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This breaking news, host of varney and company, stuart varney. and the author of why we hate the oil companies, the former ceo of shell oil john hofmeister. welcome back, good to see you. john, last time were you here, were you not confident this would work. what do you think of where we are right now? >> well, i would emphasize the word cautious, sean before the word optimism. this is not a didn't deal. pressures are very, very tough things to deal with. if the casing is weakened or damaged, then they have to be very careful about how they deal with this whole containment device. i think it i...

This breaking news, host of varney and company, stuart varney. and the author of why we hate the oil companies, the former ceo of shell oil john hofmeister. welcome back, good to see you. john, last time were you here, were you not confident this would work. what do you think of where we are right now? >> well, i would emphasize the word cautious, sean before the word optimism. this is not a didn't deal. pressures are very, very tough things to deal with. if the casing is weakened or damaged, then they have to be very careful about how they deal with this whole containment device. i think it i...

The same time. so they can make the most of what could be a weak casing. >> sean: why don't you explain what they did here so people can understand it? >> what they basically did is they set this containment device especially designed on top of the blow-out protector. it is a big device. it has the ability, sean, to actually ram charge closings to actually shut off the flow of oil and gas from the top of the blow-out protector through the containment device to try to push that oil back into the earth. however, when they test closing it, they are taking a risk of blowing the casing below the bl...

Charles hadlock is live in louisiana. the coast guard still on alert there, right. >> >> reporter: oh, absolutely. any time there's a tropical storm or hurricane in the gulf of mexico or about to enter the gulf of mexico, all eyes are on it, though it appears to be drifting westward. and these situations you can never count out the possibility that the hurricane or tropical storm force winds could shift back to this direction. so, everybody is watching this very closely, along the gulf coast. if it does come back this way, the operation will be disrupted. right now, it's continuing on. that co...

But we're dealing with the oil and gas industry, rugged industry. oil, iron, steel, but it's a very delicate operation. 5,000 feet belows as evidence yesterday morning when one of those rovs bumped into the containment device and closed the vent. that changed the pressures and made everything out of whack. in fact, it made it dangerously, dangerous situation with natural gas coming up one of the hoses up to the ship where gas is being flaired off. that could have been disastrous. bp quickly dispositi lly reposi. the situation is growing more ominous right along the northern florida coast bec...