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Here in the united states, noah operates a system called dart. it stands for deep ocean assessment and reporting of tsunamis. dart is a network of 39 stations out at sea, anchored to the bottom of the sea floor. up on the ocean surface is a buoys that gathers information about temperature and pressure and sends it back to be analyzed four times an hour. using anchors and buoys information, the system determines essentially the height of the water, and if the buoys detect some unusual event, they...

So theyre focusing specifically on the clean-up. all that oil you see in the sand as well as on the ocean surface. exprize told cnn yesterday, y e quote, every time we have a winner, its a maverick, a free thinker. theyre looking for you. the exprize foundation getting attention for its prize of $10 million awarded for the development of a private spacecraft. you probably remember that. and the nonprofit foundation created other prizes thereafter. to get in touch with them, go to their website x...

Now we are talking about $50 billion. a big difference. >> thank you so much. we have a new development on the efforts to capture more of that escaping oil. bp announced a second containment system is now in place and it began gathering more of the oil and gas to a vessel on the ocean surface and cannot yet measure how much oil and gas is being captured. we will, of course, let you know as we know. youve seen the devastation and heard the complaints. now its your chance to help. join us mond...

Muslims, jewish, christians, we have to come together for the health of society, for a stronger nation. we have to work together instead of finger-point against each other. it could be another mcveigh, it could be another bin laden. but for the future and for our safety, for safetys sake, we have to work together against all of these kind of terrorist activities and radicalism. and im sure we going to have, well prevent any future attacks against our country. >> sofian, we are all in. i can assu...

We begin the hour with grim new developments off the coast of louisiana. an oil spill more than 50 miles from shore is now much worse than anyone thought. the coast guard confirming more than 200,000 gals or 5,000 barrels per day of crude are pouring into the gulf of mix co. thats five times more oil than anyone feared. there is new complications this morning as well. a third leak at the sight of last weeks explosion has now been discovered a mile beneath the ocean surface. the president is offe...

To facilitate it. jon: i guess the good news is the pipe that the oil is leaking on the of is kinked, its bent like a garden hose and its actually shutting down much the flow. i mean, it would be much worse if it didnt have that kink? >> its considerably constricted at this point and its leaking apparently about 1000 barrels a day. jon: looking at some of these pictures, im remained of the exxon valdez spill, i was up there when that boat hit the rocks near valdez. that was much worse, that was ...

Prevented the shooting rampage that left 13 people dead. ed inial hasan is now awaiting court-martial. senator lieberman said he is willing to address the obama administrations main concern that the release of the data could compromise the prosecution of major hasan. we expect a news conference at 4:00 p.m. eastern time today on the offshore oil rig explosion that triggered a massive ongoing oil leak into the gulf of mexico. 11 oil rig workers are missing and presumed dead after tuesdays explosi...

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Explain what happened, let alone why this happened. >> and tom costello, what do they actually have to have before they would launch one of those submersibles. >> they have to have -- literally triangulated from three different points in which they are able to dwget a better location of where the pinger may be on ocean floor. three different audio points on the ocean surface. with that data, hopefully they can launch the submersible. the pingers will give you a signal about a mile to two, to fiv...