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Here's a view of the slick from outer space, showing what that oil is is near. see that area along the louisiana coast, that's a wildlife sanctuary. but the danger isn't just to the animals and plants on the shore. the waters that have been fouled already are the home of sea turtles, also sperm whales, porpoises and tuna. today, the coast guard announced they may set the oil on fire t coast guard may set the oil on fire tomorrow, saying it may be better for the marine and animal life than the danger from the slick. the coast guard has deployed 49 vessels, a mile down, underwater robots are try...

Valve 5,000 feet below where a massive oil rig used to be. it's spilling at the equivalent of 42,000 gallons a day. it spilled a week ago, last tuesday, when a rig called the deep water horizon caught fire in an explosion that still is unexplained. the rig sank two days later. 11 crew members were missing. they have not been found and are presumed dead. the misery of the loss of lives is now compounded by the well gushing out of well head nearly a mile below the water's surface. the coast guard and owners and less cis of the well, transocean and the oil giant, bp, are racing to try to contain ...

The well head can be shut down. that's why we make efforts to shut that well, so we can stop the flow of oil from that well head, or at least reduce the amount of flow, so every effort is being made to focus on that, as well as continue the oil removal operations on the surface. >> commander, i will say as a opinion who doesn't know very much about this technology, what i'm worried about is that we've allowed the technology for drilling in very deep water to get ahead of the technology for zealing with safety issues, in very deep water. some of the things you're doing, especially trying to cap...

Degrade into the ocean. and we've also done a lot of skimming operations, boats, vessels that are out there, skimming the oil, removing the oil from the water, and then transferring it to some type of temporary storage for it to be brought to shore or recycled later on, and then we've also toying around with, or thinking about doing some on water burning operations as you mention mentioned. >> in terms of the onwater burning operations, those sound incredibly environmentally risky too. what's the thinking behind, i guess, the weighing out the lesser of evils here in terms of why you would set ...

Surface, we will still continue to employ the chemical disbursing application to also limit the amount of oil or change the oil that's on the surface. in addition to trying to employ the on water fire application. and legal really, we're not going to be lighting the entire slick on fire, we basically coral a portion of the oil away from the main slick, and that's what we try to burn, not the entire slick itself. >> how optimistic are you that the actual well head can be capped, it can be stopped at the source. the thing that's upsetting is that this isn't a vessel, this isn't the exxon valdez,...