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And hope for a good-news outcome on this. the drilling of the relief well represents the best hope of stopping the gulf oil leak. we've been telling you that for months. but it's a process with a lot of technical difficulties. >> the whole idea of drilling down through a mile of owe slun water and then two miles of rock and sand and seabed, look as we dive down here and contemplate what we're talking about. you're going through all of this, all in the hopes of getting something about the size of a dinner plate. that's how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where they're trying to hit i...

79 days. they've tried a giant containment box, top kill, top hat. they've been planning all week to hook up a third tanker to siphon off more oil. but choppy seas is stopping that from happening as well. the only real hope of a long-term solution relies on drilling relief wells and killing it. as a neuro surgeon, it's annoying when someone says it isn't brain surgery, but it's close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what we're talking about. you're going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitti...

Killing it. as a neuro surgeon, it's annoying when someone says it isn't brain surgery, but in this case, it's close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what we're talking about. you're going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitting something about the size of a dinner plate. that's how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where they're trying to hit it. that's a massive technological challenge. so what if they miss? then what? well, for starters, they can try again. these are the relief wel...

When you go into the store you don't knowed soy beans are genetically modified. now there's a movement afoot genetically altered salmon could get this on your dinner plate. >> aqua bounty, what they want to do is combine the sha nook salmon because it has some sort of, i don't know, important growth hormone with something called an ocean pout. that's like-- >> pouty lips. >> yeah, the ocean pout, a fish, and the chinook salmon and make a uber fish and grow to its size in 18 months as opposed to three years. >> look at that, it's called transgenic salmon and thinking about doing it in terms of ...

Closing in on the well pipe and the second is just shy of 10,000 feet. while the first well is ahead of schedule neither will be ready until august because the deeper they get the harder it is to drill. they're aiming at a pipe the width of a dinner plate, miles below the surface. this is clearly no easy task. we're learning more about the deaths of two oil recovery workers today. a 55-year-old charter boat captain who was working for bp on the cleanup died of a gunshot wound apparently self-inflicted. admiral thad allen announced his death today along with the death of another recovery worker...