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Secretary nepal tano and salazar will conduct an investigation department much interior. this is an unprecedented event. you have dual purpose. coast guard over the vessel that was over it and connected by the riser pipe. well do that with total transparency. >> bp is hammered publicly and by the president and deservedly so . but does the government deserve criticism? homeland security did not rule it a pill of national significance until eight days after the explosion. >> the desination of spil...

The costs of this deployment. the president obama also asked his advisor for homeland security, john brennan to hold a meeting yesterday to discuss the oil spill with top level cabinet members and included in that meeting which lasted over an hour, were homeland security secretary janet nab tanneau and interior secretary ken salazar, robert gates and epa administrator lisa jackson, the president has sent them to the gulf region to oversee the response to the oil spill. the commandant from the co...

Contain that oil leak. >> gregg: and the coast guard working to contain the spill, of course, but what about the investigation thats going on? >> reporter: right. the commandant for this effort, says a number of agencies are involved here and theyre trying to stop the oil from spilling, but theyre also trying to figure out how this all happened. here is more. >> this is an unprecedented event and what you have are dual jurisdictions, minerals management service over the drilling operation, and t...

Loss of 5,000 barrels a day? how do you cap it off? >> were trying to a couple of things, chris. first of all, when the incident occurred and the mobile drilling unit sunk, there should have been an act wags of a blow-out preventer. its a valve this shuts, that obviously did not close or it only closed partially. the challenge is to try to stop the leak around that. theyll have to drill a relief well to stop the pressure. and in the meantime were trying to deal with the leakage around the riser ...

The blowout preventers is a principal question and probably the underlying question we have at the national commission. >> last week i interviewed marvin odom, the president of shell in aspen, colorado, and he said there were multiple levels of preventive efforts that other companies including shell take, that when they take -- when they drill a well, they put in layers and layers of cementing before they open the pipe, the riser pipe and that bp did none of them. >> it is in view of most of the...

Down here the rest of the riser pipe. it was bent. it wasnt straight. they brought a machine down. they took the bolts out. they took this thing away. then they brought in a brand new piece that they just built. a cleaner piece with belter edges. they brought it down. and stacked it right on top of the old blowout preventer. what that did -- that allowed now a better sealing piece to be laid on top. not that old clunky looking cap that they put on earlier. there is a nice clean ring, clamp on to...

Because the oil will be turned back on, in the next 48 hours or so as they figure out how to proceed forward. so but this is the best news we have seen in almost three months. i think people will take that. but they also realize there are months if not years of clean-up left to do. >> thanks, ed, on the scene in new orleans. lets go to cnn center and chad myers, chad, walk us through, how did they stop this? >> they took apart the old top of the well, larry, the riser pipe went up, it bent over,...

The riser pipe it would mean worse case scenario that the oil is going under the sea bed and could pop up anywhere. you dont then know what the location is to try to contain it and eventually to stop it. >> right. and thats certainly the worst case scenario. the other thing about putting this new containment cap or this new sealing cap on top of the well is that it will actually help them when they go to kill the well with the relief well. and the reason it should help them is because the belief...

The last to hours, really more of a tone of cautious optimism. because the oil will be turned back on, in, the next 48 hours or so as they figure out how to proceed forward. so but this is the best news we have seen in almost three months. i think people will take that. but they also realize there are months if not years of clean-up left to do. >> thanks, ed, on the scene in new orleans. lets go to cnn center and chad myers, chad, walk us through, how did they stop this? >> they took apart the o...

Ultimate success will be the relief well and developer driller 3 is now at 17,840 feet measured depth. they have been there for a day or two. they are doing testing to make sure they have the right angle of attack as they close in for the last 60 or 70 feet before they last. you try to make the penetration for the relief well and the current estimate of how far away they are from the well at this point is 44", this gets pretty precise as they go down another 60 or so feet and drill into a seven ...