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Claims, that bp has said they will do. and some sort of set aside money is popular here, and of course, we got new estimates of the flow rate, and yet again, the estimate is 60,000 barrels a day, and that is the upper range which is what independent scientists have said all along, and that is just sort of adding to the sense of disbelief that a lot of people have here, not believing what the government is saying and not believing what bp is saying. >> well, i wouldnt be shocked if next week they...

Have to pay for, if my airline ticket was canceled because i dont want to go to panama beach im going to sue bp for it. thats why its killing. >> pat, you think that paying off laid off workers doesnt have much precedence. >> theres little legal ground. its not going through. theres no legal precedent for paying laid off workers. the larger issue is that the civil penalties for an oil spill go from about 1100 bucks a barrel to 4300 a barrel and high end of 4300 bucks and 40,000 barrel a day flow...

Falling short according to federal authorities on the site, they say the company is failing to take into account a higher flow rate of the oil. they want a new plan by tomorrow. a 16-year-old sailor has some bumps and bruises but shes safe and sound. thats what abby sunderlands family is say thing afternoon. the teenager was rescued from her yacht drifting in the indian ocean. she was trying to sail around the world by herself. okay, so world cup soccer fans, it was close. neck and neck. the...

Later? >> yeah. it is deeply troubling. i have to say, though, in my discussions with the white house, over the course of this whole disaster, something that i reported on the daily beast not so long ago, theyve had the he can pecktation from the beginning this flow would not really be stopped until this relief well gets drilled, which is august. so it is going to be a long and messy period in that all the various measures, whether they have the tankers in place or not, are really not going to b...

Coast. lets go live to venice, louisiana, and charles had lock standing by. the question to you, charms, from your vantage point, anything new in the latest to stop the leak 54 days into the catastrophe? >> reporter: we just received word that the federal on-scene coordinator, james watson, has given bp 48 hours to devise a more aggressive plan to contain the leaking oil. clearly, the government and everyone else here is getting frustrated by the continuing flow of oil into the gulf of mexico. a...

Impact could be four times worse. and thats even more troublesome in light of what we learned today about the time line for capturing more oil on the gulf floor. >> between the middle of june and the first week or so of july, were going to start incrementally moring system and vessel systems linked to shuttle greater flow rate. at that point once we know we can do that we will shift to containment cap to a more hard cap which will help to us capture more if not all of the oil thats coming out of...

Yes, of course. >> it is a little ridiculous when you think about it. ed, that so many days into this that some of these scientists and well be speaking with one of them in the next hour. professor ira lifer at santa barbara who is involved in this flow rate technical committee, only in recent days has he had access to stuff he really needed over the past several weeks. this is a little ridiculous, isnt it? >> it is. bp has acted like this is something going on their board room and theyre talkin...

About this. first of all these are the government estimates being developed by our flow rate technical team under the director of marshall mcnutt, the head of the geological survey and the best scientists in the country involved in this. i told them from the start when i set this group up, we need to challenge our assumption and refine the work and to extent that we can improve on the estimating theyve been doing that. and i told them to come back periodically and lets see if we can get it to a ...

Biggest leak. the idea of trying to do that is incredibly difficult. you are taking a six-inch pipe into a leak that has a tremendous flow rate. that could be anywhere from, they are guesstimating 5,000 to 70,000 barrels a day. they are using three rovs, underwater robots. they are trying to put that in position to siphon the fuel. they will be able to siphon about 85% of the oil if they are lucky and put it in a tanker ship and bring it back to shofrmt thats one of the options they are using th...

Wounding four. the military says it is confident it can regain control. the violence has already killed 17 people and wounded 141 others. the one thing we do know is on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, the casing or both. >> any kind of test would have looked youd see the thing is wired wrong. all you do is check the batteries. >> people are canceling their vacations, their fishing trips. >> what i can tell you is that flow rate looks pretty muc...