has been skimmed. but kind of an amazing figure to get from the government today in that 5 million barrels, we are told, hundreds of millions of gallons have spilled into the gulf. but now we're told that three quarters of that has gone away in some form or fashion. had a lot of people scratching their heads, how could this be possibly? but the government saying, yes, in fact, that's the case. so it leaves a lot of people wondering about, did we know, or were the predictions about just how bad this disaster was, were they accurate? of course, yes, the numbers are huge in had how much oil spilled out, but the impacts. did we really overestimate the impacts? a lot of questions being thrown about today about that. but also, a lot of questions going to be going towards thad allen and also robert gibbs and the head of noaa. the static kill operation, want to go back to that in a moment. this animation kind of gives you an idea -- try to follow for a second. that red dot is the illustration of this mud, the things they are pumping down into this well.