has already been linked, to seven bombs in three days, and the post office has better tracking facilities. let s face it, they got them before they got to the intended victim partly because the post office has certain precautions in place. now they can trace it back to an area and start looking at the components, whether they be chemical components are physical components like the pipe itself, where those were purchased. laura: it was reported today that the post office wasn t used, a courier was used at the cnn drop for this particular envelope. so the stamps weren t marked, they weren t actually stamped. doesn t make it more difficult or less difficult?
rather depends how long this emergency goes on for, whether those extra people from overseas will be really required. at the moment, the focus apart from the pipe itself, which is about 40-kilometers from gray mount, the focus is on the town where all these relatives and friends are. and the mood among the people there is obviously growing increasingly anxious. some are demanding the rescue teams go in now. but the police say they just are not prepared to take that sort of risk. incidentally, the mining company has ferried some members of each family up to the mine in the past few hours so that they can talk direct to engineers and to rescuers about the possibility of the men folk being found alive and tell them exactly what s going on to try to rescue them. so the mining company doing all they can to try to deal with this situation, but at the present time, it s just a case of waiting and seeing. rick: and another difference between the situation in new zealand and the one in chile
they re still on target so that they re very close to the pipe that they want to intercept, the one that s gushing all of the oil. so that s the time consumer element of the relief well. but as for the actual pipe itself, the well that s leaking, you ve got the containment dome on top, it s a big hose coming out of the seafloor, you ve got the dome on top, we ve all seen the underwater pictures of all of the oil and methane spewing out underneath it because there s not a perfect seal. of course a lot of the oil is going up and being collected about 27,000-barrel a 27,000 barrels a day. what they re going to do tomorrow is remove the cap, remove that dome, which means for two or three days, it s going to be full, 100 percent, gushing of oil and methane into the gulf. that s, of course, the negative consequence here, but the goal here is that in three days, they will then be able then be able to put a much tighter seal, one that perfectly seems the gushing wellhead at the top of the
we have a indeterminate omnidirectional threat holding the gulf as risk all the way to florida. since the spill is aggregated into hundreds of thousands of patches of oil it places a premium on dis aggregating our forces to attack it where we can and it changed the complex not only of the threat but the response and we have been adapting in that regard. shepard: we re warned from time to time the well, the replacement well, set to be finished in august, may or may not do the trick. if the pipe itself, the well itself is broken below the floor of gulf, there s a possibility it won t work. is it there a backup plan and if so, what is it? first of all, this is a very precise operation. many of the things being done on the sea bed around the wellhead have never been done at 5,000 feet.