Page 71 - Estimating News Today

Is estimating as much as 6 to 7 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours of time. that might not be a big company some parts of the united states, but when youre talking about such woody terrain, all of that rain goes down the valley by the river and collects, and that river rose 20 feet. 20 feet, in just a couple of hours and that is ten feet above the previous record, just to help put this into perspective. high pressure which was in control into the gulf here. that brought in south westerly ...

Mothers holding tight to babies, unfortunately some were swept away. as you can imagine these families are in shock, stunned, theyre not eating, so that is one of our most -- our biggest focus right now is to get people to eat, drink and keep their energy up. >> we want to bring in jacqui jeras to talk about what happened. was there a forecast warning? we knew there was a warning at 2:00 a.m. >> there was a need watch, which means conditions are favorable for flooding. i dont think anyone expect...

Gulf fat allen, the admiral from the u.s. coast guard. how could the government have gotten these flow rates so wrong? originally bp said 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000, then recently 12 to 19,000 barrels a day. now they are saying its actually double that, 20,000 to 40,000 and that was before this cut-and-cap procedure was put into place. whats going on here? >> wolf, thanks for asking the question because we need to have a good discussion about this. first of all, these are the government est...

That would corral the oil in a 500-foot boom that is fire resistent and then that oil would be moved, towed away from the heavier concentrated areas and then set on fire, and so that is a more effective way of removing that oil from the water so that it doesnt get mixed up or actually pose a threat to fish and wildlife and have potential shoreline impacts. megyn: tell me about that, what kind of a threat are we looking at? what i read is that the oil is continuing to spill under sea at a rate of...

Latest updates on this topic.