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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100514:19:17:00

reporter: no, there have been crews checking what they call the tar ball catchers. they ve laid these out for a couple weeks trying to see if there have been any more tar balls. they only found about a half dozen last weekend but so far it s been kept pretty much isolated and there haven t been any more discoveries of that. today they re hoping, we had a press conference earlier today with admiral thad allen the person who is overseeing the federal response to this and he says that he s expecting bp to lower the top hat containment dome on top of the source of the leak at this point. he is hoping that by today, by the end of today we ll understand if that s actually working. this is the second option because last week as you remember the larger dam they were supposed to put on top of the leak failed because there were ice crystals forming at the top of the dome and it was pushing it up towards the surface. they are hoping that will be in place later today and then they ll run a long

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100513:13:01:00

let s get to the rundown. we start with the latest efforts to plug the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. there is hope today that the, quote, top hat containment dome will finally be enough to stop the oil that has been gushing for 24 days now. nbc s kristen dahlgren is in venice, louisiana, this morning. and kristen, so, it s working. what does this mean? isn t there still more oil that they think will come through outside of the top hat? reporter: yeah. you know, there are two leaks. they hope to later on lower the top hat down on top of that leak, line everything up, then begin to siphon the oil up to the top. the idea is this is a much smaller box than the original containment dome and if they can pump chemicals and warm water through it and not getting the icing problem that we have seen. so a lot of people here as you can imagine waiting, especially when you see that underwater video of that gusher and just how much oil is spewing into the gulf and think about how that has been

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100514:16:02:00

spill and we re waiting for the president to speak about the actions they plan to take to combat the massive casualty of what s happening there in the region. independent scientists have analyzed under water video released by bp. in fact, npr s analysis show it is leak is ten times worse. we first thought it was 1,000 barrels, then 5,000 barrels. frankly, whether it was one, five, ten or 15, far beyond that. tranh, what are they doing now to stop the oil that s spewing into the water? reporter: admiral allen said that later today, bp is hoping to move that much talked about top hat containment dome on top of the spill area, that leak point, and hopefully cap it and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100513:17:31:15

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100514:15:03:00

we ve seen spewing all of that oil in the gulf of mexico. if that s successful they ll siphon that into the containment ship there and we should know within the next 24 hours and maybe sooner if that s going to be successful. if that doesn t work then they ll try the top hat containment dome that we ve heard so much about, so plan a and plan b, both ready to go. they re going with the insertion tube first and we re going to see if that is the one that finally works here. something else we heard from admiral allen. he said the spill is changing and the dynamics of this spill. what are the advantages to this if there are any. well, he was saying that it s not turned into a big, large, thick oil spill. it s popping up in different places and different textures. the only advantage behind this is that you will not see a large amount, a tremendous amount of oil come ashore in any particular place and just

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