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So worst case is they wont be able to use cement structures and we will have a spill of some magnitude until the well is capped and shut off below the surface. and that is not a very pretty picture in terms of the amount of oil. right now we are so early we dont know the ultimate fate but thats why were getting samples, to try to understand what happens. ultimately, some of this stuff will evaporate and microbes will eat off chemical structures, and you are left with something tarry like this. w...

Gulf has very light crude thats easier to clean up. but this particular crude, because it comes from such a very, very heavy. it emulsifies. and its not degraded by microbes. we are against dispersants. >> thats one thing we know bp has said, one way they are working on cleaning this up. let me askrk about this complaint -- >> the better way is -- >> i want to get to the specific complaint in the lawsuit. quote, the fire, explosion, and resulting oil spill was caused by the joint negligence and ...

The coast, away from grand isle. but by thursday, into friday, that high moves to the east and the winds are going to be 25 to 30 miles per hour. pushing that water and those winds and that oil back up into the shore. anywhere from grand isle all the way up to biloxi, maybe as far east as destin. the water the water stays out there, ali, and the longer the oil stays out there, the thicker its going to get. its evaporating as we speak, its becoming more of a tar ball and thats good, if it washes ...

Its being sprayed by helicop r helicopte helicopters, planes, boats and its getting into the oil itself. mixing the oil up with the waves. and then that oil kind of falling down to the ground either to the ocean floor or it gets eaten by microbes that live in the ocean naturally. so thats good. look at these pictures because this is what you were talking about. how the dark spot there on the bottom right from the european space agency, how its not just one big puddle. its been blown around a num...

Stays out there the more it clumps together and then as it comes onshore its just a tar ball. thats okay if better than an oil slick like valdez. and the longer its out there the more they can put on it getting it to be down into the water column and sink into the bottom and be eaten by microbes out there that can actually do that. >> lets hope for that outcome. chad, thank you. good explainer as always. arizona has drawn a line in the sand on illegal immigrants but are sat lawmakers the ones ...

Peace talks until israel halts a new settlement project, announced during vice president bidens visit to the country last week. and in a startling discovery, nasa finds higher life forms beneath 600 feet of ice. in a first look under an ice sheet in antarctica, scientists found a shrimp-like creature and a jelly fish where only simple microbes were believed to have exist. >> mm, shrimp. >> very, very cold shrimp. >> not a big fan of the shrimp, so ill let that one live. >> theres jelly fish to...

His sentence, just ahead. first, candy crowley has the 360 news and business bulletin. candy? >> hey, anderson. toyota today challenged a california drivers report that his prius sped out of control. the automaker says a joint investigation with federal officials found the accelerator and backup safety systems worked properly. the government is currently investigating similar claims by more than 60 other toyota owners. a top israeli diplomat says ties with the u.s. are at their worst in 35 yea...

New settlement project, announced during vice president bidens visit to the country last week. and in a startling discovery, nasa finds higher life forms beneath 600 feet of ice. in a first look under an ice sheet in antarctica, scientists found a shrimp-like creature and a jelly fish where only simple microbes were believed to have exist. >> mm, shrimp. >> very, very cold shrimp. >> not a big fan of the shrimp, so ill let that one live. >> theres jelly fish too. >> you can join the live chat ...

>> wait a minute! i need lotion. >> talking about fighting. >> you are quite a pugilist. are we the result of alien dna? dont ever show a full view of me doing that again? perhaps, say people who like to say "perhaps," we all have a little e.t. in us, according to british professor chandra -- wick-ram-a -- sorry about that. >> good for you. >> i tried! i went for it. i went for it. the university aft trobiologist says that the first seeds of life collided with earth 38 million years ago and says...

>> greg: scientists are gathered in london this week to consider places to search for extra terrestrial life. their best guess, two seats to my left. also all over the earth. arizona state university physicist paul davies says alien life may already be here in the form of tiny microbes. i think we have a picture of one. sorry, that is actually my friend mike in a robe. >> get a new robe! >> greg: because microbes are single cell organisms invisible to the naked eye and only a fraction have been ...