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Feds are bringing down multiple language experts to the gulf because they have to. the gulf has always been that way. you can walk down the streets of new orleans and hear some form of french that they don't teach in high schools, but this is vietnamese cambodian needs and the approaching storm, andrea. we have a weather situation that is unique. there may not be as much moisture rising from the sea to fuel a tropical systems as usual because of the oil on the surfa surface. this is new scien and new meteorologist. how does a tropical storm form in the gulf when the gulf is full of oil as oppo...

Containment vessel ready to go if this one doesn't work. so it's going to be very careful. it's going to take a couple days for them to lower that down over the top of the largest leak that they have. they have two leaks left to cap. this will be going over the largest one. if they are successful, they hope to capture 80% to 85% of the leaking oil. >> and as you said, david, if they're successful, and that's the key phrase here. i guess the physics of it are that oil is lighter than water. they put this down and the oil floats to the top. they think they'll actually be able to get that oil out...

The plan that bp is going to try. they tried, david, to drop this concrete box over the hole to contain the oil flow and have it siphoned up to the pipe of the surfa surface. that didn't work. >> reporter: well, they're still working on a variation of that system, that massive dome that they built to put in place, actually filled up with crystals that clogged it up. so they set it aside. their solution for this is to try a smaller dome. they're calling it a top hat. it's only about five feet tall, about four feet in diameter. so much, much smaller than that dome they were using before. but thi...