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That they have had time -- last 24 hours is that they have had time to engineer the equipment, and do desktop exercises to understand how it will come together, and they started from ground zero in building the equipment. so it was not something that was decided not to be a good idea, because we knew it would be from the start, but the question was how to build it and get it to the scene. >> reporter: but what about when people say, they are just throwing stuff up against the wall to see what sticks? what do you have comment on that? >> well, there are other oil producing companies, and all al...

>> mike, it's probably somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 this morning. the cost associated is being paid for something out of the oil spill liability trust fund. all those charges will be back-charged and recovered from british petroleum. >> one other question, admiral. this sounds bizarre, but, i mean, do we know how much oil is in the gulf? i mean, this has been spewing like this now for weeks. tremendous natural resource, i think many people were unaware of. how many oil is there beneath the shell of the gulf? >> well, you're asking a really good question and people have been talking abou...

This entire response and i've been doing this for over 30 years is that there's no human access to the point of discharge and that's something that's very, very different and anomalous about this event. >> are you satisfied about the response of bp and the rate that they're moving in. it's been almost four weeks now and there have been failures and learning about some of the things that went wrong leading up to the explosion? do you trust them to move in a timely fashion? >> in my view, bp's been relentless in our oversight because we all understand the mistakes here. there have been different...

This point, let's head to the front line gulf disaster. and joining us now from biloxi, mississippi, the commandant of the u.s. coast guard, admiral thad allen. admiral, is it 5,000 barrels a day that's spewing out? 50,000 barrels a day? 70,000 barrels a day? we're confused right now based on all these reports. >> wolf, i heard the same reports, too, if i could just comment in this regard. whether it's 1,000 or 5,000 barrels a day or 50,000 barrels a day, we have planned from the start for a catastrophic spill, so we have not been constrained in our planning by the fact that it was 5,000 barre...

Let's talk about estimates. we first thought 1,000 or 5,000. frankly whether it's one, five, 10 or 15, or mobilization of resources is far beyond that. we're prepared for a catastrophic event. we have not been contained in our tactics by flow estimates. i urge us all to remember we're operating in environment where there's no human access. the only parameters we have are two-dimensional video presentation and any remote sensing we can do down there. while all that goes on, ultimately we're going to have to know the extent of the spill for natural resource and things. as far as the current resp...