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Other big oil companies have other similar response plans. shell and chevron said they could take care of 200,000 barrels a day. if they have some solution that cleans oil faster, folks would love to hear about it. but chances are they dont. chances are their numbers are just as made up as bps were. four of the five oil companies have plans that call for protecting walruses which, by the way wrrks not spotted in the gulf -- last spotted in the gulf about 3 million years ago, according to what iv...

Put together, a device was developed to help bring the oil up and now we need the tankers there to take that oil up. those will be in place in the coming days and when they are, the capacity will be there to take in what we believe is all or nearly all of the oil. >> well, should the president though be coming on national tv and touting a number thats based on bps estimates when just yesterday, for example, we learned again that the flow rate increased almost 50% on a daily basis than was previo...

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 incompetent. and i think that the livability of the gulf i...

Here. heres what they said. >> it seemed more like a pr spiel. were going on 60 days and now he comes out with this state of the union address? >> well spoken man, but just -- this energy policy, everyone is concerned in the long run whats going to happen here immediately and in the future. >> reporter: imagine, 58 days, and its getting worse, not better. bill: trace, how do we explain the flow rate? we were at maximum 40,000 barrels at the high end. suddenly yesterday afternoon, its up to 60,00...

This siege is done. >> reporter: again, you hear the word "siege" there. this all about being a war. but again, the president still, even as he was laying out that case, was sort of trying to downplay expectations with the american people about some sort of quick fix here ming it clear, this could drag on. >> it was interesting, because in some ways downplayed, in some ways optimistic talking about potentially in the coming days and weeks to be able to capture 90% of the oil. that caught a lot o...

Happens today. >> certainly the companys been battered publicly. we heard them testifying yesterday in congress. but technically, can they be forced? account president force bp to comply in terms of paying for this? >> well, were going to use every device, legal device, at our disposal if necessary. but i believe that they understand the situation that theyre in and they understand the pressure theyre under to meet their obligations. we are going to make sure that they do. >> the president also ...

Time when people have so low confidence in government, you have to show them you cant just tell them and that has to be the thing going forward. will these changes actually make a difference for people? >> karen, great pleasure having you on. thank you. some other developments in the gulf oil disaster. bp announced just this morning that oil and gas from the gushing well are being captured or is now being captured through a second containment system. the system is bringing the oil to a rig on ...

They said they had to stop collecting oil from the broken pipe for about five hours. the joint information center tells cnn that containment opplations resumed at 3:15 eastern time. at the rate theyve been collecting thats between 3,000 and 4,000 barrels that they probably could not collect, wolf. >> if you were looking at the live feed coming out, could you tell more was coming out because they werent collecting the oil during those hours? >> well, weve got some images to show you which may or ...

Up, and up and up some more. the federal government is estimating that the flow rate is between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels of oil each and every day. consider this. in the first days bp estimated the flow rate at 1,000 barrels a day. the government upped that number to 5,000, but a special flow rate technical group of government and independent scientists later put it even higher at 12 to 19,000 barrels a day. last week, they revised the estimate upwards to 20 to 40,000 barrels, and now, we have ...

The polls. if the election were held today, would president obama win a second term? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog. >> jack, thank you. just to recap, the breaking news we just reported, new government estimates just coming in, put the flow rate of gushing oil right now into the gulf of mexico anywhere between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day. perhaps as much as 60,000 barrels a day spewing into the gulf of mexico right now that theyre capturing. 15,000, that still le...