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Intense, it crushes a styrofoam cup to a fraction of its size. the missing plane is believed to be 4500 meters, nearly 15,000 feet down. >> it's flat and the saidment is silt. >> reporter: this will test the limits of the bluefin 21. >> patience, people need to have patients. >> reporter: he says one mission takes 24 hours. four hours of scan is data from the ocean floor. >> you see the traces of the outlines of the objects. >> reporter: his team also took this video of what the next step, the salvage phase would look like. under water robots would pull

>> and the rio grande is overflowing in texas, more than 3 feet above flood stage in some areas and is still rising, causing widespread flood damage and putting lives in danger. we begin this hour with a gulf oil crisis deep below the gulf surface, bp's under water robots, switching out a containment kcap. this is a live look at bp's under water camera and the new cap is designed to capture all or most of all of the leaking oil. in the meantime, the old cap is now off. allowing oil to gush freely into the gulf. jonathan serrie is live in grand isle, louisiana with more on that, hi, jonathan....

>> brian: this is a fox news alert. over the next four to seven days, that's how long a b.p. spokesman says it will take to get the new cap on top of that gushing oil well under water, under water robots are now working to remove the old cap. it should be a temporary solution, though. remains to see if it will actually succeed. but look, we have been told earlier it would be two days. now the official word from b.p. is that it may be four to seven days, that we will see unrestricted flow from that well while they swap the old cap for the new one. airlines are cutting down on lengthy tarmac del...

Surface. what they're doing is as the oil has been coming out of the leak, they have been spraying it with an oil dispersant. it was used early on. then the epa canceled the use and now they're allowing bp to use it once again. what it will do is weigh down some of the oil and keep it on the ocean floor. that's one thing they're doing. second thing they're doing is they're thinking about using again this pipe. it's about six inches in diameter. they're bringing it down all the way to the leak and the plan is to use three rov under water robots. the plan is to siphon it up to the surface where ...

Is hovering about 10,400, down about 105 points. the s&p 500 down just under 13 points. the nasdaq down 42 points. of course all eyes on wall street after that massive selloff yesterday. still trying to figure out what caused that. also major news out of greece. we'll have all of that in the next few minutes. right now, a massive 100-ton concrete and steel box is poised to be dropped on top of the blown out well gushing oil into the gulf of mexico. workers began lowering the containment dome into the waters off the louisiana coast overnight. under water robots are now getting it aligned and in...