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Remember that was a device that failed and allowed this disaster to happen in the first place. they're talking about setting one up, a new one down there to possibly stem the flow of oil. they're also looking at something called a top kill where they actually inject solid material into the pipe to essentially for lack of a technical term clog it up. but these all carry their own types of risks. and the biggest risk being it could actually make this worse than it already is. so they are trying to find a way to fix what they're doing with the dome so that they can continue with that their first ...

Once it gets to the seabed, the underwater remote control submarines will actually attach it down there and they'll attach that mile-long steel pipe so they can siphon the oil out of it. both bp, as well as the coast guard, are working under the assumption that this is not going to work. they say there are just too many varyuals -- variables, things like water push on the dome and oil pressure pushing up, as well as things getting clogged inside that siphon pipe. so they're working under that assumption but they've got their fingers crossed and they should find out sometime in the next 24 hour...

Fix that didn't work, along with static kill, would the bottom kill, top kill. >> the medical profession did a terrible job with public relations, i was a reporter in houston in the '70s, we found the chairman of textco at a time when people were lined up for gas and many people will remember that, odd and even days when you could get your tank filled up. he was filling up in the basement of the textco building. worst pr. they never get it. >> tony hayward, i want my life back and he's at a yacht race. >> jon: and lost in all of this, the fact there were 11 oil rig workers killed in that awful...

Fix that didn't work, along with static kill, would the bottom kill, top kill. >> the medical profession did a terrible job with public relations, i was a reporter in houston in the '70s, we found the chairman of textco at a time when people were lined up for gas and many people will remember that, odd and even days when you could get your tank filled up. he was filling up in the basement of the textco building. worst pr. they never get it. >> tony hayward, i want my life back and he's at a yacht race. >> jon: and lost in all of this, the fact there were 11 oil rig workers killed in that awful...

Suppression of the pressure inside the capping stack and basically have reached a static condition in the well that allows us to have high confidence that there will be no oil leaking into the environment and we have significantly improved our chances to finally kill the well with the relief wells when that does occur. >> today's success a sharp contrast to the long list of failed attempts to stop the well forethe first 87 days. you remember that list well. it's like a list of greatest hits. the blowout preventer, insertion tube, containment dome, top kill, junk shot, lmrp cap. it goes on and ...