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To at least try and mitigate the damage. over my shoulder, we're in a bayou a mile or so from the gulf, you can see a platform here on a dock, there are white sponge-like items, special absorbent material, sobs, that they're trying to take on a boat, to try and sop up the oil that is getting out beyond the barriers that authorities have put in place. but as you can see, this is literally, you might say, a drop in an ocean of oil that might be absorbed. and it nevertheless remains a very serious problem. what they really need to do is stop the oil leak itself, and what bp is now attempting to d...

President obama tomorrow. how far is the obama administration willing to go to ease tension with its crucial ally with the war on terror? and we'll have the latest on the condition of the delaware attorney general, bo biden. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." more than 4 million gallons of oil is tainting the gulf of mexico right now and threatening wildlife. crews don't know exactly when or if they'll be able to plug the well that's been gushing for weeks. this is their next best hope. check out these new pictures of what's called the top hat. that's a smaller containment d...

Multiple occupy shuns in parallel. we tried the large dome over the weekend. it want successful. too much hydrate formation. a consequence of there being much greater gas in the flow of hydrocarbons than we had anticipated. so we are now moving to deploy over the next 72 hours, a smaller containment device, a so-called top hat. which is described like that because it looks like a top hat. put new the water on the end of a piece of drill pipe to fit over the leak. we'll be doing that over the next 72 hours. in parallel there are a series of other operations being planned on the blow-out prevent...

Multiple occupy shuns in parallel. we tried the large dome over the weekend. it want successful. too much hydrate formation. a consequence of there being much greater gas in the flow of hydrocarbons than we had anticipated. so we are now moving to deploy over the next 72 hours, a smaller containment device, a so-called top hat. which is described like that because it looks like a top hat. put new the water on the end of a piece of drill pipe to fit over the leak. we'll be doing that over the next 72 hours. in parallel there are a series of other operations being planned on the blow-out prevent...

From the ship, you pour in shredded rubber, other junk and at a high velocity, rocket it down and try to plug, cork, jam the leaking oil. they're going to try that possibly. but again, that's never been done at 5,000 feet. >> phil. thank you. >> one environmental expert says bp engineers are trying anything they can think of to contain the leak or give the perception they might contain the leak. mike miller, safety boss, predicted the spill would be bigger than the exxon valdez spill weeks ago. >> you know, it hasn't surprised many experts with whom i've been speaking that none of these soluti...