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Assumptions that they would have made in early of water quality would be okay. there wouldnt be much impact on marine life. and also oil wouldnt wash up on the shores even within a month of a scenario that would be five or 10 times worse than what we are dealing with now >> greta: in the report is there any reference to what they are trying to do right now? so it would show they anticipated this as a possible solution. is this new method to stop this leak brand new? >> references iner s of anyth...

Point. we knew these hydrates would be a problem but actually it was a bigger issue that we forecasted or predicted. its the combination of the water with the gas and temperature and pressure that caused them to form. the new option -- and we have been working this all along. weve already built this smaller dome. it was already available. the idea there is to keep most of the water out at the very beginning and also allow us to put what we call methanol in so the hydrates wont form. >> you have ...

This was a disappointment that was widespread when the containment dome didnt work. but this announcement by bp that they are resuming, pumping down the chemicals, 5,000 feet at the source of the leak because they had abandoned that days ago because of environmental concerns. if they are going back and doing that right now i think thats a sign everybody here is realizing this is the 20th day and some estimated 200,000 gallons of oil every single day is continuing to rise to the surface, john. jo...

To find a short-term solution, bp today resumed directly pumping those chemical oil dispersions at the base because they abandoned that out of the environmental concerns. >> people are concerned what bp is doing is trying a bunch of things that likely wont work, knowing they have to drill the relief well which will take 90 days and as a result, the biggest crisis in american history is upon us. >> thats why theyre eager to get a short-term solution. unfortunately everything has failed. 60 to 90 ...

Its called a top kill, essentially what they would use a series of long pipes and hoses. they would blast chunks of rubber into the blowout preventer to essentially clog it up. that raises new risks but, again they are weighing all their options. >> juliet: chris, thank you for that report. >> gregg: man made oil leaks like the one in the gulf of mexico can be an environmental nightmare. but nature can create it on a comparable scale. natural seepage of crude from the sea floor exceeds 47 millio...

Remember that was a device that failed and allowed this disaster to happen in the first place. theyre talking about setting one up, a new one down there to possibly stem the flow of oil. theyre also looking at something called a top kill where they actually inject solid material into the pipe to essentially for lack of a technical term clog it up. but these all carry their own types of risks. and the biggest risk being it could actually make this worse than it already is. so they are trying to f...

Once it gets to the seabed, the underwater remote control submarines will actually attach it down there and theyll attach that mile-long steel pipe so they can siphon the oil out of it. both bp, as well as the coast guard, are working under the assumption that this is not going to work. they say there are just too many varyuals -- variables, things like water push on the dome and oil pressure pushing up, as well as things getting clogged inside that siphon pipe. so theyre working under that assu...

Fix that didnt work, along with static kill, would the bottom kill, top kill. >> the medical profession did a terrible job with public relations, i was a reporter in houston in the 70s, we found the chairman of textco at a time when people were lined up for gas and many people will remember that, odd and even days when you could get your tank filled up. he was filling up in the basement of the textco building. worst pr. they never get it. >> tony hayward, i want my life back and hes at a yacht r...

Fix that didnt work, along with static kill, would the bottom kill, top kill. >> the medical profession did a terrible job with public relations, i was a reporter in houston in the 70s, we found the chairman of textco at a time when people were lined up for gas and many people will remember that, odd and even days when you could get your tank filled up. he was filling up in the basement of the textco building. worst pr. they never get it. >> tony hayward, i want my life back and hes at a yacht r...

Suppression of the pressure inside the capping stack and basically have reached a static condition in the well that allows us to have high confidence that there will be no oil leaking into the environment and we have significantly improved our chances to finally kill the well with the relief wells when that does occur. >> todays success a sharp contrast to the long list of failed attempts to stop the well forethe first 87 days. you remember that list well. its like a list of greatest hits. the b...