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Of today and the wire services its a week ahead of schedule, have you any assurance that its going to reach target and going to relieve this problem by mid-august as they claim it will by bp? >> no assurance, chris, but its got to be tried. i mean, they have tried every other option. they have got to try this option. and they will try right through to the second well, second relief well. if that doesnt work, then they are back to what do we do now, and i think thats what were into a serious ques...

>> lets keep working on that one, because i want to make sure from a tv point of view if we have any point of view that the moral obligation holds water. lets go to this question of the relief well effort. john, based upon your expertise, do you have confidence that the relief well which were told as of today and the wire services its a week ahead of schedule, have you any assurance that its going to reach target and going to relieve this problem by mid-august as they claim it will by bp? >> no ...