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one for b.p. officials trying to stop gallons of oil gushing in the gulf every day. they re considering new options because the attempt to use 100-ton containment vessel failed. kris gutierrez is live in venice, louisiana, with more. hi, kris. reporter: hi, shannon. joining us live is curtis thomas with b.p. you are going to explain that the containment dome didn t work as you hoped yesterday but you are going to try to use it, correct? tell us. absolutely. we knew there would be a lot of challenges in the proposal. what happened is we lowered the dome over the leak and ice crystals built up, hydrates built up and it caused the dome to actually rise up. what we did was we moved it 200 meters off the leak and set it on the seabed floor again and we re thinking about several different options on how to overcompensate for the hydrate program. shannon reporter: i know all options are on the table but one thing that is interesting, the hydrates and crystals form a slushy i

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