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Bp who leased and operated the rig said it spent $350 million so far in clean-up and other costs tied to the spill. again and again, engineers have tried to shut off the gushing oil. nothing has worked. the latest attempt on friday. they lowered that giant four-story container over the leak to try to cap it but ice like crystals apparently doomed the effort. tom joins us to explain it and the next plans to contain it. >> remember this is happening in a very deep, dark and cold place. well below freezing, depending on how you look at it. so tiny crystals of ice and gas called methane hydrite ha...

Tom joins us to explain it and the next plans to contain it. >> remember this is happening in a very deep, dark and cold place. well below freezing, depending on how you look it a. so tiny crystals of ice and gas called methane hydrite have been rising all along. here's what happened. when the dome was dropped this teeny crystals started clinging to each other and the sides of the dome inside and gradually, they built up so much that they clogged the entire nozzle here so that the oil could not be funneled out to the surface. the question that you would ask is, what are they? well, this is wha...

>> remember this is happening in a very deep, dark and cold place. well below freezing, depending on how you look it a. so tiny crystals of ice and gas called methane hydrite have been rising all along. here's what happened. when the dome was dropped this teeny crystals started clinging to each other and the sides of the dome inside and gradually, they built up so much that they clogged the entire nozzle here so that the oil could not be funneled out to the surface. the question that you would ask is, what are they? well, this is what they are. a thousand feet or more beneath the ocean's surfa...