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What are hydrates and what went wrong? >> reporter: these hydrates are crystals, sort of like ice christmas tals, when gas under pressure and the cold water mix together. they create sort of a slush. they were expecting this to be a problem when they connected the tube to the containment vessel, which they havent been able to do. these things started accumulating on the inside of the dome and clogged it up. they are lighter than water so they were making the dome buoyant. that is a very bad thin...

Diversity on the court for various reasons. it will be very interesting the calculation that goes into president obamas pick. we are waiting to hear and working our sources to figure this out as soon as possible. >> could be a pivotal week. thanks so much. kate bolduan in washington. in 20 minutes well talk about some of this weeks hot political topics including the u.s. justice department possibly suing arizona over its new controversial immigration law and well also talk about lawmakers faci...

Setback in the mission to stop the oil from gushing into the gulf of mexico. british petroleum reports that a 100 ton containment dome lowered on to the leaking well had to be moved, ice like crystals are making the contraption too clogged up in order to do the trick. bp officials say it make take another two days to study the problem. the slick is feared to be as close as three miles from the mainland. back to huckabee. [ applause ] >> mike: we are back with mario lopez who has written a new bo...

Cap the oil leak by using a submerged four-story dome. but other measures are being taken into consideration now. lets turn to cnns david mattingly in venice, louisiana. david, what are the obstacles and the options? >> reporter: well, fredricka, that containment dome has been set aside for now. sitting on the ocean floor while bp steps back to try to figure out how to get over this new hurdle that theyve encountered. as they were lowering it, that dome, it filled up with a slush, a crystallike ...

>> you have to take off your rabbit slippers before going up the stairs. thats a rookie mistake, dave. >> ill never live that down. >> all right. >> lets get back to news right now, shall we because we start your headlines with a fox news alert. b ps energy, bp energy i should say, main strategy for containing a massive oil spill in the gulf has not worked and now theyre trying to figure out what to do next. the company says ice like crystals clogged the device while engineers lowered it deep un...

More now on the efforts to contain the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. so, anne, yesterday we said it was a long shot. lets talk about the problems the crews have run into. >> reporter: that containment dome they had to move up off the leak yesterday. what happened, alex, gas hydrates start it had to form inside the containment dome. you need to think of them as ice crystals like little pieces if you ever had a slushy, thats what they look like, and they made the dome buoyant so the crystals we...

What i would say is what we attempted to do didnt work because the hydrates blocked up the top of the dome. what we expect will take the next 48 hours or so, is there a way to overcome this problem? >> reporter: now they moved the dome off the leak site and set it two football fields away from the leak. what they do, they know how to get rid of the gas hydrates, those crystals, that can move the dome to warmer waters. the problem is they dont know how to keep them from coming back and so thats w...

Officials said what went wrong. >> we place ed the dome over th leak source. hydrates formed in the top of the dome requiring us to move the dome to the side of the leak point. the dome is currently sitting on the sea bead while we evaluate options to deal with the hydrate issue. >> that dome is just one option bp is pursuing to stem the flow of crude oil, all with no guarantee that any of them will work. lets go now cnns david mattingly joining us now from venice, louisiana. david? >> reporter:...

To the surface. they had anticipated a problem with these crystals inside the pipe they were going to connect. and to counteract that, they were going to be pumping warmer water from the surface down below to heat the pipe up. so it is possible they may be looking at some sort of variation on that idea to heat up the dome as well. they were also looking at the possibility of pumping some sort of ethanol solution into that area to dissolve the crystals to dissolve that slush and clear open the do...

Karzai heading to washington on monday, hoping to shore up political and financial support from the obama administration. >> gregg: oil company bp is running into more problems in its attempt to contain that huge oil leak in the gulf. ice-like crystals are building up inside that 100-ton box meant to help contain the oil. crews say it may take two days to troubleshoot that problem. >> heather: homeland security secretary janet napolitano touring flood ravaged tennessee today, telling residents w...