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Contain a massive oil spill. a 40-foot dome lowered into the water over the weekend failed to work. >> the company is scrambling to figure out how to unclog ice crystals that have made it impossible for that containment dome to work and also to find a way to plug up the league thats spewing more than 200,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day. joining us from louisiana is doug suttles. thanks for being with us this morning. >> you bet. thank you for the chance. >> i know there was a lot of ho...

The leak source, in large volume of hydrates formed inside of 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 seabed while we evaluate options to deal with the hide rid issue. >> turn now to the flood-ravaged tennessee. a promise of help from the federal government today. homeland security general janet napolinano toured the region today. $1.5 million in flood damage in nashville alone. napolitano says will do everything to he...

Hydrates. lets try to explain what that is. ice like crystals that ended up forming inside the four-story dome that engineers were hoping would put an end to all this. hydrates are lighter than water, so that means that the dome is floating, makes it very difficult to maneuver. talking 210 thousand gallons a day fixing that problem could take at least two days before they could proceed with anything else, a bp official talked about the problem. >> a large volume of hydrates required us to move t...

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:...

Dome. yesterday evening we lowered that to the sea floor and began to place it over the source of the leak. i think as we expressed numerous times, this particular operation has never been done before at this depth. we shared that the big technical challenge was with hydrate formation. that is when gas combines with water under certain pressure and temperatures that form as crystal similar to ice. what happened as we were placing the dome over the leak source a large volume formed inside the top...

Spill and were waiting for the president to speak about the actions they plan to take to combat the massive casualty of whats happening there in the region. independent scientists have analyzed under water video released by bp. in fact, nprs analysis show it is leak is ten times worse. >> we first thought it was 1,000 barrels, then 5,000 barrels. frankly, whether it was one, five, ten or 15, far beyond that. >> tranh, what are they doing now to stop the oil thats spewing into the water? >> repor...

Actually cap this. theyre going to try to bring in what they call the top hat dome. thats going to be a smaller containment dome thats going to be moved on top of that leak point off the coast of louisiana. thats supposed to be lowered on thursday. then theyre also talking about this option, junk shot option probably another week away. potentially choosing that option as well. thats going to be a controlled blast of debris thats going to go down to the leak point. a lot of this right now is stil...

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Underwater video showing the leak. the company says it spent $450 million responding to the massive spill. and now bp is ready to try its next attempt to plug up that leak. this with a two-ton containment dome called a top hat. its made its way to the sea floor, and its being positioned to sit on top of that leak. well, nbcs tom trong joins us live from dauphin island, alabama. tom, can you explain to us what this smaller dome is? this is really a plan "b," right? >> reporter: it certainly is, l...