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Are we using what we have already. not only are we at the bottom of the barrel, but bp and everyone else is making it up from the beginning. bp obviously did not know what they were talking about from the jump shot and the top kill. all the way through the submarine, a couple days ago accidentally knocking over a part of the containment device at the bottom of the ocean. we are really beyond the capacity of an industry that under estimated safety. they assumed an accident could not happen. the rig could not sink. none of these things could happen. one of the reasons they are able to get away w...

New numbers on how much bp is paying out to victims. it's paying $104 million to resident as long the gulf coast, after receiving 64,000 claims so far. let's get an update on the effort to contain the gushing oil. nbc's charles hadlock is live in louisiana. it was shut down temporarily this within. what's the situation now? >> reporter: they have some flaring nozzles on the vessels up there burning off some of the oil as it comes up out of the containment device at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. yesterday one of the those clogged up and it slowed it down a while. it slowed down also becau...

Separating the patches of oil in which you have open water between and there is good and bad news in that. it is widely dispersed and is hard to manage the perimeter but, if there are shore im packs, coming ashore in smaller quantities, basically smaller subsets of what might have been a larger spill i would tell you it is changing in character over the life cycle of the event and that is not necessarily bad thing and i'll be glad to take any questions you might have for me. >> i know there is light of optimism with -- when it will be mitigated, do you have an idea of when we can see the top h...

The top hat in place today. that's a big inverted funnel and smaller than the containment device that was tried a week or so ago. subject to getting the pipe inserted to bring the pipe to the surface, we may be able to see whether or not that solution may work. i would caution everybody that this is a leak mitigation effort. it's not intended to completely capture the oil in there, but it should substantially reduce it if it's successful and we'll have to see how that goes. british petroleum is proceeding with three lines of operation to permanently stop the leak, pending the relief well. one ...

Comes up, wind and currents, it's separating different patches of oil which you have open water in between. there's good and bad news in that. it's widely dispersed. it's hard to manage the perimeter. on the other hand, if there are shore impacts, it's coming to shore in small quantities, smaller subsets of what would be a larger spill. it's changing in character over the life cycle of the event. that's not necessarily a bad thing. with that, i'll take questions. >> a lot about when this is going to be mitigated or contained. has bp given you an idea when we'll see top hat, injector. >> top ha...