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That they have had time -- last 24 hours is that they have had time to engineer the equipment, and do desktop exercises to understand how it will come together, and they started from ground zero in building the equipment. so it was not something that was decided not to be a good idea, because we knew it would be from the start, but the question was how to build it and get it to the scene. >> reporter: but what about when people say, they are just throwing stuff up against the wall to see what st...

>> mike, its probably somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 this morning. the cost associated is being paid for something out of the oil spill liability trust fund. all those charges will be back-charged and recovered from british petroleum. >> one other question, admiral. this sounds bizarre, but, i mean, do we know how much oil is in the gulf? i mean, this has been spewing like this now for weeks. tremendous natural resource, i think many people were unaware of. how many oil is there beneath the...

This entire response and ive been doing this for over 30 years is that theres no human access to the point of discharge and thats something thats very, very different and anomalous about this event. >> are you satisfied about the response of bp and the rate that theyre moving in. its been almost four weeks now and there have been failures and learning about some of the things that went wrong leading up to the explosion? do you trust them to move in a timely fashion? >> in my view, bps been relen...

This point, lets head to the front line gulf disaster. and joining us now from biloxi, mississippi, the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, admiral thad allen. admiral, is it 5,000 barrels a day thats spewing out? 50,000 barrels a day? 70,000 barrels a day? were confused right now based on all these reports. >> wolf, i heard the same reports, too, if i could just comment in this regard. whether its 1,000 or 5,000 barrels a day or 50,000 barrels a day, we have planned from the start for a catastr...

Lets talk about estimates. we first thought 1,000 or 5,000. frankly whether its one, five, 10 or 15, or mobilization of resources is far beyond that. were prepared for a catastrophic event. we have not been contained in our tactics by flow estimates. i urge us all to remember were operating in environment where theres no human access. the only parameters we have are two-dimensional video presentation and any remote sensing we can do down there. while all that goes on, ultimately were going to ha...

Event we -- and i would urge us all to remember were operating in an environment where there is no human access and the only parameters we have are a video presentation and any remote sensing that we can do out there. so while all of that dos and ultimately well have to know the extent of the spill for damage assessments and other things. as far as a current response were on top of everything on the surface and doing a great job so you dont have the impacts here. that needs to continue, but as f...

Lets talk about estimates. we first thought it was 1,000 barrels and then we thought it was 5,000 barrels. frankly, whether it was one or five or 10 or 15, our mobilization of resources are for something far beyond that because were always prepared for a catastrophic event. so weve not been constrained in our planning, resources or tactics by the flow estimates and i would urge us all to remember were operating in an environment where there is no human access. the only parameters we have are a t...

Ive been doing this over 30 years, no human access at the point of discharge. thats different. >> bp, its been almost four weeks now and theres been failures. learning what we learned about what went wrong before the explosion, do you trust them in acting in a timely fashion? >> in my view, they have been relentless. we understand the stakes. bp is rolling in new tactics. this hasnt been done. this is an aggregation of scientific support in the houston area, british headquarters, unprecedented. ...

Two-dimensional video and remote sensing. we have to deal with the oil on the sufshts and were dealing with that in every way possible, skimming, on-site burning and some evaporates. >> jon meacham. >> admiral, what is the historical analogy here? what was the first thing you asked to be briefed on? was it santa barbara, the valdez, which is obviously different? has there been any experience that we have had that can in any way shed light on what we should be doing? >> well, thats a terrific que...

Five or ten or 15 or mobilization of resources has been for something far beyond that, were always prepared for a catastrophic event. so we have not been constrained in our planning or resources or tactics. by the flow estimates. and i would urge us all to remember, were operating in an environment where there is no human access. the only parameters we have are two-dimensional video presentation and, remote sensing we can do down there and while it goes on, ultimately we have to know the extent ...