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Long. weve been waiting to hear what malaysian officials believe about this. they said, of course, there needs to be much more confirmation right now before hopes get too high. there are planes flying overhead to get a closer look. there are naval vessels, surface vessels headed to that region right now to get as close as they can. that will take some time to get there, maybe even days to get there by sea. but right now, the planes have been flying overhead and are now flying back to perth, aust...

You have the prime minister of australia saying that this is credible. on the other hand, some people are cautioning this could be debris from containerships. how optimistic are you that this could be the debris from the airline? >> i wouldnt dare -- that is so far beyond my ken, i would be remiss in trying to give you an estimate. lets hope that we have some definitive action for the families, but as far as whether this is credible or not, i leave that to the people on scene. >> and just very b...

Either a permanent kill for this blowout or on the other hand make the problem much, much worse. so its important that we all pay attention. clearly, the safest thing to do would be to reconnect the blowout preventers up to the surface vessels, open the valves, relieve the pressure on the well bore, connect the relief well, run that casing, and do a bottom kill. thats what they should be doing. thats the safest thing and most people agree it is. >> all right. so we have an animation dealing with...

That apparently could take between five days and a few weeks and then your other option that theyve been talking about is the static kill shooting mud into the existing cap, the cap thats holding the oil in place. >> right. >> would you risk that? >> i dont think so. i think the static kill will put more pressure down the well bore. everybody knows that. and it could indeed compromise the integrity of the existing well bore which is already probably compromised. thats exactly what happened with ...

>> dispersance are certainly an issue. they have their own inherent toxicity, much more mild than the oil itself, but the combination of the oil and the dispersant actually has a combined cumulative toxicity thats more than the sum of the individual toxicity. so theres questions about whether to use the dispersant at depth in the first place and on the surface as well, but the other thing i think going on this morning that they installed this brand new capping stack and it sprung a leak within a...

Just wait until theyre at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers ive spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels, until theyre ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until theyre intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and cement, are blowing out the well head, then slowly start c...

Cement to go in to seal this thing off permanently, why not just wait until theyre at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers ive spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels until theyre ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until theyre intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and...

And to finally fill it up with cement. they are looking at these steps that theyre taking now to pay off when they finally intersect that well. >> do they say what happens if it fails? >> reporter: if it fails, they have a couple plans in the wings. nothing like this has ever been tried before. theyre talking about if they are unsuccessful at capping this well with cement, they will try to come up with a system where they will take that oil and move it into an empty well also on the bottom of th...

Reservoir deep beneath the ocean floor. >> if we could do that, it would give us option of controlling the flow without having the surface vessels there to some extent. it wouldnt the capacity were looking for but another risk mitigator to handle some of the oil. >> reporter: in new orleans, coast guard commandant told molly henneberg to prepare for hurricane to push critical ship offstation he is seeking additional 20 offshore skimming vessels and other resources, much of which should arrive in...

Singapore as well as u.s. aircraft, conducting a search and rescue effort for those ten missing sailors. again, there were also five sailors injured in that collision. were told none of those injuries were life threatening. theyre all being treated now. again, this collision with a u.s. warship against a civilian craft just coming two months after another collision between the uss fitzgerald and cargo ship which cost the life of seven sailors and prompted an investigation and including making th...