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To develop a different containment system easier to disconnect and hook back up if a storm like this or future ones try to interrupt their work. are there a lot of challenges to a plan like that or could than easily facilitated? >> well, they probably gain some experience over the last two months in this operation. so going in that direction is certainly the appropriate thing to be doing so they could be prepared if the storm comes they're way. >> what about the relief wells, not scheduled to be completed until midst august? we are 69 days into this disaster. are they on an appropriate time co...

Weeks that could, and the coast guard admiral says the efforts to contain the oil gusher could be interrupted for two weeks if that were to happen. what would that mean for the containment effort? >> well, alex, it would be a gigantic problem. when the storm like this comes in the gulf, it's really necessary to evacuate all the men and women who are working out there. and it takes about five days to get them off and five days to get them back. and so those two drilling rigs will be basically shut down and not drilling. and the containment ships will not be containing the oil. >> okay. now bp i...

At the pictures. they look different to us this morning. so -- we got our experts on it trying to figure out what was going on and we just learned the discovery horizon removed the containment cap. i want to go to professor overton. what's going on under water? >> a lot more oil going into the environment. that's what you expect when you remove the containment cap. >> they are saying that -- they are going to check the cap. if none, they will reinstall the cap. how much of a concern is it? >> it is a big concern because -- the containment system would remove, you know, upwards of 50% of the oi...

New numbers on how much bp is paying out to victims. it's paying $104 million to resident as long the gulf coast, after receiving 64,000 claims so far. let's get an update on the effort to contain the gushing oil. nbc's charles hadlock is live in louisiana. it was shut down temporarily this within. what's the situation now? >> reporter: they have some flaring nozzles on the vessels up there burning off some of the oil as it comes up out of the containment device at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. yesterday one of the those clogged up and it slowed it down a while. it slowed down also becau...

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