Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100515:00:04:00
Good evening from new york. first, bp and the government told us that oil was gushing into the gulf at the rate of 1,000 barrels a day. on april 27th, the environmental group sky truth used satellite imagery to estimate the flow at five times faster. 5,000 barrels a day. the next day, over bp's objections, the government raised its estimate to 5,000 barrels. today, in our fifth story, three separate research scientists telling national public radio using calculations on new video of the gushing pipe, they issue a rate at ten times faster, 56,000 barrels a day, possibly as many as 84,000. this ...