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79 days. they've tried a giant containment box, top kill, top hat. they've been planning all week to hook up a third tanker to siphon off more oil. but choppy seas is stopping that from happening as well. the only real hope of a long-term solution relies on drilling relief wells and killing it. as a neuro surgeon, it's annoying when someone says it isn't brain surgery, but it's close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what we're talking about. you're going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitti...

Killing it. as a neuro surgeon, it's annoying when someone says it isn't brain surgery, but in this case, it's close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and contemplate what we're talking about. you're going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitting something about the size of a dinner plate. that's how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where they're trying to hit it. that's a massive technological challenge. so what if they miss? then what? well, for starters, they can try again. these are the relief wel...

Spill to reach a trickle. we're all waiting for that point. what some would call downplaying has not been exception. take a look. >> somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 barrels. >> you're sticking with approximately 5,000 barrels a day? >> i think that's a good range. i don't know the precise number, but i think it's somewhere around that number and that's been both our estimate and that of the unified command that government agencies are working with. >> 5,000 barrels a day, we've always said it was an estimate all of us came together to make. >> for a long time, he was sticking with 1,000 barr...

Government agencies are working with. >> 5,000 barrels a day, we've always said it was an estimate all of us came together to make. >> for a long time, he was sticking with 1,000 barrels. the last three of those intervi interviews were done shortly after bp released video, video they had been looking at for weeks of the leaking pipe. mr. suttles was talking of that 5,000 barrel oil immediately after a purdue university professor looked at a 30-second clip of it and estimated it at 30,000 barrels, which turned out to be pretty accurate because the government says it's 60,000 barrels leaking a d...

Heck, we'll see you in court. probably not going to get there but those are some of the issues. with prospect of drilling relief well still months away, some say bp is ignoring a much quicker solution. christopher brownfield is a former nuclear submarine officer saying they should blow up the well burying the leaking pipe under tons of rock. a nuclear scientists and not advocating nuclear but conventional explosives to fix this. explain. >> i'm more of a generalist than anything else. i have worked in oil and i have worked in nuclear submarines underwater and advocating a conventional demoli...