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Toxic black filth. the heat coming off this fire is incredible. it's melted much of the ground around the well. the air, it is thick and foul. it really tastes terrible. it makes your eyes water. this is the poisonous atmosphere that people in this part of iraq have been breathing in and living with for months. there's now a desperate effort to fix the wells. but the lead engineer tells me it's a difficult complex process. he says you can't just put the fire out because that would release vast amounts of deadly fumes. first, earth-moving equipment is used to contain the fire and channel the fl...

This apocalyptic vision. the group blew up and set fire to 19 oil wells near the town of gayatta. perhaps the hope it would provide cover from air power above. the fires have burned since augustest, lowering the sky, concealing the sun, layering the earth and people's lungs with toxic black filth. >> the heat coming off is terrible. the air is thick and foul. it really tastes terrible. it makes your eyes water. this is the poisonous atmosphere that people in this part of iraq have been breathing in and living with for months. >> reporter: there's now a desperate effort to fix the wells, but le...

Pieces. >> very early in the process, in fact before construction began, the lead engineer was very concerned about the bridge, so he began to help initiate studies by the professor at the university of washington that began to closely examine the bridge's movements. >> remedies are attempted before and after the bridge opens. >> they added cable tie downs at each end of the bridge on the approach spans. they did a good job of holding the approach spans in place. but the rest of the bridge across the center span still moved a lot. >> professor farquharson also issues an in-depth bridge studies...

It literally shook it self to pieces. >> very early in the process, in fact before construction began, the lead engineer was very concerned about the bridge, so he began to help initiate studies by the professor at the university of washington that began to closely examine the bridge's movement. >> remedies are attempted before and after the bridge opens. >> they added cable tie downs at each end of the bridge on the approach spans. they did a good job of holding the approach spans in place. but the rest of the bridge across the center span still moved a lot. >> professor farquharson also issu...

The lead engineer was very concerned about the bridge, so he began to help initiate studies by the professor at the university of washington that began to closely examine the bridge's movement. >> remedies are attempted before and after the bridge opens. >> they added cable tie downs at each end of the bridge on the approach spans. they did a good job of holding the approach spans in place. but the rest of the bridge across the center span still moved a lot. >> professor farquharson also issued an in-depth bridge study and presents two more options to stabilize the bridge, just five days befor...