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April 20 the Macondo well started spilling oil into the gulf of Mexico because of an explosion on the rig.
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| This just in the "Deepwater Horizon" rig was drilling into the Macondo well when expolsion and fire started. | |
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| Oil is poring into the gulf of Mexico. 11 lives were lost in this expolsion. | |
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| Today we now know that the oil has already affected the islands of the Mississippi River delta off the U.S. coast near New Orleans. | |
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| New Orleans could be affected if the wind carries the oil more. | |
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| The containment dome that BP though would cap the well and keep oil from continuing to spill into the water failed. | |
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| The containment dome failed because ice crystals built up inside it, so the oil did not rise up naturally into the dome as the scientists had hoped it would. | |
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