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Valve 5,000 feet below where a massive oil rig used to be. it's spilling at the equivalent of 42,000 gallons a day. it spilled a week ago, last tuesday, when a rig called the deep water horizon caught fire in an explosion that still is unexplained. the rig sank two days later. 11 crew members were missing. they have not been found and are presumed dead. the misery of the loss of lives is now compounded by the well gushing out of well head nearly a mile below the water's surface. the coast guard and owners and less cis of the well, transocean and the oil giant, bp, are racing to try to contain ...

Operations to remove the oil from the surface. we will still continue to employ the chemical disburse.application to also limit the amount of oil or change the oil that's on the surface in addition to trying to employ the on-water fire application and really, we are not going to be lighting the whole entire slick on fire. we basically corral a portion of the oil away from the main slick and that's what we try to burn and not the entire slick itself. >> how -- how optimistic are you that the actual well head can be capped that it can be stopped at the source in the thing i think is very upsetti...

Valve where a massive oil rig used to be. it's spilling at the equivalent of 42,000 gallons a day. the deep water horizon caught fire after an unexplained explosion. the rig sank two days later. 11 crew members were missing. they have not been found and are presumed dead. the misery of the loss of lives is now compounded by the well gushing out of well head nearly a mile below the water's surface. transocean and bp are racing to try to contain the damage before it gets worse. those orange ribbons, those are sweet crude oil. it covers an area bigger than the state of west virginia and since the...

The well head can be shut down. that's why we make efforts to shut that well, so we can stop the flow of oil from that well head, or at least reduce the amount of flow, so every effort is being made to focus on that, as well as continue the oil removal operations on the surface. >> commander, i will say as a opinion who doesn't know very much about this technology, what i'm worried about is that we've allowed the technology for drilling in very deep water to get ahead of the technology for zealing with safety issues, in very deep water. some of the things you're doing, especially trying to cap...

Surface, we will still continue to employ the chemical disbursing application to also limit the amount of oil or change the oil that's on the surface. in addition to trying to employ the on water fire application. and legal really, we're not going to be lighting the entire slick on fire, we basically coral a portion of the oil away from the main slick, and that's what we try to burn, not the entire slick itself. >> how optimistic are you that the actual well head can be capped, it can be stopped at the source. the thing that's upsetting is that this isn't a vessel, this isn't the exxon valdez,...