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Impact could be four times worse. and that's even more troublesome in light of what we learned today about the time line for capturing more oil on the gulf floor. >> between the middle of june and the first week or so of july, we're going to start incrementally moring system and vessel systems linked to shuttle greater flow rate. at that point once we know we can do that we will shift to containment cap to a more hard cap which will help to us capture more if not all of the oil that's coming out of the wellhead. >> shepard: again that will not happen until at least july. and the relief wells t...

Yes, of course. >> it is a little ridiculous when you think about it. ed, that so many days into this that some of these scientists and we'll be speaking with one of them in the next hour. professor ira lifer at santa barbara who is involved in this flow rate technical committee, only in recent days has he had access to stuff he really needed over the past several weeks. this is a little ridiculous, isn't it? >> it is. bp has acted like this is something going on their board room and they're talking financial statements. the bottom line is this is a environmental disaster we have never seen in...

About this. first of all these are the government estimates being developed by our flow rate technical team under the director of marshall mcnutt, the head of the geological survey and the best scientists in the country involved in this. i told them from the start when i set this group up, we need to challenge our assumption and refine the work and to extent that we can improve on the estimating they've been doing that. and i told them to come back periodically and let's see if we can get it to a much better place as far as accuracy. the fact of the matter is we'll never know to a virtual cert...

Biggest leak. the idea of trying to do that is incredibly difficult. you are taking a six-inch pipe into a leak that has a tremendous flow rate. that could be anywhere from, they are guesstimating 5,000 to 70,000 barrels a day. they are using three rovs, underwater robots. they are trying to put that in position to siphon the fuel. they will be able to siphon about 85% of the oil if they are lucky and put it in a tanker ship and bring it back to shofrmt that's one of the options they are using this morning to help protect the shore and the marine life. >> if it was only as simple as the animat...

Wounding four. the military says it is confident it can regain control. the violence has already killed 17 people and wounded 141 others. the one thing we do know is on the evening of april 20th, there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the cement, the casing or both. >> any kind of test would have looked you'd see the thing is wired wrong. all you do is check the batteries. >> people are canceling their vacations, their fishing trips. >> what i can tell you is that flow rate looks pretty much the same as it's always looked. >> we continue to remove oil from the surface. preliminary figure...