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Engineers, figuring out how oil and gas move through pipes and reservoirs, thats their business. if they have this kind of a number weeks and weeks ago. why didnt they let us know? why in the world did they try top kill with a flow like that. >> let me interrupt you. i thought the number that came out the other day $35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day coming out, that was the number that your committee, flow rate, technical committee came out with thats not a bp number. >> i am not completely read so...

Helped the flow rate technical group reach consensus on how much oil is spewing from the well. one member says chu participated in discussions but never pushed the scientists towards a particular conclusion. >> i was happily surprised energy my opinion, politics played no role at all in this flow rate determination. it was an open scientific discourse do try to come up with the best possible estimate using multiple pieces of information of what the flow rate is. >> reporter: chu has history with...

Idea supports this idea. that seems important. we supposedly have an administration now that values science, right? were all bragging about the fact that our nobel prize-winning secretary has a nobel prize. were all bragging about the fact that he and his nobel prize are personally involved in calculating the flow rate at the oil pipe right now. but if we supposedly have all of these super-smart science-driven folks in high levels of government and were privileging science over political expedie...

Make sure they are changing that culture and living up to their commitment to these workers, like the two widows whose testimony i played during my opening statement. >> lets address the actual crisis as it continues to develop and expand today as this testimony continues and everybody goes about their daily lives. to what extent was there either a conscious or negligent misrepresentation of the flow rate from this well in the first few weeks eerither by bp or the government, and to what extent ...

Flow rate was meaningfully higher. thats for day. if you look at the ability to contain the oil, my goodness me, can we do more to put booms, drop a curtain, bring super tankers? are we still deferring as opposed to the nasa response that would appear to be obvious required to deal with a volcano of oil in the bottom of the gulf of mexico. >> tony hayward made it clear from bps perspective the only meaningful way now of stopping the flow is the two relief wells. >> but nast not question. i ackno...

The leak was 1,000 barrels per day. shortly thereafterpeople monitoring the video said it had to be at least 5,000 barrels a day. at the end of the may it was updru upgrated to 19,000 barrels a day. now this week 60,000 barrels a day. thats 2.5 million gallons a day, dylan. thats an ecological adequacy fi of the highest order. >> were going to talk about this with matt simmons in just a second. but how much responsibility for the misrepresentation of that flow rate, which is determined by the re...

We supposedly have an administration now that values science, right? were all bragging about the fact that our nobel prize-winning secretary has a nobel prize. were all bragging about the fact that he and his nobel prize are personally involved in calculating the flow rate at the oil pipe right now. but if we supposedly have all of these super-smart science-driven folks in high levels of government and were privileging science over political expediency, finally, why are we okaying this dumb idea...

Beginning i have not believed bp. i have not believed their numbers. thats why i forced them to put up the spill cam so that experts could analyze this flow rate. i think that the number could even go higher. i think that we are in a worst case scenario. i think bp was trying to limit their liability because they pay a fine per barrel of oil thats out there. they were lying or grossly incompetent. and i think that the livability of the gulf is, as a result, been victimized by bp. but these numbe...

Scientists said it could be 70,000, they attacked that guy and said its inaccurate and its alarmist. >> you know right from the beginning i have not believed bp. i have not believed their numbers. i forced them to put up the spill cam so experts could analyze this flow rate. i think that the number could even go higher. i think that we are in a worst case scenario. i think bp was trying to limit their liability because they pay a fine per barrel of oil thats out there. they were lying or grossly...

Ago. one optimistic note from the presidents speech, he says that within weeks, bp will be able to capture 90% of the oil spewing from the underwater leak. cnns ed lavandara is in new orleans. is that met with relief or skepticism? what are people saying about that? >> reporter: essentially where we are at and what you hear over and over from people is this goes back to the flow rate which keeps changing -- keeps changing week by week. yesterday, late afternoon, we heard the news the new flow ...