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Happens today. >> certainly the company's been battered publicly. we heard them testifying yesterday in congress. but technically, can they be forced? account president force bp to comply in terms of paying for this? >> well, we're going to use every device, legal device, at our disposal if necessary. but i believe that they understand the situation that they're in and they understand the pressure they're under to meet their obligations. we are going to make sure that they do. >> the president also said last night -- this caught a lot of people's attention -- in the coming days and weeks bp wo...

Time when people have so low confidence in government, you have to show them you can't just tell them and that has to be the thing going forward. will these changes actually make a difference for people? >> karen, great pleasure having you on. thank you. some other developments in the gulf oil disaster. bp announced just this morning that oil and gas from the gushing well are being captured or is now being captured through a second containment system. the system is bringing the oil to a rig on the surface and then being burned. government scientists have dramatically increased their estimate...

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...

The polls. if the election were held today, would president obama win a second term? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog. >> jack, thank you. just to recap, the breaking news we just reported, new government estimates just coming in, put the flow rate of gushing oil right now into the gulf of mexico anywhere between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels a day. perhaps as much as 60,000 barrels a day spewing into the gulf of mexico right now that they're capturing. 15,000, that still leaves 45,000 barrels randomly going into the gulf. mary snow is in massachusetts with a firstland lo...