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Right now, my official position is it will be the middle of august before the well is capped. it's helping as well a turn for the better for the weather and now skimming boats are restarting their clean-up efforts, they were put on hold during hurricane alex. rough seas also delayed plans to hook up the helix-producer which could bring in up to 25,000 barrels of oil a day from the well. now that would increase the overall daily collection capacity to 53,000 barrels of oil a day. bp says it's recovered about 24,575 barrels on wednesday, bringing the total number of barrels removed from the ...

706,700. meantime, oral arguments challenging the obama administration's six-month ban on exploratory deep water drilling begin this afternoon in louisiana. this follows a scathing report released by an advocacy group of extensive oil ties by the judge. jim walsh joins us to talk about the terror arrests. it's interesting with mattis, him being reld recommended, considering the question that barbara star asked about the press conference. why him with that in his past? >> i think this was a really interesting press conference. i'm glad you carried so much of it live. what i saw was a real ten...