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Just imagine one of these. what you have is a pipe less than a foot in diameter spewing oil under enormous pressure. should have automatically shut this down, but it did not. bp has been trying to fix it with robots but no luck yet. so, what do you do now? well, one of the possibilities that bp is preparing for is to lower an undersea collection device. for simplicity, just think of this as a huge inverted funnel. this is way oversimplified but it gives you an idea. it captures this oil before it loosens and spreads out, and push it up to a barge. this has been done before but never at such a ...

To the oil getting on the foeters of the birds, getting on the plankton. the plankton is eaten by everyone else and then you have a food chain disaster. already lawsuits being filed against bp by some of the fishermen in the southeastern part of louisiana because they know their livelihood is over. >> things continue to happen throughout the hour. if they do, wheel check back with you. >> with that oil fast approaching, experts to volunteers are scrambling to try to minimize damage to wetlands and wildlife as chad was talking about. oil engineers and others are racing to try to stop the flow. ...

No, seriously, where are you guys going? ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! ni hao! [ female announcer ] the new classroom. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. updating tonight's breaking news -- oil from the ruptured offshore bp well approaching

Does he have a point in that at all? >> of course. they're also hired by british petroleum. both of them are going to be culpable for this. the problem is, we've had a lot of drill, baby, drill. and it's spill, baby, spill. people have been telling american people that offshore drilling is dangerous. what we've heard is, oh, it's changed. there's new technology. we're now green. british petroleum's logo said they're for beyond petroleum. what's new energy about this? it's dirty oil, devastating communities in louisiana and killing some of our richest wildlife areas. some of these wildlife plac...

When bp plans any activity, drilling or otherwise, in addition to all the required permitting for our plans we also carry out full environmental impact assessments, examining our planned activities in detail, and potential impacts on the environment and doing all we can to minimize them. the detailed planning clu include plans for response. what are your thought? >> all have you to do is look alaska, and here in texas 2005, texas city. british petroleum where people died. british petroleum will be responsible for ten national wildlife threats of a cornucopia of beaches, salt marshes, it's the ...