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The leak was 1,000 barrels per day. shortly thereafterpeople monitoring the video said it had to be at least 5,000 barrels a day. at the end of the may it was updru upgrated to 19,000 barrels a day. now this week 60,000 barrels a day. that's 2.5 million gallons a day, dylan. that's an ecological adequacy fi of the highest order. >> we're going to talk about this with matt simmons in just a second. but how much responsibility for the misrepresentation of that flow rate, which is determined by the response, because obviously the response to 1,000 or 5,000 gallons a day is very different from the...

We supposedly have an administration now that values science, right? we're all bragging about the fact that our nobel prize-winning secretary has a nobel prize. we're all bragging about the fact that he and his nobel prize are personally involved in calculating the flow rate at the oil pipe right now. but if we supposedly have all of these super-smart science-driven folks in high levels of government and we're privileging science over political expediency, finally, why are we okaying this dumb idea? even if you don't care about the stupidity of this idea itself, it does raise concerns about th...

Beginning i have not believed bp. i have not believed their numbers. that's why i forced them to put up the spill cam so that experts could analyze this flow rate. i think that the number could even go higher. i think that we are in a worst case scenario. i think bp was trying to limit their liability because they pay a fine per barrel of oil that's out there. they were lying or grossly incompetent. and i think that the livability of the gulf is, as a result, been victimized by bp. but these numbers, these are the numbers we should have known in the very beginning. if we had known it was 60,00...

Scientists said it could be 70,000, they attacked that guy and said it's inaccurate and it's alarmist. >> you know right from the beginning i have not believed bp. i have not believed their numbers. i forced them to put up the spill cam so experts could analyze this flow rate. i think that the number could even go higher. i think that we are in a worst case scenario. i think bp was trying to limit their liability because they pay a fine per barrel of oil that's out there. they were lying or grossly incompetent. and i think that the liveability of the gulf is, as a result, been victimized by bp...

Ago. one optimistic note from the president's speech, he says that within weeks, bp will be able to capture 90% of the oil spewing from the underwater leak. cnn's ed lavandara is in new orleans. is that met with relief or skepticism? what are people saying about that? >> reporter: essentially where we are at and what you hear over and over from people is this goes back to the flow rate which keeps changing -- keeps changing week by week. yesterday, late afternoon, we heard the news the new flow rate is up to now possibly 60,000 barrel as day. flowing from the oil gusher at the bottom of the ...