place. working with the coast guard, local and state authorities we have an extensive severe weather plan so i'm confident that will work. a week ago today we got the capping stack in place and closed it in. once again, this vessel and this crew played a critical role in that. it has been a week since we've had any new oil flow into the gulf. when you fly over the gulf of mexico, you see a dramatic difference in the last week. to give you some sense of that, the week before we got the capping stack we saw skimming volumes of 25,000 barrels. every day since we have had it on they have dropped. yesterday we skipped 56 barrels. a great deal of the oil on the surface has been collected or naturally dispersed in help from mother nature. things are looking better. we should recognize our capability to fight this spill is still as big as it has ever been. we almost have 800 skimmers