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Tools to be able to integrate all of those pieces into a whole that's efficient and environmentally-compatib environmentally-compatible. >> we appreciate you giving us the rundown today. fascinating stuff. again peter coen working on this with nasa. we appreciate you being here. i need too turn quickly to the white house. today's briefing, we haved that allen who is in charge of the gulf response, he's giving the briefing from the white house today. >> distance of 11,641 feet below the sea floor. they're going through a series of operations which we call ranging, they're into their fourth cy...

Could bring more oil on shore. not news they want to hear. jon: that's awful. jonis dean, thank you. >> okay. patti ann: it is day 70 of the disaster in the gulf. our gulf coast team took this exclusive video. pouries of this massive oil slick are now threatening to hit grand isle, louisiana. and could have a major impact on port fourchon and other communities to the east and west. meanwhile bp says the cost of its gulf response has now reached more than 2 1/2 billion dollars. the company coes saysis received $80,000 claims. the tourism industry is struggling on the gulf coast now and that's f...

Anchoring system down. we are looking towards potentially next tuesday bringing an additional production vessel online. that will get us to the previously briefed 53,000 barrel a day capacity. that's notwithstanding the removal of the containment cap today for the issue that i've just talked about. on a more somber note, we had two deaths reported on people who were involved in this response earlier today. one was an accident regarding a swimming pool -- swimming event, and another one was a vessel of opportunity operator in gulf shores, mississippi. our thoughts and prayers go out to their fa...

Goal. l landin donovan scored it, the response was overwhelming. and obviously, the response where you are right now was overwhelming, as well. as folks start to stream out of the bar. and i think what we have is a situation -- we get out of this group, we move on, regardless of what happens in the england game, correct? >> reporter: that's right. and the u.s. will play either certain i can't , ghana, germany. germany may be the strongest. is the u.s. too exhausted after this? they had to use every inch of energy to get that goal. anything can happen, of course, in football or soccer. i believ...

He also talked a little bit about what may have happened. they had noticed that there was a gas rising through that vent that prevents those hydrates from forming, and what it looks like is one of the remote operated vehicles bumped into that vent and may have now caused a problem with the containment cap. and if you remember, back -- those hydrates were a problem with the first dome. >> yeah, those crystals, right? these ice crystals? >> exactly. exactly. and the first dome didn't have the vents which would allow -- which would keep the hydrates from forming. that's why this dome, you know, h...