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From the back side. this is the q4 thousand. again, it was yood in the top kill. a second line is coming up from under the water to help with the containment effort. let's take a look at what we're talking about. the ship is on the shore here. here is what they would like from just beneath under the water. now we go down that mile under the sea. remember, that's what makes this so difficult. it is 5,000 feet down. right here you get a sense, this is the oil still leaking. here is the wellhead underground. again, we can take a look around at this. you see some of the remote operated vehicles. a...

The challenge. this is the pipe bringing the crude up to the enterprise. as you go down and sink down to ocean floor a mile deep you see the equipment they have put on. and in here, this is the wellhead here. the cap they put on is underneath here. you still see oil spewing out. we don't know totally over the course of the crisis. we do know now 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day in excess of the capacity of bp to contain it on the top. a quick look before we go back to the surface. you see some of these submersible. these are small robotic devices underwater. important because all those pictures ...

Of disaster. >> all they have some dos is pick up the phone and tell them what to do. the fact that they are not is because the laws of nature and the laws of physic don't respond to 30-second sound bites. you have got to know exactly what to do and you have got to have the engineering and technology available some do it. >> reporter: that last lawmaker referring to president obama. if he had better ideas all he had to do was call up the head of bp, but he hasn't done that. lamar mckay defended the oil company's shared disaster response plan say sk it has bent basis for anything good that has ...

>> he took a ferry over to the island, a chance to see the oil in the water up close and also take a look at the containment effort. the white house trying to show the nation that the nation is on top of the situation in the gulf. >> reporter: president obama, back in the gulf, listening, talking tough. >> we're going to continue to hold bp and other parties accountable for the disaster that they created. >> a hard push after weeks of chrissism from some of the president's closest allies that he didn't come out of the gate fast or hard enough. >> they ramped it up and response has improved, bu...

Our top story at the bottom of the hour, president obama is back in the gulf region to survey the damage and talk about containment effort for the oil disaster. he will address the nation tuesday night. he meets with b.p. executives wednesday. residents of the gulf states continue to criticize b.p. for its inability to stop the spill and the delay in processing claims for damages to businesses and livelihoods. correspondent steve harrigan reports now there is another reason people are upset. >> b.p. clean-up crews came under scrutiny for the schedules, with some working 20 minutes each hour, r...