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Tomorrow and so far nothing from the oil giant. the biggest environmental catastrophe in u.s. history has been dragging on for 55 days now, and dragging the administration down with it. so the president will head back to the gulf coast in the morning for his fourth visit and hes hoping bp has good news for him. the containment cap is catching some but not much of the oil. since learning that double the amount of the oil is gushing out than first thought, late today bp at governments request plac...

The containment cap itself. but a bp official told us it will take a few days to know if theyre sending better information. quote, its a complex operation, and how effective it will be, we dont know. its not as if theyll plug thissen sores in and get readings rights away. bp says its capturing 600,000 gallons every day, and starting tuesday, plans to rejigger that top kill system. now, it didnt work when the ship was pumping mud down to plug the leak. but now the same pipes will suck up oil, and...

Beaches and local businesses are going bust which is why the coast guard gave bp a sunday night deadline to speed up its plans. the government estimates 900,000 to 1.7 million gallons are gushing into the gulf every day. it told bp it deploy pressure sensors to get a more specific number. on is under the company used remote control robots to position those sensors inside the containment cap itself. but a bp official told us it will take a few days to know if theyre sending better information. "i...

Allege. they now put the daily gush of oil at anywhere from 900,000 gallons a day all the way up to 1.7 million. thats a pretty large range. what the government asked bp to do was deploy sensors down to the actual well to narrow that range, to get a better accurate independent assessment of whats coming out of there, and so what bp did today was send remote control submarines down, start to position some of those sensors in the containment cap, itself. i spoke with a bp official earlier today wh...

What can you tell us about the underwater sensors? >> reporter: thats correct. scientists have asked hem to put these sensors down in the flow. up to this point they have pretty much all been rough estimates based on the video feeds. hopefully we will get more information on that throughout the week as to exactly how much oil is coming out. in terms of what they are able to contain with the containment cap, bp has been able to get 127,000 barrels since they put the cap on. the coast guard has as...

Fail, like the top kill, that they just kind of have to veer in a completely different direction. i think what the government and what the coast guard and what admiral thad allen said today is that theyre looking for more back-up plans. so if something doesnt work, theres something to fall back on. weve already started to see some of those changes. we know that by the end of the month, that containment cap thats on there now that bp says is collecting somewhere around 600,000 gallons of oil ever...

For this? >> reporter: twice the amount of oil they thought they believe is now gushing out of that ruptured well. what happened today, bp start old put these sensors, using these underwater remote control submarines to get these sensors into the containment cap itself. now, i just spoke with a spokesman for bp. he says it is a very complex maneuver. he said it is not a matter of just plugging them in and getting readings immediately, any information is probably a couple days away. don? >> liste...

As much as 25,000, 30,000, perhaps as much as 40,000 barrels of oil per day. that little containment cap on top of the well right now is capturing only about 15,800 barrels of oil per day. so the coast guard sent that testy letter to chief operating officer doug suttles of bp, demanding that the company come up with a better plan to capture more of the oil, and they want that plan by tonight. the president arrives on the coast tomorrow. alex? >> okay. can we talk about the job-loss situation the...

Than that. lets go live to venice, louisiana, and nbcs charles hadlock. charles, good morning. what is the latest on stopping this leak? what is this, 54 days into this catastrophe. >> reporter: thats right. right now theyre concentrating on putting another containment cap on top of that broken well head. the one that is there now is only able to capture about 20,000 barrels of oil a day. its capturing right now at the moment about 15,800 barrels per day. but much more oil than that is coming ou...

Impact could be four times worse. and thats even more troublesome in light of what we learned today about the time line for capturing more oil on the gulf floor. >> between the middle of june and the first week or so of july, were going to start incrementally moring system and vessel systems linked to shuttle greater flow rate. at that point once we know we can do that we will shift to containment cap to a more hard cap which will help to us capture more if not all of the oil thats coming out of...