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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. ....
Monday morning. glad you are with us on this july 19th. welcome to american morning. i m kiran chetry. i m john roberts. a possible setback on the sea floor in the gulf mexico. the government is ordering bp to investigate a leak near its damaged well. this is not a leak in a pipe, this is a leak in the seafloor. we re live in new orleans with new details on what this could all mean for the containment cap which remains in place this morning. also what appears to be a major rift in the ranks of the tea party movement. the national leadership expelling the tea party express and its conservative founder mark williams. this comes after his inflammatory comments about race. we re live in washington with new developments just ahead. you ve heard of too big to fail, right? how about too big to succeed? a new two-year-long investigation by the washington post out just a few hours ago says the post-9/11 intelligence ....
Anthony ward bought 241,000 tons of europe s cocoa beans. he paid over $1 billion for them. beans could fill five ships the size of the titanic. the transaction is pushing cocoa prices in europe to a 33-year high on fears that a handful of investors are trying to corner the market. if you re a chocoholic, don t worry cocoa prices here state side are actually down. a troubling twist in bp s efforts to contain the oil spill this morning. the federal government saying that tests have now revealed a substance seeping near the well. this news making it even more difficult for experts to try to comprehend the nation s worst environmental disaster. joining me from washington this morning, david mizejewski, a naturalist with the national wildlife federation. david, thanks for being with us this morning. when we originally put out the call to talk to you, we thought at least for now this was capped, there was no oil flowing as of thursday afternoon. now we re learning that because of this s ....
Kiran? amazing how they got away with it for so long. john zarrella this morning, thanks. crossing the half-hour right now. time for a look at this morning s top stories. engineers monitoring bp s newly capped well have detected a substance seeping from the sea floor near the deepwater horizon. the government is demanding bp monitor the seabed and prepare to re-open the containment cap to relieve pressure on the well. a top-secret intelligence community growing out of control, too big to fit into 22 u.s. capitals or almost three pentagons. that s what a two-year washington post investigation into the post-9/11 world has uncovered. the paper says it is almost impossible to figure out how much it is all costing and whether it is even working. also, president obama s economic push continues today. he s going to be speaking from the rose garden in a few hours. the white house says the president will call on congress to extend unemployment benefits for millions of americans still ....
That could be catastrophic like that. one of the first steps coming up would be to open some of the choke valves. possibly replacing the cap itself with that riser and begin the containment process of pulling the oil up to the containment ship. we are hoping it won t get to that point, but we may get to that containment process. we have a variance on that. thad allen is in favor of using the coin containment process. bp is happy to keep the lid on until the relief wells are complete, but the relief well will be the game changer. that can really put an end to the process, but if we are lucky and that solves the issue with the well itself, john, we still have long-term effects on the environment, the economy along the gulf coast, it could last for general rations. a distinct amount of good news there. thank you, reynolds. a top secret intel community ....