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Long. we've been waiting to hear what malaysian officials believe about this. they said, of course, there needs to be much more confirmation right now before hopes get too high. there are planes flying overhead to get a closer look. there are naval vessels, surface vessels headed to that region right now to get as close as they can. that will take some time to get there, maybe even days to get there by sea. but right now, the planes have been flying overhead and are now flying back to perth, australia, which is the closest land point. >> some of the difficulties that officials are telling us t...

You have the prime minister of australia saying that this is credible. on the other hand, some people are cautioning this could be debris from containerships. how optimistic are you that this could be the debris from the airline? >> i wouldn't dare -- that is so far beyond my ken, i would be remiss in trying to give you an estimate. let's hope that we have some definitive action for the families, but as far as whether this is credible or not, i leave that to the people on scene. >> and just very briefly, how difficult will the next 24 hours be? you heard conditions there are treacherous. >> th...

Either a permanent kill for this blowout or on the other hand make the problem much, much worse. so it's important that we all pay attention. clearly, the safest thing to do would be to reconnect the blowout preventers up to the surface vessels, open the valves, relieve the pressure on the well bore, connect the relief well, run that casing, and do a bottom kill. that's what they should be doing. that's the safest thing and most people agree it is. >> all right. so we have an animation dealing with some of the seepage near the oil well but experts think it is another well to blame. there are t...

That apparently could take between five days and a few weeks and then your other option that they've been talking about is the static kill shooting mud into the existing cap, the cap that's holding the oil in place. >> right. >> would you risk that? >> i don't think so. i think the static kill will put more pressure down the well bore. everybody knows that. and it could indeed compromise the integrity of the existing well bore which is already probably compromised. that's exactly what happened with the initial top kill attempt. the safest thing to do is open things back up, connect it to surfa...

>> dispersance are certainly an issue. they have their own inherent toxicity, much more mild than the oil itself, but the combination of the oil and the dispersant actually has a combined cumulative toxicity that's more than the sum of the individual toxicity. so there's questions about whether to use the dispersant at depth in the first place and on the surface as well, but the other thing i think going on this morning that they installed this brand new capping stack and it sprung a leak within a couple of hours of it being used, i think bp can now also stand for bad plumbers. i think it real...