Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100510:17:12:00
Supposed to do. as you see in this animation, bp over the weekend lowered a 100-ton containment dome. its really a big concrete block. 5,000 feet under the water. it was supposed to cap off the bigger of two leaks. there are two leaks underground. this one was supposed to go on top of them. the pipe out of the top was supposed to force the oil up there and it would be piped right to the surface so it was contain contained. heres the problem, as they lowered this thing, theres a natural gas in th...
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