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Secretary nepal tano and salazar will conduct an investigation department much interior. this is an unprecedented event. you have dual purpose. coast guard over the vessel that was over it and connected by the riser pipe. we'll do that with total transparency. >> bp is hammered publicly and by the president and deservedly so . but does the government deserve criticism? homeland security did not rule it a pill of national significance until eight days after the explosion. >> the desination of spill of national significance was another step of the response. when the oil was first released we wen...

The costs of this deployment. the president obama also asked his advisor for homeland security, john brennan to hold a meeting yesterday to discuss the oil spill with top level cabinet members and included in that meeting which lasted over an hour, were homeland security secretary janet nab tanneau and interior secretary ken salazar, robert gates and epa administrator lisa jackson, the president has sent them to the gulf region to oversee the response to the oil spill. the commandant from the coast guard says a number of agencies are involved in the effort and are trying to stop the oil from s...

Contain that oil leak. >> gregg: and the coast guard working to contain the spill, of course, but what about the investigation that's going on? >> reporter: right. the commandant for this effort, says a number of agencies are involved here and they're trying to stop the oil from spilling, but they're also trying to figure out how this all happened. here is more. >> this is an unprecedented event and what you have are dual jurisdictions, minerals management service over the drilling operation, and the coast guard over the vessel that was moored over it and connected by the riser pipe. we will d...

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 act wags of a blow-out preventer. it's a valve this shuts, that obviously did not close or it only closed partially. the challenge is to try to stop the leak around that. they'll have to drill a relief well to stop the pressure. and in the meantime we're trying to deal with the leakage around the riser pipe. we're trying with remotely-operated vehicles to try to fix the blow-out preventer. bp is a...

The blowout preventers is a principal question and probably the underlying question we have at the national commission. >> last week i interviewed marvin odom, the president of shell in aspen, colorado, and he said there were multiple levels of preventive efforts that other companies including shell take, that when they take -- when they drill a well, they put in layers and layers of cementing before they open the pipe, the riser pipe and that bp did none of them. >> it is in view of most of the energy industry. virtually everybody i talked to has deep water drilling that this was a system tha...