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After 107 days, a milestone in the efforts to end the bp disaster. government officials in bp said the well wase saessentially sead off. thad allen gave bp the green light to cement the well. 75% of the oil that flowed into the gulf is gone, which president obama was quick to seize on. listen? a report out today by our scientists showed that the vast majority of the spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water. the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close t...

Of the oil that flowed into the gulf is gone. which president obama was quick to seize on. listen. >> a report out today by our scientists showed that the vast majority of the spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water. so the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end. and we are very pleased with that. >> not everyone agrees with that, however. that assessment, the methodology of the report isnt really clear. and the group. noaa, the gro...

Turned into tar balls and cleaned up and bury in the sand. thats whats happening to all of the oil. >> the methodology they use is not clear. and now some reputable independent scientists are raising questions about whether these figures are legit. >> a fair question as i raised before. the truth is when you talk to the people along if gulf here, some of them buy all of this, but many emphatically do not over and over again -- folks have told me again that they think the government and bp despit...

Obama was click to seize on. listen. a report out by the scientists showed the vast majority of the oil had been dispersed or removed from the water. so the long battle to stop the leak and containing the oil is close to coming to an end. were very pleased with that. >> not everyone agrees with that, however. that assessment, the methodology of the report isnt really clear. and the -- and the group -- the noaa, the group that released the report there, theyre the same ones who claim 5,000 barr...

Barrels of oil were pouring out of the well. and they say a well back down to 60,000 barrels of oil were pouring out. tom foreman joins us with the latest, tom? >> hi, anderson. the governments analysis of what happened to the nearly 5 million barrels of oil that gushed from that well is raising hope and sharp skepticism here on the coast tonight. the report says a quarter of the oil was taken care of by burning, skimming, or direct captured. another quarter, naturally evaporated or dissolve sol...

Look at this. the report says a quarter of the oil was taken care of by burning, skimming, or direct capture, another quarter naturally evaporated or dissolved, another quarter was dispersed in the water as microscopic droplets, and the last quarter is still there as what they call a light sheen on or near the surface or it has turned into tar balls and been cleaned up or buried in the sand, anderson. thats what theyre saying has happened to all this oil. >> and it sounds like good news, but the...

Speed, of course, meaning money. >> let me respond to that and come back to who should be involved in the system. when we work with contractors like a transocean, we as shell have a specific way we approach that. its called a safety case. this will be a requirement going forward. it requires that the contractor in this case, you could use transocean as an example, would identify all the risks associated with drilling that well. then they would identify and thats why they call it a bowtie analysi...

Restaurants have been folding even in 2009 when things were real bad, housing market is booming here again. unemployment has been pretty low around 6%, much lower than the national average. and that is the reality that washington policymakers and all of us are exposed to every day which is much different than the reality most people live in and i think that has a real -- i think a real effect on politics and it really amplifies how people perceive washington and amplifies the reality of the envi...

The oil spill has been stopped but will it hold? please tell us what you know. >> i only know what you know, and that is that we all hope that this2is going to be a success. but this is a little bit like a bone marrow transplant operation right now. were in the early stages. we dont know if its going to completely take. there is a well a pipe, that is thousands of feet long that now has intense pressure being applied to it. we know its fragile, we know its been traumatized and we wont know for s...

The nightmare. >> given your understanding of the methodology that as you say we all hope was successful, is it something, congressman, that could have been done prior to the 87th day? >> well, obviously, if bp had a real plan in place to deal with in spill, back 87 days ago, yes, there could have been. but obviously they had had no plan to deal with the spill at this depth any more than any other oil company did. so unfortunately bp has been forced to make it up all along. weve reached the stag...