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We know and we have the green light now to proceed with the well integrity test. so, they have stopped collecting, i guess this means that they have stopped collecting oil on the top, is that right? >> yes. they have stopped the ships that were sucking the oil from down below through very long pipes, a mile deep, all of the way down to the bottom of the blowout preventer, and they had attached lines, hoses, if you will to the blowout preventer, and to the choke and the kill valves down below and sucking the oil to the top and not letting it go into the ocean. clearly some coming out of the top...

I was just down there last week, and there's a sense there that people who make their living off an actual environment from working with a natural environment, there's a lot of despair. there's -- this is 13 times more oil, according to the estimates, than the "exxon valdez" released. it's being released a mile deep, as everyone knows by now. the normal processes that break down oil, the sun, the waves, the microbes, nobody knows how well they're going to work because the ocean is layered, and a lot of this oil we expect, and fear, is going to stay down for a long time. >> fred, fred, we just ...

In now and do something to conserve this precious resource. and i think that's what we can do now. >> jeff: is an oil spill like this to someone like you, is it heartbreaking? or is it. >> yes. >> jeff: it is? >> it's heartbreaking. it's heartbreaking to see. but when you're drilling a mile deep, and, you know, with these kind of situations, we have to go further and further to get the oil. you know, we'll never run out of oil. we really won't. we'll go broke trying to get to it and go into more and more dangerous situations. the tarsans. what does that cost? we can get to oil there is nothing...

In now and do something to conserve this precious resource. and i think that's what we can do now. >> jeff: is an oil spill like this to someone like you, is it heartbreaking? or is it. >> yes. >> jeff: it is? >> it's heartbreaking. it's heartbreaking to see. but when you're drilling a mile deep, and, you know, with these kind of situations, we have to go further and further to get the oil. you know, we'll never run out of oil. we really won't. we'll go broke trying to get to it and go into more and more dangerous situations. the tarsans. what does that cost? we can get to oil there is nothing...

>> all i can say we won't stop trying, we're going to come up with more ap get this thing before the relief well gets down and we will keep trying. >> now, the long-term fix still remains at that second relief well, but again, juliet, that could take up to three months. >> well, i guess the billion dollar question, million dollar question, any idea when they might get some control of the situation? >> yeah, you know, there are just so many variables to be completely honest with you, they hope that they have a good handle on the situation, sometime next week. again, they're working in 5,000 fee...