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Depths even remotely like this. a mile under water. how the structure will behave in such cold dense water is anyones guess. the dome was built by wild well control, a contractor that for 35 years has specialized in these kinds of oil spill disasters, because crises happen so often in the oil and gas industry that they can sustain a whole disaster sub industry for decades. also a second oil burn was successful yesterday. a small amount of the oil slick was rounded up with fireproof booms and set...

To dilute, literally dilute the toxin. everybody can do an expermit im in their kitchen. fill up your kitchen sink. put some grease on the surface. the grease floats. sprinkle in some joy or other dish soap. youll see instantly the surface sheen looks like it disappears. it doesnt disappear. what it does is it breaks into little tiny droplets like rain. and it instantly goes into the water column. so the thing to remember here is like a rlesson from early classroom chemistry. like dissolves like...

On the surface of the water where it makes the oil sheen divide out and split. and it mixes with the water so you get tiny little oil droplets down in the water column. and these -- the trade-off is that youre trying to save animals on shore by trading off animals and fish in the water column. >> i see. >> youre killing shrimp eggs. >> why would -- why would bp want to use this? why would they reportedly get the endorsement from the epa to actually use this and put these chemicals in the water t...

Chris. this is going to be a prototype or a test that was approved by the interagency team. weve used disbursants on the surface and theyve been effective at disbursing the oil where we can get to it. were going to try a test in the next day, where well put disbursants through a pipe down to the source of the leak to see if key want discharge disbursants at the point of the leak. this has never been done before at least at this depth. were trying everything possible. these are ideas that have co...

Storms. if you get the wind through there, remember when you were a kid and awed salad dressing bottle and put oil in and the oil stays in the thick layer. if you shake it and disperse it moves into smaller droplets. they sink. eventually we will see enough weather to churn this up and help. we talked about hurricane season. that might be a blessing to get this turned up and the oil settled and off the top of the water. >> shepard: you talk to the experts not involved with the government and bp,...

Drill relief wells that would divert the oil flow into a storage facility. the spill could amount to more than 4 million gallons of oil, spilling into the gulf of mexico, which is about half of the oil that spilled from the exxon valdez 21 years ago. joining us now is commander richard shultz. thank you for your time tonight, commander, appreciate it. >> youre welcome, glad to be here. >> what can you tell us about the overall cleanup and containment effort. whats been tried and how successful h...

Could take three months to drill relief wells that would divert the oil into a storage facility. 16,000 barrels a day the spill could amount to 4 million gallons of oil spilling into the gulf of mexico before all is said and done, a little less than half the amount of oil spilled from the exxon valdez into alaskas prince william sound 21 years ago. joining us now commander richard schultz, commanding officer of the u.s. coast guard atlantic strike team. thank you for your time tonight, commander...

You see the superdome there, also make out through some of the droplets on the screen on the right, thats downtown atlanta. right now, new orleans and atlanta under the gun like so many other areas, because of watches and warnings that are in effect right now, and these things continue to pop up. >> bonnie schneider has been keeping an eye on this for us. fast moving. a lot of change. are we still talking watches and warnings and no tornadoes touching down? exactly, brooke. tornado warnings, thi...

If you cant keep them three feet apart, put them in the classroom and use masks or other efforts but get them back in the classroom. why is that so important? >> lets be clear about how covid spreads. back a year and a half ago when we first put the guidelines in place, we thought that covid spread through droplets. distance was going to be really important. we know it spreads through the air, through aerosol. whether youre one foot or six feet apart doesnt make as much of a difference as wearin...

Contributor jason chafetz. great to see you all. they finally admitted the virus is spread through aerosols not droplets so that 6 feet social distancing is not based on the justification now they have made clear everyone who has been fully vaccinated is at no risk or incredibly low risk incredibly protected no public health justification therefore to discriminate against unvaccinated people and all the rules that go with that. so people are talk about civil disobedience so what is the legal bas...