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Coming out and saying the flow rate is irrelevant? that it doesnt matter to the effort or overall, how much oil is pouring out every single day. >> how do i say this delicately, let me think? hes lying. lying, lying, lying. the statute says if they show gross negligence it could be up to $4,000 a barrel fine. they first tell us -- im the worst lawyer in the world, but i think i could take on the bp legal team. 4,000 barrels a day. they started out saying it was 1,000. theyre going to put new est...

About the flow rate. he acknowledged in his letter to the coast guard, it is important to know. but publicly its irrelevant. >> how long are we going to let them tell us what theyre going to do. when is the government going to say, get out the way, well measure it. why are we letting bp still run the show? >> the story is saying the government wants them to put more instruments down there. >> right, new sensors in the new containment. >> why dont we just have someone go down and put the sensors ...

Picayune" doug suttles said knowing how much oil is gushing out of this well is important. "the flow rate has never impacted the response. its extraordinary imprecise and we took a view very early on, we didnt think you could do it. meaning measure the flow rate, and we didnt think it was relevant either." bp had always planned to overreact to the spill, planning for a worst case scenario. if that is true, how come theyre still scrambling to get containment vessels here and boom and skimmers and...

The flow rate has never impacted the response. its extraordinary imprecise and we took a view very early on, we didnt think you could do it. meaning measure the flow rate, and we didnt think it was relevant either." bp had always planned to overreact to the spill, planning for a worst case scenario. if that is true, how come theyre still scrambling to get containment vessels here and boom and skimmers and just about everything else. to continue to claim its just too hard to estimate the oil, and...

Flow rates. he wrote to doug suttles, im concerned your current plans do not provide for maximum mobilization of resources to provide the needed collection capacity with revised -- consistent with revised flow estimates." that was admiral watson saying, they hadnt planned well enough to capture enough oil. what is truly stunning is doug suttles response two days later saying "we will continue to adapt our plans as more is learned about the flow rate from the well." theyre going to adapt their pl...

Looking for tar balls on pensacola beach and finding none. she could have gone to louisiana, where the oil was already smothering the marshes and nobody was cleaning it up. tom sezlar had a bp i.d. and no problem getting past security to get on to the beach. something other reporters were prevented from doing. heres how he described what he saw on the beach. it -- meaning the beach -- was closed so a mighty bp-led force could continue preparing it and be ready to defend it against any oil. that ...

Is pouring out of there every single day? >> how do i say this delicately, let me think? hes lying. lying, lying, lying. the statute says if they show gross negligence it could be up to $4,000 a barrel fine. >> right, first they rule -- >> they first tell us -- im the worst lawyer in the world, but i think i could take on the bp legal team. 4,000 barrels a day. they started out saying it was 1,000. theyre going to put new estimates, saying its 80 to 100. 80 times 4,000, i dont know, $32 million ...

How much of a problem is this? >> well, if we have to do that it could be a bit of a problem. and the current projections on the hurricane are going more to the west and north. therefore, we probably dope have to worry too much about it disrupting this. but if one of the models is correct and it comes east and more directly north, then it could be a problem. and one of those models projects the hurricane moving slowly. if it moves slowly, that could be more disruptive than it moving on shore qui...

Multibeam sonar technology to study a way to determine the flow rate. bp agreed, then changed their mind. that was may 4th. may 19th, lamar mckay, president of bp america testified to the senate that they couldnt measure the leak, and i quote, because the leak is not measurable through technology we know. perhaps he didnt know about the may 4th offer and that technology, but he surely must have known that other scientists, by may 19th, had other technology that theyd come forward with. in fact o...

Itself. >> in his speech a little while ago, the president said within a few weeks bp was going to be capturing 90% of the oil coming out of that blowout preventure. what happened today? does that show just how tenuous these projections can be? >> i think thats true and of course weve had other problems with that containment cap in the past when the drill ship was hit by lightning, the tower was hit by lightning of course. and one thing weve seen is that the flow lines from the lower marine rise...