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Petroleum industry has been concentrated on drilling wells, not so concentrated on, you know, capturing, dealing with well has have blown out. but the thung that i think they can do well is drill wells. and hit small targets that are far away. so directional drilling and acoustic imaging, i think they can do this. they were initially planning to drill one well and then at the government's insistence, planned to drill two relief wells. so i think between those two that they'll hit the target. >> and the target, just to be precise, is about the size of a dinner plate, is that right? >> yeah. tha...

Concentrated on drilling wells, and not so concentrated on the capturing, dealing with the wells blown out, but the thing they have that they can do well is drill wells, and hit small targets far away, so directional drilling and acoustic imagining, and i think that they can do this. they were initially planning to drill one well and at the government's insistence drill two relief wells and between the two, they will hit the target. >> and the target to be precise the size of a dinner plate, is that right? >> yeah, yeah, that is correct. >> so it not that easy, if you are looking for a needle ...

The president himself said it could be for the balance of his administration this gulf disaster could have an enormous effect just like the 9/11 incident had for the balance of the bush administration. we'll see how -- >> it's going to be a defining moment for his presidency. >> oh, yeah. i totally agree. this is -- i'm really worried, jack, as you know and i've made no secret about that. as bad as it is now this thing could get a whole lot worse. >> oh, yeah. they're drilling a second well they hope is going to solve the problem. what if something goes wrong with that one? >> they're going af...

Cameras have not been allowed until now, a highly skilled screw gets a drill down and has 5,000 feet left to go. and their target? a hole smaller than a dinner plate. but it's a point of pride to hit it on the first try. >> it weighs on my mind, and i know it weighs on a lot of peoples' minds that this is something that we have to do right and we got to do it safe and we have to do it the first time. >> reporter: the work, long hours in the shearing heat, for the most part has been thankless. few people are saying anything good about the oil industry at the moment, and they press on in extreme...

We are dealing with a situation where the spill is at such depth and pressure, trying to cap it is like trying to hit a dinner plate with a golfball from two miles away according to akaki, a physicist. that is the situation now. >> david: maybe the reason the president isn't doing these things is he wants to put it on b.p. and doesn't want his own hands dirty. >> he doesn't want to take the blame himself. there is so much finger-pointing going on. republicans want to blame the democrats and the democrat, the republicans. the truth, i believe, as a nation we were totally unprepared for this. we...