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Deep to build up this island. cost so far? about $1 billion. bp says if arctic ice floes, drilling from an island is safer than off a floating rig. b but environmentalists say it's a clever way of gaming the system. rebecca represents half a dozen environmental groups. >> if there were an oil spill, that oil is going into the ocean. it's not on land. so, this really is -- this is drilling in water. >> reporter: that's the hard of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32-acre pile of gravel mean bp's liberty island project should be subject to federal rules for drilling on land or...

Bp says if arctic ice floes, drilling from an island is safer than off a floating rig. but environmentalists say it's a clever way of gaming the system. rebecca represents half a dozen environmental groups. >> if there were an oil spill, that oil is going into the ocean. it's not on land. so, this really is -- this is drilling in water. >> reporter: that's the hard of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32-acre pile of gravel mean bp's liberty island project should be subject to federal rules for drilling on land or should it be subject to the more rigorous rules of offshore dr...

Leaves and you hear what he gets. >> what does it say they are reportedly going to name an american to replace him? >> yeah. they are definitely -- in some sense it makes a lot of sense because the places they have the biggest problems and need to make up with their community is in the u.s. it makes sense to have someone in there like robert dudley who would be the face of the company. i remember when he was driven out of russia. he was in charge of their operations there they basically revoked his visa because he was in a feud with the overlords in russia who are in charge of the russian arm ...

$4 billion profit on tuesday. that's only slightly less in the same quarter just a year ago. as for the well itself, a small fleet of ships are back at the site and preparing to resume work to finally kill the well. commander thad allen says a relief well could begin pumping oil into the well as soon as one week from today. our david mattingly is down at the gulf today. you just flew over the site. tell us what you saw. >> that's right, we flew over the site in a coast guard cargo plane, and we saw a lot of the pieces coming back together, most notably the drill rig that's going to be handli...

This is more similar to apollo 13 than exxon valdez. >> wow. >> krista? >> i wanted to ask you, how would you rate bp's cooperation? are they doing everything you need them to do? are they being as helpful as you would like? >> well, you know, there's been a lot of talk about the bp effort. bp is the responsible party, but quite frankly the united states coast guard are the responsible parties. we know our responsibility. everybody's been relentless. we've been relentless in our oversight. i've been to houston to meet with corporate executives. yesterday i flew out to the second relief drill r...