Breaking It Up News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Suggestion of nuking the leaks. first, taking out the trash, taking some carefully selected items like tires and golf balls, putting it into a pipe and seal it with mud and concrete. the trash option. or bp could do the opposite, drill another hole in the damaged pipeline and route the oil to a tanker on the surface. then the contracting company showing how crews could use bails of hay to absorb the oil but not the water. look at that. despite the creativity, lawmakers in d.c. don't seem too impressed. >> right now by their own admission, bp is largely making it up as they go. they're engaging...

100,000 plus documents, most from bp, revealing in some of them the preventer -- the one responsible for stopping the oil flow had a hydraulic leak in a critical area and failed a pressure test prior to the explosion. >> shepard: what about the top hat? when will we see them test that? >> well, it's on the sea floor now. adjacent to where they'll place it tomorrow, over where the oil is leaking in the main of the two remaining leaks. what they're doing today, they're attaching the hoses to it and will pump methane down. that combined with the pipeline within a pipeline, pumping hot water, is s...

That dome failed. some oil reached shorelines. bp is trying another fix, a small device called a top hat but lawmakers are asking if this could have been prevented if the companies involved with the rig would have paid more attention to safety measures. phil keating is live in empire, louisiana. we've been hearing a lot of blame tossed around in the oil disaster hearings in washington. that's still going on today, isn't it? >> reporter: there is that still going on today but a little bit more forthcomingness by the witnesses as which hear now that oil has been spotted on the shoreline west of ...

That comes from kevin yeager, a professor at the university of southern mississippi who says some cleanup efforts could hurt the environment and money would be better spent helping local economies recover. pierce chapman is head of the department of oceanography at texas a&m. >> tell me what peat moss might do and how would you implement these ideas? >> well, some of the ideas put forward, like peat moss or hair or woodchips, rely on the fact they're organic materials and would absorb the oil. that's fine in theory and works if you have a isolated area to protect. but when you're out in the mi...

Burn it so that the ocean itself doesn't cool down the flames too quickly. this will allow the oil to burn. but you obviously -- there's a problem in that you get air pollution instead but surprisingly this technique has been used successfully in the arctic if oil collects on ice flows and pools into thick layers and it burns well and you can get rid of a large percentage. but in the open ocean it's hard. >> we have a satellite delay. a lot of people are unhappy about the use of dispersements saying they're pollutants and could cause problems. then there's the idea from the -- the professor fr...