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Radiation levels surged early in the day. it doesn't say where. it says work on dousing reactors with water. they are obviously not cooling those reactors down. >> shepard: from the very beginning, what we've been told on camera and off camera is this, we are fine as long as we can keep liquid on to that place. as long as we can still have our workers there, everything is fine. what happens if we can have our workers there is a different story. what we've been told from the beginning is, we won't get to that point. we are sure we are fine. we are sure this is contained. we are sure the contain...

Changes, i'm sure. a lot of procedural changes. everybody will look at drilling these wells and doing these operations totally different. >> reporter: one difference? there is now an rov in the water 24/7 keeping careful watch over the relief well's blowout preventer. james lusk is the pilot. he takes his professional assignment personally. >> we all live by the coast. and this here could hopefully stop it, sir. >> reporter: all the containment domes and the top cap, what you see behind me on the enterprise is probably as good as it will get until the month of august, because the last best cha...

And try to syphon off some of the oil and put it on a container vessel and ship it to shore. that's one of the other ideas. then they have the top hat, almost a smaller version of the original containment dome. the idea would be to lower that and place it over the leak. they'd syphon it to the surface. one idea they were batting around a few days ago was the idea of the junk shot, where they would use, self-explanatory, junk, pieces of tire, even golf balls. the idea would be to blast it right at the leak almost in the effect of a giant shotgun and using all those particles like, say, shrapnel...

Months at sea in her pink yacht. yes, that is it. here she is before she set out. she is now the youngest person to sail around the world nonstop and unassisted. thes not an official record because the world's speed sailing record council discontinued its youngest category. how dare they? >> how dare they? >> kate? coast guard and oil giant bp trying again to stem the flow of oil gushing into the gulf coast. inserting a tube into a cup which you ared pipe, collecting oil and sending it to a surface vessel and bp may try to cap the rupture with a small containment dome. they can do something ...

The spill is having on businesses in the gulf. cnn meteorologist reynolds wolf is in biloxi, mississippi, this morning. reynolds, are you hearing anything about the containment efforts? how are those going? >> reporter: the containment efforts are actually pretty varied. with a situation like this, they've been trying all kinds of things. for viewers turning in across america, you'll remember one of the ideas was to get a containment dome, something ability 40 feet in height, almost looked like a four-story house almost. weighed 125 tons. that didn't work. that was set aside. the other option ...