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That apparently could take between five days and a few weeks and then your other option that they've been talking about is the static kill shooting mud into the existing cap, the cap that's holding the oil in place. >> right. >> would you risk that? >> i don't think so. i think the static kill will put more pressure down the well bore. everybody knows that. and it could indeed compromise the integrity of the existing well bore which is already probably compromised. that's exactly what happened with the initial top kill attempt. the safest thing to do is open things back up, connect it to surfa...

Helped the flow rate technical group reach consensus on how much oil is spewing from the well. one member says chu participated in discussions but never pushed the scientists towards a particular conclusion. >> i was happily surprised energy my opinion, politics played no role at all in this flow rate determination. it was an open scientific discourse do try to come up with the best possible estimate using multiple pieces of information of what the flow rate is. >> reporter: chu has history with bp. the company gave half a billion dollars to a national lab which when chu was its director. and ...