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For the first time we can see the environmental catastrophe happening right now in the gulf of mexico. while talk and blame are flying back and forth on capitol hill, here in washington, this new video is underscoring the severity of the crisis, and possibly providing some important new clues about what we're all up against. let's go straight to cnn's brian todd. he's here with more on this story. there are other developments happening right now as well, brian. >> that's right, wolf, some significant developments today. we'll get to some of the house hearings later. but, first, the video you j...

Circumstances demands something. so i applaud them for making this attempt. i don't have a lot of faith in the fact it's going to work. there's a lot of complications. first of all they have land it over the wellhead and on bottom. i don't think it will work if it's suspended. the riser pipe is laying thousands of feet across the ocean floor and sticking out of the wellhead probably at a substantial height. they have to deal with that. if you can't get it over the wellhead it's a wasted effort. it's a mile deep, it's dark down there and they have today this with rov's, it's a complex operation...

Spill where it is leaking out of the pipe. >> have you found that source, admiral, or are you still looking for it? >> we found the source. there has been a lot of confusion over the last week or so about how much oil is coming out or when we knew about it. you need to understand that when that sunk, there was 5,000 feet of riser pipe between the wellhead and the vessel. the vessel is lying on its side about 1500 feet away from the wellhead and between that, 5,000 feet of riser pipe cripple pd along the floor. it took a couple of days to go down and find the sunken rig. over the next 72 hours,...

Feel that b.p. gave you accurate estimate which has now made your job tougher? >> i don't think there is any indication of that. maybe there are some facts that i'm not aware of. remember, we had 5,000 feet of riser pipe that had to be surveyed by an r.o.v. there doesn't appear to be a leak, because we have not seen all the sections of the pipe. this thing kind of revealed itself over several days. b.p. has provided us the live video feed from our rov into our command center. it is a matter of how the information unfolded and what we were able to see whether we were able to see it that caused ...

Wake of hurricane katrina. the oil slick in the waters off the gulf coast is already the size of puerto rico and growing larger by the minute. the first attempt to stop the rush of oil won't happen for at least a week. the oil is moving steadily from shore from louisiana to the florida panhandle. thad allen is the command and the of the u.s. coast guard. he met with the president when he traveled to the gulf on sunday. sir, thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> could you please update us at the top where the efforts are to try to stop this oil. as i understand it, the weather compli...