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Just imagine one of these. what you have is a pipe less than a foot in diameter spewing oil under enormous pressure. should have automatically shut this down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. so, what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device. for simplicity, just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before i...

To the oil getting on the foeters of the birds, getting on the plankton. the plankton is eaten by everyone else and then you have a food chain disaster. already lawsuits being filed against bp by some of the fishermen in the southeastern part of louisiana because they know their livelihood is over. >> things continue to happen throughout the hour. if they do, wheel check back with you. >> with that oil fast approaching, experts to volunteers are scrambling to try to minimize damage to wetlands a...

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Does he have a point in that at all? >> of course. theyre also hired by british petroleum. both of them are going to be culpable for this. the problem is, weve had a lot of drill, baby, drill. and its spill, baby, spill. people have been telling american people that offshore drilling is dangerous. what weve heard is, oh, its changed. theres new technology. were now green. british petroleums logo said theyre for beyond petroleum. whats new energy about this? its dirty oil, devastating communities...

When bp plans any activity, drilling or otherwise, in addition to all the required permitting for our plans we also carry out full environmental impact assessments, examining our planned activities in detail, and potential impacts on the environment and doing all we can to minimize them. the detailed planning clu include plans for response. what are your thought? >> all have you to do is look alaska, and here in texas 2005, texas city. british petroleum where people died. british petroleum will ...

This down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device for simplicity. just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads it up and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a depth. the military could be crucial because they ha...

Sunday it could be pensacola. no end in sight. the water is still mixing in. the wind is blowing it right to shore and were still seeing -- up to 210,000 gallon of new oil in the water every day. >> they cant go in there and cap it off. yesterday we were talking about the fact that they burn oil off. you know, a slow burn. but they didnt do that today. why not? >> they didnt do it today because the wind was too strong. yesterday was perfect conditions, they lassoed it up, corralled the oil, made...

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