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Come back and they don't show up. in the meantime you have heavy rains and flash flooding. the rescue teams were scrambling because in the very aim area last june flash floods came and swept away 20 campers to their death. this time the rescuers new the little missouri river that flows through there was three times the flow rate. they sent a helicopter sunday but it had to turn back because of bad weather. it wasn't until late last night they finally spotted a campfire and early this morning they went in and plucked the six boy scouts and two guides out of the area, brought them home to their ...

Coast guard commandant here in the studio. thad allen, welcome. let's start with the spill cam, it was always up there 24/7, pulsating. did those images accomplish anything? >> first of all, i thought it created transparency on the response. early on there were issues whether or not bp was releasing the video. we had a long conversation. we knew it was inevitable this stuff had to be seen by the public. we made it the policy we would be releasing it. also that video was the only information we had what was going on down at the flow and was used to analyze the flow rate. >> this is a story that...

The one that said 75% of the oil is taken care of. the more i read it, the less satisfied i am with the thoroughness of the presentation. there are sweeping assumptions here. how do you feel about the report when we read, okay, we're just going to have to deal with this quarter that's left. are you confident that that's -- that what this report encompasses is true? >> i go back to flow rate. early on there were huge questions about how much oil was actually coming out of the well. as you know, it went from one to five to 12 to 25,000. we finally got a range that was developed by a government t...

Barrels a day with a 10% error rate on either side of it. once you know the flow rate and you know the well is capped, then you know there's a proximate total amount of oil discharged in this event. that raises the question, what oil went where and what was done with it. this is the first attempt to lay that out there and start to have this conversation. i don't think it's an end all, be all, but it's more information than we had before. >> bp said it's learned a lot during this whole process. i'm assuming you learned a lot as well. personally speaking from what you've seen, from the cleanup t...

Quarter that's left. are you confident that that's what this report encompasses is true? >> i go back to flow rate. early on there were huge questions about how much oil was actually coming out of the well. as you know it went from one to five to 12 to 25,000. we finally got a range that was developed by a government team of the 35 to 60,000 barrels a day. just in the last few weeks we've been able through pressure readings on the well and better information, have been able to bring that down to 53,000 barrel ace day with a 10% error rate on either side of it. once you know the flow rate and y...