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We have to look at for who they are. this is a felon company. they have shown nothing but history of lying to us from day one. day one we knew that we had a catastrophe. >> well, let's go back to bernard charbonnet has a real problem on his hands. you have unemployed hard-working people who have done nothing wrong but do their job and now they're stuck. the fish rots from the top, as i think michael dukakis used to say, if the fish is rotting from the top and you've got bp and other corporations not being responsible in terms of safety, not following good management protocols, i don't blame th...

History of lying to us from day one. day one we knew that we had a catastrophe. >> well, let's go back to bernard charbonnet has a real problem on his hands. you do have a problem. you have unemployed hard-working people who have done nothing wrong except do their job and they're stuck. the fish rots from the top, as i think michael dukakis used to say and the question is if the fish is rotting from the top and you've got bp and other corporations not being responsible in terms of safety, not following good management protocols, i don't blame things on machines and blowout preventers, i blame ...

First thing they're going to see is they'll start losing fluid or drilling mud from the relief well and they'll be prepared to do that and that mud will start entering the blowing out well bore and what it will do is seek the same path that the oil is flowing. if they can get close to the formation where the oil is and start adding mud to the oil at that point, the mud is heavier. it's more dense. it generates more pressure than the oil does. as you start mixing the mud in with the oil, that mud will follow the same path up the well bore and out to the sea floor or up production systems and as...

Its drill pipe to create an electric ro roe magnetic signal locate the metal casing of the original well used to determine which direction to proceed the directional surveys have a little element of error in them so in the deeper you go the big ert error gets. >> if a hurricane does approach the spill area the rig might have to be evacuated. >> the entire time period we would have to abandon the site, go to a safe haven and come back. it could be a total of 14 days. >> reporter: once the wells intersect it'll take at least several days for drilling mud and then cement to be poured down the rel...

They can have magnetic sensors on them, they certainly have temperature sensors. so i think that they will be able to hit the target. >> one expert said to me, i don't know if this is overblown or not, that there is still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation. if the rocks get moved, this thing could really explode and they're sitting on a billion potential barrels of oil at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. is that a real concern or is that just out of the question unrealistic? >> well, i've heard concerns about the structural integrity of the well. in particular,...