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Louisiana, this morning. anne, good morning. >> good morning, salve van nah. like everything else involved in this crisis it is not going well and the reason this time is the weather. bp hoped to put online smug called the helix producer, that would be the third containment system and essentially double their ability to capture the oil going from about 25,000 barrels a day, which they are at to 50,000 barrels a day, some say as much as 53,000 barrels a day that would gift vast majority of the upper end of the flow estimate, 1wi6 0,000 barrels a day. but tropical storm, then hurricane alex came...

And his administration need to do a lot more to show they are on top of this mess and not perpetually behind the curve. and the coast guard awaits an answer to its friday letter released to the public directing the ceo of bp to stop the leak and hurry. quote, bp must identify in the next 48 hours additional leak containment capacity that could be operationalized and expedited to avoid the continued discharge of oil. just how much oil is discharging remains an ever-changing calculation. >> there's no crude oil at this time leaking from the wellhead. >> what we now know we are dealing with in ad...

Taxpayer and the people in the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: markey told me that after this well integrity test, once there are enough oil collection ships in place to collect all of the oil that could come out of the well, it should be allowed to flow freely so that an exact number of barrels can be calculate friday what all of the ships are collecting. >> bottom line in all of this, the civil penalties, they're going to be paying a lot of money. >> no matter what they are going to be paying a lot of money, certainly a lot more money if gross negligence is proven. when you look at that large r...

Spilling untold thousands of barrels more. the new one goes from next week to next month. why? because 53 days into this, only now are they bringing in additional ships from as far away as the north sea which may or may not have enough capacity. unlike the two vessels on-site which we know fall woefully short of the 40,000 barrel estimate we just got yesterday. >> first of all, i think we're still dealing with the flow estimate and we're still trying to refine those numbers. one portion of the work as we've just indicated came up with a higher flow rate. as it stands right now, the actually pr...

The ceo of bp to stop the leak and hurry. "bp must identify in the next 48 hours additional leak containment capacity that could be operationalized and expedited to avoid the continued discharge of oil. just how much oil is discharging remains an ever-changing calculation. >> there's no crude oil at this time leaking from the wellhead. what we now know we are dealing with in addition to that is oil emanating from the well. noaa experts believe the output can be as much as 5,000 barrels. >> we first thought it was 1,000 barrels, then we thought it was 5,000 barrels. >> the best estimates are, a...