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>> let's talk about the situation from your assessment there. what did you see and how does it look? >> well, it's a huge spill. it's probably already, as of two days ago, bigger than all the spills associated with katrina and receipt a. at the present flow rate, it would equal the volume of the exxon valdez in about 38 more days. it's a major event, so we're very concerned. the big question is when is the flow going to be able to be stopped? >> why is that still a question, senator vitter? what is it that keeps it from being able to be stopped? where is the complication? where is the confusio...

Shoreline effort. >> senator, would that, then, though, leave bp off the hook financially? >> no. that, obviously, shouldn't be the case. i'm saying do that in terms of operations without changing anything with regard to responsibility and liability. i'm confident there is a way to do that legally. nobody is arguing to change the situation regarding bp's responsibility or liability. i'm talking about operational decisions. >> right. and, senator, i want to ask you, your constituents there who work in the fishing industry, i know that louisiana, the fisheries there, they are largely responsible...

Will it be enough to stop the damage? we'll discuss the clean-up efforts with david vidder. also efforts to track a very big problem.

Police. and parents are being urged to stop using more than 40 over-the-counter children's medicine. children's tylenol, tylenol plus, motrin, zyrtek and been drill have all been recalled because they reportedly contain small particles. president obama will be heading to the gulf coast in the next 48 hours to witness the oil spill there. officials are pressing british petroleum to do more to shut off that oil and contain that oil slick. crews are working to corral or burn off the oil before it sat rates the fragile gulf ecosystems. david vitter toured that coastline yesterday, and senator,...

There. so the question is, is british petroleum not properly planned for an event like this, or some sort of accident? >> well, anything like this is certainly very unlikely, but it obviously happened. and we need to figure out how. there are multiple close-off valves and close-off structures in any huge platform like this, and so what this means is there was massive failure. and obviously a big, big part of the investigation that's going on is to figure out how that massive multiple levels of failure could happen, because this is supposed to be shut down as soon as the bottom of the gulf floo...