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Failure of fail-safe equipment may have caused the explosion. right now, crews are waiting for a 100-ton concrete and steel dome to completely settle into the mud to contain all that gushing oil. nbc chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson is live for us in venice, louisiana. so ann, with a good morning, the containment efforts, how do things look so far? what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, so far, so good. alex, they were able to get that dome, first of all, into the water. and now it is settling on the sea floor bed, above the biggest leak down there. and so all of that i...

Failure of fail-safe equipment apparently is what caused that deadly explosion. right now crews are waiting for a 110-ton concrete and steel box to settle around that mud and the ruptured well to contain most of that gushing oil. correspondent ann thompson is live for us in venice, louisiana. ann, good morning to you. what's the latest on this containment effort? >> reporter: good morning, alex. as you said, the cruiser keeping a very close eye on that containment dome. it was placed over the leak site late yesterday afternoon. it is now settling into the sea floor, and so far things are going...