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Cement to go in to seal this thing off permanently, why not just wait until theyre at least almost ready to do that if not wait until after to do this? >> people have suggested that, apparently, some of the engineers ive spoken with have said that while they could certainly leave everything open, collect the oil out of the stacking cap up to the surface vessels until theyre ready to try the bottom kill with the relief well, until theyre intersected there, and then if the kill fluid, the muds and...

Random pictures, but the one that i am looking at, two of the pictures that show literally gauges from zero to 15,000 psi. and right now, that needle is on zero. when it starts to go up we will know that they are shutting the vavl valves. >> all right. standby, chad. it is impossbling to overstate how critical this operation is to ending this gulf oil disaster. cnns brian todd talked about it with national incident commander and retired coast guard admiral thad allen in houston. >> reporter: h...

Misrepresent the flow rate. theyre doing what they can to misrepresent the pressurization in that well and have been for a long time. i wont go onto what theyre doing bp is not behaving in a way that suggests theyre anxious to make everybody whole. >> im not on here to defend bp. >> i wont put you there. >> this is the federal government making regulation without looking at the true economic factors in play here. if you dont like this, just wait until cap and trade. >> hold on a second, alex. i ...

Sustain those pressures for that amount of time. this could be 6, 24 or 48 hours and at that point we will have a better idea, not only the pressure, it will tell us something about the condition of the well board itself and, ultimately, tell us something about the flow rate which today has been based on estimates, based on the digital imagery acoustic testing and so forth. so, a consequenceal day. somewhere afternoon well start and the technical team is being assembled. after this press confere...

>> its the basis of all the amounts bp is going to pay ive been focusing on the fact that bp has been slow at getting this contained and only moved forward on the ceiling cap after the coast guard incested on friday. its to bps advantage to have unmeasured oil going into the water. as long as its unmeasured oil going into the water, then that has a chance of reducing their total amount they owe. it wont be measured. they can negotiate that down. >> as a counselor i ask that you note that deliber...

Necessary and substantiated claims. anyone who goes in front of congress with that many qualifiers, as an attorney, we knew something was up with bp. now, dylan, theyve indicated, look, were going to put in more stringent controls over the claims. as ive indicates to clients and partne partners, they say attorney washington whats going on. whats going on is theyre going from no to hell no. theyre not going to pay the claims. >> one other issue with not paying the claims is the calculation of the...

Relief well to go down there 18,000 feet. cement it shut. the governments estimate on that happening is still in august. >> shepard: if they are capturing all the oil in theory, we ought to be able to get an accurate flow rate, right? >> that makes sense. over the past 81 days the government estimates will then put in total three and a half million to 5 million barrels that have spilled into the gulf. but once you have all of this now being capped and contained. going to three surface ships. cle...

Three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. youve heard nothing from bp is my understanding. why do you think that is? >> i really dont know. i wish they would pick up a phone and just give me a call so i can walk them through the proposal. the experiment is very important, ive gotten very good feedback from scientists within the government and s...

Detailed proposal, 88 pages, $8.4 million to implement. as you guessed it, still nothing. bear in mind, its 1500ths of a percent that bp earned in the quarter before the spill. its about 2.5 hundredths of a percent sandra bernstein estimated the spill would cost bp. i spoke about it earlier with dr. ira lifer. dr. leifer, its been more than three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impac...

Percent sandra bernstein estimated the spill would cost bp. you can decide for yourself whether thats a small cost for this company to pay. i spoke about it earlier with dr. ira leifer. dr. leifer, its been more than three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. theres a huge list of things youre trying to study and yet youve heard nothing from bp ...