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The good news tonight, the oil's not flowing. the bad news tonight, neither is the information. tonight as always we're keeping them honest. we have a right to know what is happening under the water and on the surface. thad allen told bp to provide information faster. he wants the information within four hours of what's going on down there. given how quickly things can change, and how slowly bp has communicated in the fast. you're wondering why the government isn't demanding four minutes. four hours would certainly be an improvement. we've been reporting on bp's stranglehold on information for...

Readings. he estimated at least a few days before the scientists start to get accurate information from those sensors. >> the ceo says he has a plan and he's going to make the deadline. but are we hearing anything from them about what that plan is and when we might hear from them? >> we haven't heard anything specifically about that plan. we know that bp has said that they will respond by the deadline. that deadline is tonight. it's already 5:00 in the afternoon here in new orleans. but they have made some hints as to things they are doing. we know that sometime this week they are going to try...

To that end, bp has talked about sort of rejiggering that top kill procedure that didn't work. that was a ship that tried to pump mud down to shut off the well. this time they use the same device, but instead of pumping mud down, it would suck oil out of there. they think they can get that going by later in this week. and the hope is that that could collect somewhere in the realm of about 400,000 gallons a day. the problem with throwing all these numbers out there to you is that right now they still don't have an accurate gauge of how much is coming out. you don't know whether to take these nu...