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Between transparency and protecting a lot of what is clearly meant to be classified and top secret. so it will be interesting to see how they're able to strike that balance, because i think it will set a standard moving forward. >> we're out of time. guaranteed my visitors will be back. michael lohan exclusive tomorrow. his daughter lindsay scheduled to report to jail. he'll be with us tomorrow to talk all about that. right now, anderson cooper and ac 360. >> larry thanks very much. breaking news tonight, bp says the company is studying a novel way of killing this well once and for all. it...

Back into the choke and kill lines, back into the blowout preventer that died, that didn't work, and now that mud, still heavy isn't going to go that way, but that way, because it can fill the void, it can fill the oil and the gas. the problem is. and the reason why they didn't think about this before, is they thought the number for psi was going to be 8,000. there's no way you can take 8,000 psi of mud, shove it -- or 8,005 whatever the number would be greater than that, and shove it back down into the well, without bursting lines. you could have more problems trying this. well, we know the n...

The way it works, chad explained it extremely well. in the first case, we had pressure that was pushing it out. in this indication, the pressure is static, if you can get the mud into the wellbore, that has 6,800 pounds per square inch into it. once you get the mud into that vessel, the weight of the mud will fall to the bottom of that static pressure control. and once it gets down there and starts to build up, it will displace the oil from the bottom up and when it does that, it's heavier than the oil and gas, as chad pointed out. and as it does that, it will actually kill the pressure. and t...

Was pumping mud down to plug the leak, but now the same pipes will suck up oil and bp claims it can contain another 400,000 gallons a day. this system can't capture enough oil so other ships are skimming it off the surface. but as they head towards one beach, the constantly shifting oil slick splashes into another, so the coast guard commander ordered a change in strategy. skimmers need to get further offshore to collect the oil that's not being captured above the well. >> we're finding out we're getting to a point we need to fight this shore between the shore and offshore well where the oil i...

The containment cap itself. but a bp official told us it will take a few days to know if they're sending better information. quote, it's a complex operation, and how effective it will be, we don't know. it's not as if they'll plug thissen sores in and get readings rights away. bp says it's capturing 600,000 gallons every day, and starting tuesday, plans to rejigger that top kill system. now, it didn't work when the ship was pumping mud down to plug the leak. but now the same pipes will suck up oil, and bp claims it can contain another 400,000 dwlons gallons a day. other ships are skimming off ...