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Chiefs of bp. i asked the presidents point man in the gulf admiral about that and more. you wrote a letter this week to the chairman of the board of bp effectively summoning him and his other top executives to come to washington next week to meet with you and to meet with the president of the united states. i guess a lot of people when they read that letter, they said what took so long? why is it taking so long for the president and for you to meet with the chairman of the board of bp? >> well, ...

Federal government, the coast guard admiral. and he said you know what? if we, the bdf have any problems getting access to the bp areas, theyre not letting us shoot video or talk to individuals, let him and his staff know, hell order them to open it up unless theres a legitimate security concern. do you buy that? >> well, no, i know reporters havent been able to get through, at least thats what the journalists are telling me. i know that it took senator boxer how many days to get high definition...

We get about 85 million tourists come to the sunshine state every year. i think in large measure because florida is such a beautiful place to visit and a great place to come. but were doing everything we can to try to protect her. and well keep doing that every day. >> how far has the oil spread to the beaches of florida at least right now? >> not that far. and thats the good news. at least in the short-term. now, we dont know what the long-term effect is going to be, nobody does. and that reall...

Feature in which the reservoir just keeps releasing oil and so on, and very, very difficult to stop, if not possible -- not impossible. >> and when you say "permanent," you mean that even if they manage to cap this specific rig, the oil would just seep out in huge quantities foreever? >> it would come out through the rocks and so on. now, with time the main pressure would decrease and it would come to some steady state like we have in santa barbara or elsewhere, hundreds or whatever barrels per ...

And bruce in philadelphia has a really dim view. jack, its here, weve entered a depression and no one will admit it. i dont know if its that bad yet. if you want to read more, grow to my blog, cnn.com/caffertyfile. wolf? >> jack cafferty, thank you. and to our viewers, youre in "the situation room." happening now -- the amount of oil gushing into the gulf is believed to be much higher -- much higher -- than previously thought. researchers have now doubled their estimate on the oil flow. but ...

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 ...

Legitimate claims. and they have to set up these assistance centers. theres a whole bureaucracy that has to be kicked into operation to make the government look efficient and its a private company so the federal government isnt about to nationalize bp but, boy, i think they really have to make sure all the good scientists get in there. if this latest attempt doesnt stop the oil flow, i think youre going to see a lot of pressure to get scientists from other companies, from u.s. facilities. more p...

Oil, 5000 feet under the surface of the ocean. let me explain the procedure that i speak to you is now taking place. what engineers and scientists of bp are trying to do is theyre essentially trying to take the equivalent of a straw, 6-inch diameter tube, and place it into 21-inch diameter pipeline that is leaking, then they want to siphon off the oil and bring it to the surface. complicating matters, the smaller 6-inch tube has wings that have to be deployed or flaps that have to essentially fi...

Tires, golf balls, into the blowout preventer to clog it. the blowout preventer, remember, is the emergency brake on the oil flow. its supposed to be a fail-safe system. it did not work here. and yesterday in washington, it was the focus of a lot of criticism from a house panel, particularly because bp said there was a hydraulic leak in the blowout preventer, and the battery was dead on what was supposed to be the dead mans switch. monica? >> okay. anne thompson, thanks for that update. amazing ...

Companies. the western companies pull out, the iranian companies cant do the work, the oil flow dries up, sounds great, except that is not how it seems to be working out. much of what used to be done by foreign companies has now been taken of wire local companies are owned and run by irans revolutionary guard. these companies are now minting money and the revolutionary guard are gaining greater control over irans economy, society and politics. you see, if you thought the revolutionary guard were...