Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100427:10:14:00
It's larger than the state of rhode island and all of that oil could reach shore in the next few days. brian todd spoke to david kennedy about some of the challenges ahead. >> what's going on right now. they have submersibles down here by the blow-out preventer and want to start to mitigate that by drilling down here and acty vating it with the submersibles. how does that work? >> they are essentially trying to pinch the pipe to shut off the flow. for whatever reason, given maybe the kind of accident it was, the preventer didn't immediately kick in. they are trying to activate it. to drill a...