face the nation with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. schieffer: good morning again. admiral thad allen who is in charge of the federal response of the gulf oil disaster is with us this morning. thank you for coming, admiral. we re starting with you because of this very bad news yesterday from the gulf. the attempt to put this giant house, as it were, on top of that oil well down at the bottom of the gulf clearly a hail mary pass. most people knew it would be very difficult to do. it turns it out it did not work. what happens now. the containment dome that was put over the leak site developed ice krystals which happens at very high pressure low temperature when water and natural gas come together. it started lifting the dam up and it became buoyant. they had to set it over the sea floor or next to it. the next tactic with be a junk shot. they ll take a bunch of debris, shredded up tires, golf ball
captioning sponsored by cbs face the nation with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. schieffer: good morning again. admiral thad allen who is in charge of the federal response of the gulf oil disaster is with us this morning. thank you for coming, admiral. we re starting with you because of this very bad news yesterday from the gulf. the attempt to put this giant house, as it were, on top of that oil well down at the bottom of the gulf clearly a hail mary pass. most people knew it would be very difficult to do. it turns it out it did not work. what happens now. the containment dome that was put over the leak site developed ice krystals which happens at very high pressure low temperature when water and natural gas come together. it started lifting the dam up and it became buoyant. they had to set it over the sea floor or next to it. the next tactic with be a junk shot. they ll take a bunch of debris,