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In the area that do have trace gallagher is live in our west coast news room with more. what more do we know? the residents said you can see this from miles awayç but u can hear it from miles away. the pictures from earlier were phenomenal. this is an onhands on deck scenario. the hospitals on alert. you heard the governor talking. you have firefighters and first responsiblers. right now they re pretty much letting the chemical burn off. not to say the chemical is going in the air because theç authorities believe what is happening is the chemical is actually burning off as it comes out of the at the same time they have all the rest of these emergency valves and shut down mode so there s no chance of any other explosions here. they do not know the cause of this right now. but they are still investigating. a long way to go. the injuries are staggering, based on what the for told us, 3 ....
Below the sea floor, that would be very, very difficult to stop and could make this problem much, much bigger. so what is the next step? reporter: well, the next step is going to be a very careful one. i can tell you thad allen yesterday, the retired coast guard admiral mentioned to bp in a letter that he wants, if there is any more seepage, he wants an update as soon as possible, at least within four hours. at the same time he wants to have detailed instructions on how to open the emergency valves on top of the cap itself. and then he also would like a written update within the next 24 hours. one thing that may happen, if it does appear there is some seepage, they may actually replace the top of the cap with a riser and they would restart the containment efforts of having the riser, having the pipes going up to the surface and siphoning would resume. if they were to go to route, the problem is you would have oil possibly flowing back into the gulf of mexico from one to three days. ....