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Cost in. >> no, this acoustic system is just another way to try to activate the blowout preventer, like in a way a remote control, but actually the individual on the drilling rig activated the system before they evacuated. yet, the blowout preventer didnt stop the flow so i dont believe that would have made a difference. >> one final question a lot of people want to know. who is ultimately to blame here, is it bp? >> i dont know. i actually dont know. my focus is getting this flow stopped. clean...

>> also we came to learn recently shall the wall street journal, bp had an opportunity to put in secondary safety measures and put this out to our viewers on twitter. the overwhelming question why didnt bp put in the secondary measures to put in. >> we had every safety on this, it should have stopped the flow, i dont know why it didnt. the government wants to know, we want to know. everyone wants to no. as far as im aware, we had the things that the industry would expect and actually the governm...

Here in the federal government as an act of terrorism. >> we will absolutely ntune in for that. the damage on the oil spill. critics say he should have done it sooner, obviously, its been over a week since this happened. >> look, there is some second guessing going on now and i think its legitimate about the response of the federal government and also, bp, about this. im not sure whether the president needed to go down or not, but it has been since april 20th when this explosion took place and w...

Prepared to contain any spill off shore, because it was 48 miles off the coast of louisiana, its response would severely minimize environmental damage to the coast line and right now, that completely appears in doubt. because what we have here is an estimated 2 million gallons of sweet crude thats already spilled into the gulf of mexico and thats just a guesstimate. because its clearly undefined. no one knows with absolute certainty exactly how much oil has already spilled, but everyone knows th...

There were a few of the jokes and. >> great comedic timing nths last night i was up watching c-span because i was watching the correspondents dinner how bummed i was i couldnt be there. you know who was starring, gretta van susteren, she was in a close-up, thats all you could see. behind the scenes correspondents dinner gossip. >> well be back with more on the show. a land grab heating up. theyre duking it out for eminent domain, how does it every happen. >> plus, president obama after the corre...

Decades, uses the word unprecedented for three reasons. number one, the depth were dealing with, 5,000 feet below the surface where b ps pipeline is ruptured in three different places, spewing oil into the gulf of mexico, still unchecked and uncontrolled. thats led to an unprecedented remotely operated vehicles. youve got people up on the surface controlling the robotics down underneath the water and as we know for ten straight days, those robotics have been miserably a failure as to pinching th...

How close are we and why is it so difficult? >> well, of course, what were trying to do is get this thing stopped as quick as we can, it could be today, but it could actually take up to two to three months as you just said. our efforts are focused on stopping it quickly and the alternative plan and we hope to have it ready in eight days. >> one of the criticisms of bp this morning, a year ago in an environmental impact assessment that you gave to the federal government you claimed that you could...

Time. good information for us. >> thanks, bo. >> bye. >> another fox news alert, the crisis in the gulf growing today. president obama will visit the gulf region to assess damage from the massive oil spill which has tripled in size and earlier on "fox & friends," were joined by the chief operating officer of bp, who couldnt explain why his company is having such trouble containing a situation they claimed that they were fully prepared forment take a listen. >> well, i think unfortunately, were a...

>> phil keating, thank you, well check with you. >> we should mention later this hour well talk with the chief operating officer of bp, what theyre doing to prevent the problem from spreading and obviously coming under a lot of criticism and well answer some of the questions for you. >> its a busy morning here, obviously, we r were tracking deadly severe weather in tennessee have killed at least five people. this is video, if you can believe it of interstate 24 near nashville. the road is comple...

Preventing c 130 aircraft. two of which have been deployed to the area and two more are expected to be provided by the department of defense, theyre not spraying the chemical dispersement from the air because its so windy. instead of using the chemical from the planes, they poured it down a 5,000 foot tube from a ship above where the cracks are in the pipeline, using remotely operated vehicles, they were able to control where they sprayed the chemical and based on the camera footage still analyz...