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Government said, hello, bp, you need to do a lot better job of collecting a lot more. while we're waiting for bp's announcement of what their plan is now. the basic idea of what we have at this point, you have a pathway leading up to this drill ship all the way here at the top, this enterprise drill ship. now the next step is they're going to bring along something called the q 4,000. this is the blowout preventer way down here. they want to bring in something else to the surface. this could happen within days. it could happen as soon as tomorrow. this is a line up to something called the q4000...

Building in rockport. it was built about five years ago. designated hurricane proof. we are safe. we have a team of city employees, law enforcement. we've got people staged to be able to venture out and see what damage we can provide that there's no way we're letting anyone out right now. i don't know when we are going to be able to do that. >> jon: you are not likely to be able to send anyone out on rescue, are you? >> >> no, we've had a few incidents. residents trapped in their homes, where a tree fell on them and they can't get out. we've got someone else stranded in a vehicle. it's impossi...

Stuff you can buy off the shelves. >> we were looking at some of the blueprints for hutches made of corrugated tin with solar power panels on top and all sorts of crazy kits. what do you say to people who look at that and say it's crazy. >> no, it's not. there's a person that may be some of your viewers may be familiar with. buckman fuller. i've been a fan of his since i read operational manuals, spaceship earth when i was in sixth grade. that's my thing. i wanted to pick whereupon he left off. he revolutionized this by utilizing 21st century tools that haven't been applied in a way they shoul...

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Containment, but it will be much more than we have right now and capacity in excess of the flow rate. >> now containment is a good thing, but the idea here is to find a way to cap this well and to shut off that flow. the idea they want to make this hurricane proof. make this well hurricane proof because they'd have to disconnect all those containment devices on the surface if a storm does come through. so being able to make this cap work gives them the capability of not only shuth off at least temporarily the flow of this oil, but gives them that ability to be able to disconnect the connection...