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We worked out the details and agreement for several hours. then the president came back in before the meeting finished around 2:30. >> greta: one of the people who attended was the attorney general of the united states eric holder. he has opened a criminal and civil investigation of the different parties involved in this oil leak. did the attorney general say anything to you about the investigation? was it mentioned at all? >> greta, it was not mentioned. the president's objectives today were to understand what the status of the leak was and the containment operations as well as our commit s t...

The government panel was delivering the bad news that the leak is worse, much worse than previously estimated. up to 60,000 barrels of oil leaking a day. nbc's tom costello is in venice, louisiana, for us this morning. tom, bring us up-to-date on the efforts to contain this leak. i know there was a lightning strike yesterday. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, there was a lightning strike on the most important rig out there. that is the ship that is helping to collect the oil that they are grabbing, 15,000, 16,000 barrels a day. that was hit by lightning yesterday. they had a fire on the s...

Scene. >> i was going to say quickly you are right. they traced the license plate back to a car apparently, the pathfinder had a license plate on it that previously belonged to a ford pickup truck. the owner disposed of the car and the plates at a junkyard and somehow those plates were either stolen or someone found them in that junkyard and placed them on vehicle that was here. it may be a dead end, there could be a connection, it is one of the things followed up. >> david lee miller, we will get back to you with the latest developments when the news conference comes. thanks, david lee. get...

With this test. but they are not offering any timeline. bp not saying when they will be able to have this fixed or how they're going to fix it or any sort of details about how bad this leak might be. only to say they have a leak in the choke line and that it has been isolated and they will fix it. yesterday, admiral thad allen was talking about this process saying there were no guarantees. again, not raising any sort of expectations. but assuring everyone that eventually they will have enough containment operations on the service to collect most if not all, of the oil that's now leaking out. s...

And talk to people and put the case together. and, that is where the cases are made. good old-fashioned police work. and that is what makes law enforcement in this country effective. >> jamie: christopher, thanks for service you gave so many years here in new york and thanks for being with us today. >> my pleasure, jamie, thank you. >> eric: jamie... now the latest on the growing oil spill, in the if you have of mexico. president -- gulf of mexico, the president will visit the region to get a first hand look at the containment operations and it is hard to estimate how much is already out there...