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Claims, that bp has said they will do. and some sort of set aside money is popular here, and of course, we got new estimates of the flow rate, and yet again, the estimate is 60,000 barrels a day, and that is the upper range which is what independent scientists have said all along, and that is just sort of adding to the sense of disbelief that a lot of people have here, not believing what the government is saying and not believing what bp is saying. >> well, i wouldn't be shocked if next week they said 80,000 or 100,000 the way it is escalating. >> yeah, i mean, it was just last week that they ...

Have to pay for, if my airline ticket was canceled because i don't want to go to panama beach i'm going to sue bp for it. that's why it's killing. >> pat, you think that paying off laid off workers doesn't have much precedence. >> there's little legal ground. it's not going through. there's no legal precedent for paying laid off workers. the larger issue is that the civil penalties for an oil spill go from about 1100 bucks a barrel to 4300 a barrel and high end of 4300 bucks and 40,000 barrel a day flow rate. that's 117 million dollars, 170 million dollars a day. >> a day. a day in liabilities...

Falling short according to federal authorities on the site, they say the company is failing to take into account a higher flow rate of the oil. they want a new plan by tomorrow. a 16-year-old sailor has some bumps and bruises but she's safe and sound. that's what abby sunderland's family is say thing afternoon. the teenager was rescued from her yacht drifting in the indian ocean. she was trying to sail around the world by herself. okay, so world cup soccer fans, it was close. neck and neck. the u.s. taking on great britain. and guess what? the game ends in a tie, 1-1. we just took you to w...

Later? >> yeah. it is deeply troubling. i have to say, though, in my discussions with the white house, over the course of this whole disaster, something that i reported on the daily beast not so long ago, they've had the he can pecktation from the beginning this flow would not really be stopped until this relief well gets drilled, which is august. so it is going to be a long and messy period in that all the various measures, whether they have the tankers in place or not, are really not going to be able to stop completely the flow and the disaster that's unfolding. so that's one piece of it. bu...

Coast. let's go live to venice, louisiana, and charles had lock standing by. the question to you, charms, from your vantage point, anything new in the latest to stop the leak 54 days into the catastrophe? >> reporter: we just received word that the federal on-scene coordinator, james watson, has given bp 48 hours to devise a more aggressive plan to contain the leaking oil. clearly, the government and everyone else here is getting frustrated by the continuing flow of oil into the gulf of mexico. at a rate of about 16,000 barrels of oil per day. that's what's being captured. but the flow rate it...