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Continues to spill, what the daily rate of flow is, but the coast guard's going with the estimate of about 210,000 gallons a day which would make it at least two million gallons of sweet crude in the gulf of mexico. jon: any hope of kind of kinking the pipeline to shut it down? >> reporter: bp continues to hope that maybe today is the day they actually have some success. they're using remotely operated vehicles, basically robotic claws 5,000 feet below the surface controlled by humans up top. and as we have with seen those underwater video clips, it has failed miserably to pinch the pipeline b...

Team fox coverage in venice, louisiana. phil, if they can target the leak at the source, that has to be better for the environment in the long term, right? >> bp certainly thinks so. for instance, the shown those are a lower lethal talks talks miss city using what the bp experts and engineers call the dome collection method. this involves having a ship on top of the ocean, the gulf of mexico, dropping down this 75 con container over top of which the dome which is aattached to a hose which will go 5,000 feet back up to that awaiting barge. the idea is you drop this down right above, so it's hov...