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>> lets talk about the situation from your assessment there. what did you see and how does it look? >> well, its a huge spill. its probably already, as of two days ago, bigger than all the spills associated with katrina and receipt a. at the present flow rate, it would equal the volume of the exxon valdez in about 38 more days. its a major event, so were very concerned. the big question is when is the flow going to be able to be stopped? >> why is that still a question, senator vitter? what is i...

Shoreline effort. >> senator, would that, then, though, leave bp off the hook financially? >> no. that, obviously, shouldnt be the case. im saying do that in terms of operations without changing anything with regard to responsibility and liability. im confident there is a way to do that legally. nobody is arguing to change the situation regarding bps responsibility or liability. im talking about operational decisions. >> right. and, senator, i want to ask you, your constituents there who work in...

Will it be enough to stop the damage? well discuss the clean-up efforts with david vidder. also efforts to track a very big problem.

Police. and parents are being urged to stop using more than 40 over-the-counter childrens medicine. childrens tylenol, tylenol plus, motrin, zyrtek and been drill have all been recalled because they reportedly contain small particles. president obama will be heading to the gulf coast in the next 48 hours to witness the oil spill there. officials are pressing british petroleum to do more to shut off that oil and contain that oil slick. crews are working to corral or burn off the oil before it...

There. so the question is, is british petroleum not properly planned for an event like this, or some sort of accident? >> well, anything like this is certainly very unlikely, but it obviously happened. and we need to figure out how. there are multiple close-off valves and close-off structures in any huge platform like this, and so what this means is there was massive failure. and obviously a big, big part of the investigation thats going on is to figure out how that massive multiple levels of fa...

Activated for all departments to assist until yesterday. >> im curious, who is responsible for all this financially? when you deploy the military for a clean-up operation like this? is it the taxpayers? >> you and i are going to pay for it. >> will british petroleum have to be responsible for it? >> they might in the end. they can get charged, they can get fined, they can get sued by the federal government. but if they pay, its going to be years and years from now. no, you and i are going to pay...

Close them that way, but it hasnt worked yet. so plan b is a dome theyre constructing to put over the escaping oil and bring that to the surface. thats been done before, but never in this depth, 5,000 feet. plan c is to drill a relief well, which they just started, but that will be a matter of a few months. >> senator, are you satisfied with british petroleums response since this spill started? do you think everything that can be done right now is being done, or is there more we need to do? >> i...