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shows the larger of two leaks on the floor off the coast of louisiana. we re told the lighter colored stream there is natural gas. it s also spilling out of the same well. now bp executives say they are getting ready to try their latest plan to plug that leak. but as they have been reminding us for the past three weeks, there are no guarantees and frankly, independent experts say the odds are not with them. phil keating is live in empire louisiana tonight. phil, this is the new and supposedly the new improved containment dome, right? right. also not guaranteed to work. it s called the top hat it only ways 2,000 pounds. going to work essentially the same way. tonight, it is resting on the sea bed floor getting diagnostic tests and getting these tubes, through of them meth no will meth than clogging. shepard: we are getting word that enormous oil slick is moving to the west, right? it is moving to the west. south of us here by about 25 miles is where the mississippi river
too early for finger pointing. it is too early for congress to speak to the executives because cleanup is under way, and they are needed back on deck to resume skimming the scum from the gulf. to understand just what they were up to today, a quick tutorial on how the deepwater horizon rig worked. it was owned and operated by a company called transocean. bp hired transocean to bring the rig to the site it had leased in the gulf, and drill and operate the well there. drill, baby, drill. halliburton was hired to do the cementing, sealing the pipeline that led back to the rig. if you believed all of those companies today, we know all those companies screwed up somehow and it is too early to blame any of those companies. we begin with bp north american president lamar mckay talking about the questions bp has about halliburton s cement work and about transocean. why did transocean s blowout preventer, the key fail-safe mechanism, fail to shut in the well and release the rig? bp a
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