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Oil spill in united states history. all that happy talk about how much safer everything is now, they are using the same equipment used in the bp disaster. happy talk or not. joining us now, former oil industry executive bob cavnar, that 30-year veteran that we consulted with today. currently coe of a company in the natural gas industry. before that, he was president and ceo of an oil and gas drilling exploration firm. he is author of the book disaster on the horizon. the story behind the deepwater horizon blowout. thanks for being here. >> happy to be here. >> what do we know about the transoc...

Helps to disperse it. can't say whether that happened positively or negatively. there were some pretty strong onshore wents. even though the system fell apart, it still had winds of 25, 30 miles per hour, and pushing all of that oil closer to shoreline and there was some interaction of the shoreline near grand aisle but no significant infiltration since bonnie came through. that's the good news with bonnie. any time a weather systems come through and the-thare you get t churng, having the well capped has been a main factor that the amount of oil we've been sablt see is greatly diminished. >> w...

About the allegations. details will come next week. rangel says bring it on. he says he's glad to have a chance to respond. let's talk about tropical storm bonnie, hours from florida, but the greater danger lies just beyond in the area of the gulf oil spill. on this 95th day of the disaster, the storm presents a double threat. it may push the oil into new areas and delay the efforts to shut down the leak permanently. rob marciano joins us from gulf shores, alabama. what's the latest on the evacuations? >> they pulled the trigger last night, and they will get all personnel and vessels out of ...

The gulf of mexico. they have been pulled back? are they all back in there, rob? what's the situation on the gulf, on the clean-up efforts? >> they pretty much pulled the trigger on evacuation of just about everything and is the larger vessels and the larger rigs will take some time to get them moving. but the order has been given to move the drill ship that is drilling the relief well, and that does take some time. they think it will be on the move later on tonight. the last thing that's going to leave that area are the vessels and personnel that are monitoring the capped well as it is. and t...

Everyone, absolutely everybody, and i can assure you that all of bp want to move on with this as quickly as we can to get this flow stopped, and we need to make sure we get you guys information as quickly as we can, and hopefully we can get it faster next time. >> are the q 14 and the other producers shut down as well? >> no, they are capturing oil. so the q-4,000 on a typical day will capture 8,000 barrels. as of late this morning, the helix producer was up to a rate of 12,000 barrels a day. of course, we also have the drill ship "enterprise" that we can bring back in if necessary to put back...