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Were just up at the science and technology and engineering and math school up in seattle a couple days ago. we're looking at the statistics when it just comes to test score rankings, and china ranks first in science, they rank first in math, the u.s. 23rd. you look overall, america 31st compared to china at first. it gets worse. 70% of engineers with ph.d.s graduating from u.s. universities -- i'll repeat that, 70% of the engineers with ph.d.s graduating from american universities are foreign-born, and as we've discussed before the immigration policies in this country too often force these ver...

One of the teams is here in woods hole and we talked to them about how they reached their numbers. >> you know -- so. >> reporter: he is a deep water expert the government is counting on to measure the amount of oil spilling into the gulf. he once sent this vehicle seven miles under the ocean's surface. in his lab you'll find robots like these that operate deep in the sea. for the first time, he was asked to use his engineering skills to measure an oil spill that was initially estimated to be 5,000 barrels of oil a day. >> i think that, you know, the initial estimates were just that, they were...