the president arrived in gulfport, mississippi last hour. he will get an update on bp s new plan to reduce amount of oil spewing into the gulf. details now from cnn s chris lawrence. reporter: the coast guard told bp, hurry it up, and the company has delivered a new plan to capture oil spilling into the gulf of mexico. it includes more back-up systems to account for mechanical failures, and hurricane season. bp is also mobilizing ships in south america and europe, and now expects to accelerate its oil collection operation by two weeks. bp had hoped to capture 2 million gallons of oil a day by mid july. now they re saying they can get to that number by the end of june. the government estimates anywhere from 900,000 to 1.7 million gallons are gushing into the gulf every day. it told bp to deploy pressure sensors to get a more specific number. on sunday, the company used remote-controlled robots to position those sensors inside
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incident. we ve got multiple water rescues there. there were water rescues this morning in wichita, kansas. and we also had quite a bit of flooding widespread on the south side of kansas city metro area. so the midwest really in parts of the mid south getting hit hard with heavy rains. jackie why, we don t we come back and stack up the video we have, and show everyone the rescue we saw here live moments ago at memorial and pennsylvania avenues. and then we will rack up this rescue again that was really dramatic. at hefner and sooner. let s do that, and then sort of wrap all of the information that we have at this point and tell the story as we know t. you re in the cnn newsroom. [ announcer ] how do you plus up breakfast?
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