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>> let's talk about the situation from your assessment there. what did you see and how does it look? >> well, it's a huge spill. it's probably already, as of two days ago, bigger than all the spills associated with katrina and receipt a. at the present flow rate, it would equal the volume of the exxon valdez in about 38 more days. it's a major event, so we're very concerned. the big question is when is the flow going to be able to be stopped? >> why is that still a question, senator vitter? what is it that keeps it from being able to be stopped? where is the complication? where is the confusio...

Likely they have a large tool in the middle, that's caught in the middle that won't allow it to close but we won't know until it actually comes apart. jon: i guess they've got all of the underwater subs and so forth working on the problem. if they're not going to be able to get the valves to close, what do you see is the best prospect for getting this oil at least vacuumed up or cleaned up as it comes out of the source? >> right, the numbers sound large when you say it by the day, but it's about 133 gallons per minute, which is a workable flow rate, and they need to get a cover on top of it, a...

Spill, exxon valdez, which happened in prince william sound alaska. scientists say at the current flow rate this disaster we're watching right now will hit the 11 million-gallon mark, 11 million-gallons of oil released into the waters that. is the number that was hit by exxon valdez in just about 50 days, they're expecting we're going to get there. when the exxon valdez ran aground and cracked back in 19 # nine a quarter of a million sea birds, nearly 3000 otters, hundreds of bald eagles and killer whales, all died, not to mention billions of dollars worth of fish. my next guest says this is a...

Weekend given the already difficult conditions of this search in. >> i think that really now it's a race against the weather because once the weather moves in high winds again, if you remember the last couple days we had nine, ten-foot seas, we had low ceilings, clouds. the airplanes can't fly that low. technically they're usually at about 1,000 to 3,000, some 5,000 feet. you have low clouds like that they don't get a good view. so it's a race against the weather, if you will, and i'm hoping that they can get back on stage and probably they'll move that search a little bit based on flow rate o...

Talk about adding to the problems. and jeff is in little falls where the flooding is severe and may stay that way for at while. jeff? >>guest: she is so right. we listen to her talk, this is what we have heard from so many the flooding has never been worse. the scene at the little falls, fall. it is not little anymore. this is normally a trickle. it is now pouring over the falls at the rate we are told of 23 million gallons an hour which i don't if that means anything to you but what means something is the picture, just incredible flow rate and as carmen pointed out the flooding has continued ...