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Just wait until they're at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers i've spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels, until they're ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until they're intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and cement, are blowing out the well head, then slowly start closing the valves on the -- and the sheer rams on the stacking cap but not until then. it's sort...

Cement to go in to seal this thing off permanently, why not just wait until they're at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers i've spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels until they're ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until they're intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and cement, are blowing out the well head, then slowly start closing the valves on the -- and the s...

But you need to get a pod essentially down there, it's robotic and caps off that pipeline. the pipeline goes from the surface of the water to the seabed and then from the seabed about 13,000 feet below. so you're dealing with vast distances. they don't know exactly where the crack is. so you have to get a certain number of pods under there and then inject this liquid that they call a kill fluid to prevent any more leaking. >> so how long might this take? it sounds incredibly complicated. >> it depends on the weather. the coast guard has labeled this a very, very serious situation, a very serio...

Just wait until they're at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers i've spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels, until they're ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until they're intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and cement, are blowing out the well head, then slowly start closing the valves on the -- and the sheer rams on the stacking cap but not until then. it's sort...

They have to drill from the side. probably a quarter of a mile away or so. they'll drill down and then over and intersect the old well bore at its base where the cementing job was. and then they'll pump kill fluid in and ultimately pump in additional cement to seal off the formation, so the oil can't even get to the well. >> is it possible for anybody, anybody in our government, anybody in private industry, and academia, to actually understand at this point whether in fact this was a random catastrophic failure. or a systematic failure or a preventible event. is that even knowable right now? >...