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Help spray a chemical to try to contain the oil leak. >> kelly: you were just talking about the coastguard. that was going to the core of my next question about what the coastguard is doing to work on containing that spill. also, is there an investigation going on in terms of what caused accident and if anyone like any company, like bp, is responsible for this? >> molly: the common can't that was just said says there are a number of agencies are involved and trying to find out how this happened. here is more. >> in is an unprecedented event. what you have are dual jurisdictions, the coastguard...

Minerals management service on the floor of the ocean and coast guard has equities at the top and we're all committed as far as recovering the oil. >> how do you get down a mile deep into the gulf of mexico and stop that loss of 5,000 barrels a day? how do you cap it off? >> we're trying to a couple of things, chris. first of all, when the incident occurred and the mobile drilling unit sunk, there should have been an actuation of a blowout preventer. it's a valve that automatically shuts. that obviously did not close or it only closed partially. the challenge is to try to stop the leak around ...

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We have visual where the leak source is and the riser pipe that comes out of the wellhead, and we're able to monitor that amount. but as that oil is discharged, we're monitoring it daily through satellite imagery and also overflight, but we have great weather and sea conditions today, we've been applying application of dispersent to break up the oil in the area, it helps break the oil up official, we have skilling, have vessels that are doing skimming and oil recovery operations. thus far, we've recovered 260,000 gallons of oily water mixture that have been recovered. megyn: wow. commander, yo...