation. a consequence of there being much greater gas in the flow of hydrocarbons than we had anticipated. so we are now moving to deploy over the next 72 hours, a smaller containment device, a so-called top hat. which is described like that because it looks like a top hat. put new the water on the end of a piece of drill pipe to fit over the leak. well be doing that over the next...

Multiple occupy shuns in parallel. we tried the large dome over the weekend. it want successful. too much hydrate formation. a consequence of there being much greater gas in the flow of hydrocarbons than we had anticipated. so we are now moving to deploy over the next 72 hours, a smaller containment device, a so-called top hat. which is described like that because it looks like a top hat. put new the water on the end of a piece of drill pipe to fit over the leak. well be doing that over the next...

From the ship, you pour in shredded rubber, other junk and at a high velocity, rocket it down and try to plug, cork, jam the leaking oil. theyre going to try that possibly. but again, thats never been done at 5,000 feet. >> phil. thank you. >> one environmental expert says bp engineers are trying anything they can think of to contain the leak or give the perception they might contain the leak. mike miller, safety boss, predicted the spill would be bigger than the exxon valdez spill weeks ago. >>...