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60,000 barrels of oil still spewing out every single day. that is a lot higher than the previous estimate. we will talk about this with steven worly who is an associate engineering professor at purdue university and a member of the government's flow rate technical group that came out with this 35 to 60,000 barrel a day estimate. are you satisfied, professor w that estimate or could it be more? >> well, first of all, i should say that i am very satisfied with that measurement. i think it is a result of a scientific process, and i got absolutely no sense that politics was involved in it. i think...

White house, and suzanne, thanks for the heads-up. the president could be running late, we shouldn't be surprised. suzanne malveaux from washington. estimates of the amount of oil gushing into the gulf, guess what, they keep rising. government scientists now saying between 35 and 60,000 barrels are spewing out each day. that estimate last week was right around 20 to 40,000 barrels. now, these new numbers translate to as much as 2.5 million in gallons a day. and it's the fifth time here the flow rate estimate has been adjusted. >> we're estimating 1,000 barrels per day. >> somewhere between 1...

They said they had to stop collecting oil from the broken pipe for about five hours. the joint information center tells cnn that containment opplations resumed at 3:15 eastern time. at the rate they've been collecting that's between 3,000 and 4,000 barrels that they probably could not collect, wolf. >> if you were looking at the live feed coming out, could you tell more was coming out because they weren't collecting the oil during those hours? >> well, we've got some images to show you which may or may not give you an indication here. on the left is a broken oil pipe with the cap over it. this...

Up, and up and up some more. the federal government is estimating that the flow rate is between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels of oil each and every day. consider this. in the first days bp estimated the flow rate at 1,000 barrels a day. the government upped that number to 5,000, but a special flow rate technical group of government and independent scientists later put it even higher at 12 to 19,000 barrels a day. last week, they revised the estimate upwards to 20 to 40,000 barrels, and now, we have this new number, 35 to 65,000 barrels a day. the top number is a 50% increase from the previous high...

15,000 barrels right now over a 24-hour period, we don't know if 10,000 barrels are still spewing in or 30,000 or 40,000. the answer is, we really don't know how much oil is still going into the gulf as we speak right now? >> wolf, we're not going to know until we can actually seal the pipe, produce the oil that's coming out there, and actually get an empirically measured production based on the pressures. we will be able to do that as we move the new oil containment system in that's going to be replacing the one we have right now over the next two to three weeks. so, we hope to actually cap t...