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Space station to keep it from striking space debris. those of your fast five headlines. let's get the latest on the oil leak in the gulf of mexico, and joining us is david usher, chairman of marine pollution control. david, good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm fine, thanks. let's get right to the mess in the gulf, because let's talk about the big debate as to just how much oil is leaking out there. >> of course, it is a problem. one of the things that i think about that i haven't heard is how much of a dissipation there is. usually in vessels that carry the material, the light ...

In the water -- the water or the swamp or -- >> okay. well, david usher, thanks so much for weighing in. appreciate that. >> take care. well, actor and environmental -- environmental activist is weighing in on the environmental disaster. costner and his business partners are showing their oil device in new orleans. it works by using sente ining c the water is on one side and the diesel is on the other. it cleans the water up to 97%. >> i'm just really happy that the light of day is being -- has come to this, and i'm very sad about why it is, but this is why it was developed, and like anythin...

>> so, david, can you put into perspective -- i'm curious the perspective, though. at one point 210,000 gallons a day, now potentially 2 million gallons a day that are leaking. what is the difference in the environmental impact between those two figures? >> well, obviously, the volume is concerning. this is a different type of crude product than we've dealt with in the past, that is to say how it's landed, and i'm sure the 5,000-foot problem of coming up has taken some of the light ends out and when it hits the air, there's an added amount that would be taken. these are what we call light ends...

>> yes. >> -- than float costs. >> david, i'm curious, do you think bp had anything at all in place to deal with a nightmare situation like this before it happened? >> well, i really don't know. i'll tell you, the offshore drilling is isn't an area that h of us have dealt with. there hasn't been that many problems that have occurred. and as i said, the characteristics of the material is different than the normal types of response that we utilize our efforts in. >> yeah. you know, people are working around the clock on this. do you think there's any way someone is going to come up with suddenly...