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And if you can't you attack it on the surface and we have done that with mechanical means of skimming and a in situ% and dispersents but it is difficult for the surface ships to operate in the current weather. >> chris: and at this point does it looks like the blowout preventer is not going to work and if they'll have to find a solution that will take weeks or months? >> it will take heavy duty forensics and i'll ask secretary salazar to comment but there are four or five different devices that can actuate inside the blowout preventer and one can sheer the pipe and one can crimp the pipe and a...

Completed. >> gregg: do federal officials know why the blowout preventer, the mechanism that is supposed to close the leak, why it didn't in the first place. >> reporter: it's a huge mystery and the head of the coast guard, the point man for the president, thad allen said they don't know why the blowout mechanism sit in work and they need to find out. here's his answer to that: >> i think we'll have to find out why it didn't actuate, it is supposed to be a fail safe mechanism and there will be an investigation conducted between men rales management service and the u.s. coast guard at the direc...

And if you can't you attack it on the surface and we have done that with mechanical means of skimming and a in situ% and dispersents but it is difficult for the surface ships to operate in the current weather. >> chris: and at this point does it looks like the blowout preventer is not going to work and if they'll have to find a solution that will take weeks or months? >> it will take heavy duty forensics and i'll ask secretary salazar to comment but there are four or five different devices that can actuate inside the blowout preventer and one can sheer the pipe and one can crimp the pipe and a...