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Weve asked some very pointed questions about what sort of success theyre going to have with this and theyre not able to answer that yet, because the system is so new. every step has been an experiment and theyre waiting to find out perhaps another 24 hours before they know just how much oil theyre going to collect with this. >> all right. theyre waiting for another 24 hours, but then what happens beyond this? whats next? >> reporter: this is just the first step. they wanted to stem the flow of o...

Theyre going to be able to collect with this process. weve asked some very pointed questions about what sort of success theyre going to have with this and theyre not able to answer that yet, because the system is so new. every step has been an experiment and theyre waiting to find out perhaps another 24 hours before they know just how much oil theyre going to collect with this. >> all right. theyre waiting for another 24 hours, but then what happens beyond this? whats next? >> reporter: this is ...

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Ten days from now, where theyre going to pour this type of mud that they -- they call it mud but its not the organic, garden variety mud that we know we might have outside. this is actually a liquid substance that they use in the drilling process. theyre going to be pumping barrel after barrel of that into -- directly into the well to seal it off. thats their first plan to stop this flow of oil completely. if that doesnt work, then theyve got the other standbyes. the junk shot that weve talked a...

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Mayday calls out and assembling and i seen the first of a three or four people jump to the water from the rig. >> jumping a long way into the water. we know what happens next. a huge fire which you can see in the photos from the scene. these are new photographs weve never seen. eleven people were killed and the rig sunk into the gulf causing the oil leak, still going on today. this morning united states senate committee started looking into the disaster, including executives from the three compa...