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And in our fourth story tonight the ominous internet posting from someone who appears to be an oil industry expert claiming that the well structure beneath the seabed is now failing which means the gusher might be unstoppable. this morning an undersea robot bumped into the containment cap system closing one of the vents gas rose through that event in which coast guard thad allen called a "burp in the system." they had to check it for crystals that might fatally clog the system. now operations ha...

Louisiana. good morning. >> hey, chris, the containment cap is back on and bp says its collecting oil this after a discouraging day of setbacks in louisiana and along the gulf coast. wednesday night engineers used remote operated vehicles to reattach the containment cap. one of the vehicles that started this mess some 24 hours ago. officials say while spraying dispersant the vehicle hit the containment cap accidentally closing one vent and sending natural gas up another vent that brings warm wat...

Someone who is an oil industry expert claiming that the well structure beneath the sea bed is failing which means it might be unstoppable. this morning an undersea robot bumped into the containment gas system closing one of the vents and that had allen called it a burp in the system. they had to check it for crystals that might clog the system. now operations have begun to re-install the cap. the containment cap which was capturing only a portion of the gushers oil had been containing none of it...

In the ocean, and we cant be impatient that new technology has the answer. and a lot of times new technology doesnt have the answer. and just another example in a long list of outrageous things they have said, dont worry about this, oil always goes to the surface, thats a scientific law. thats wrong because scientists in mississippi have found that many thousands of feet below the surface that not all the oil is going to the top, its forming sort of crystallized in very minute crystals and formi...

Crystals -- how much harm with they cause? well, theyre lighter than water. so, one, they can make the dome boy ant. two, they can mass up on the top of the dome and really block some of that oil from getting to the ship thats capturing it on the surface. so a big problem there. theyre looking at the liquid now. if there are no hydrates, they say they should be able to start the process of putting the cap back on. if there are hydrates, admiral thad allen saying thats going to take quite a bit l...

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...

Thing to happen, and we understand the gulf shores police department is following up on the death of the vessel of opportunity operator. >> you hear there are not a lot of details from admiral allen. lets bring in our chris lawrence who can possibly give us more details about whats going on right now. chris, hello to you, and really some astonishing news on a couple fronts. one, the fact of the two deaths, but also the fact that the containment cap is not on. and we want to handle both of those ...

[ male announcer ] turns shaving into gliding. and skeptics into believers. new fusion proglide. welcome back. were following breaking news in the gulf oil disaster. right now that containment cap thats been capturing some of the oil from the blownout well is off. there is more oil gushing out freely. the admiral in charge of the governments response says a robot vehicle bumped in to the cap and closed a vent causing pressure. the cap is being checked to determine if it became clog the with ic...

It is in the works, but it faces a couple of obstacles, putting a smaller tube inside the 21-inch pipe that is gushing oil. one of the things that the authorities here, the officials, have to do is the smaller pipe has to deploy a series of flaps into the larger pipe. if thats not successful the oil is going to spill out the sides. secondly, there is concern about methane ice crystals being formed this far down. if that happens, those ice crist cal -- crystals could enclosing the smaller pipe an...

Spill, says the senator whose own state is staring down the barrel of 4 million gallons of coastal oil and counting. joining us now live from venice, louisiana, is nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson. ann, thank you so much for your time tonight. what can you tell us about the very latest on the effort to cap this well. >> well, rachel, theyre pursuing something called the top hat, a smaller containment dome on the sea floor. over the next 24 hours or so, engineers ho...