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Response. department of the homeland security did not rule it a fill of national significance eight days after the explosion first occurred. >> other side of this from bp. transocean that runs the rig and owns it. bp it is their well and haliburton involved in the cementing process when they pour it down to cap it. there are three players . critics are saying bp didn't tell the federal government they had a problem. bp told them we don't have a leak here. >> they say it was only the residual oil from the actual accident. it they didn't say it was hemoraging oil under the surface which is now w...

To pass comprehensive climate change legislation, not even a month before the deep water horizon massive offshore oil rig exploded and sank 50 miles off the gulf coast. it's now spilling at least 210,000 gallons of crude oil a day into the gulf of mexico, creating an oil slick bigger than the state of west virginia. it's now washing up on the environmentally fragile louisiana coast. the cause of the initial explosion on the rig off the louisiana's coast is still unknown, though there are multiple lates already filed as a result of this. several against halliburton, alleging the cementing proce...

In venice, louisiana. so another good morning. how is it going at this point? >> reporter: hey, good morning, alex. we're still waiting for any word to come from about 50 miles off the coast here where that operation is under way. the last we heard from bp was some time yesterday afternoon that they had started the cementing process. that started at about 1:30 local time. it was expected to take a few hours. then they needed to let that cement cure. after that they were going to do their pressure test. then at that point they would be able to declare this well killed, that it would never again...