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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...

Legitimate claims. and they have to set up these assistance centers. there's a whole bureaucracy that has to be kicked into operation to make the government look efficient and it's a private company so the federal government isn't about to nationalize bp but, boy, i think they really have to make sure all the good scientists get in there. if this latest attempt doesn't stop the oil flow, i think you're going to see a lot of pressure to get scientists from other companies, from u.s. facilities. more people, more eyes on this problem. because it's really horrific. >> it is. we're coming up to a ...

Oil, 5000 feet under the surface of the ocean. let me explain the procedure that i speak to you is now taking place. what engineers and scientists of bp are trying to do is they're essentially trying to take the equivalent of a straw, 6-inch diameter tube, and place it into 21-inch diameter pipeline that is leaking, then they want to siphon off the oil and bring it to the surface. complicating matters, the smaller 6-inch tube has wings that have to be deployed or flaps that have to essentially fill up the sides of the larger pipe so that oil doesn't continue to spill into the ocean and another...

Tires, golf balls, into the blowout preventer to clog it. the blowout preventer, remember, is the emergency brake on the oil flow. it's supposed to be a fail-safe system. it did not work here. and yesterday in washington, it was the focus of a lot of criticism from a house panel, particularly because bp said there was a hydraulic leak in the blowout preventer, and the battery was dead on what was supposed to be the dead man's switch. monica? >> okay. anne thompson, thanks for that update. amazing video. well, despite the devastating gulf oil spill, most americans say drill, baby, drill. that...

Companies. the western companies pull out, the iranian companies can't do the work, the oil flow dries up, sounds great, except that is not how it seems to be working out. much of what used to be done by foreign companies has now been taken of wire local companies are owned and run by iran's revolutionary guard. these companies are now minting money and the revolutionary guard are gaining greater control over iran's economy, society and politics. you see, if you thought the revolutionary guard were just the thugs who beat protesters up, you only know part of the story. after the iran/iraq wore...