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a mass murderer? investigators are trying to solve this 178-year-old mystery. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. new questions are being raised about the lingering effects of the worst oil spill in u.s. history and whether federal officials are being a little too quick to declare that the disaster is mostly over. cnn's kate bolduan has been looking into conflicting figures for us and has more on what's going on. what is going on, kate? >> okay. well, wolf, the well is capped. we know that. and we are told it will soon be killed officially. but big questions do still re...

Departure to try to have the discussion to understand what are the implications long-term. we still have to deal with natural resource damage estimates and so forth. so i would be the first it admit and i wasn't the scientist taking part in this. i'm a user in this, that you can argue at the margins about is this the proper model or not. the question is, do we think we know what happened? do we have a starting point to have a discussion. and i think marshall mcnutt would say, if we have better information we could find this. but we've slowly close in on the flow rate. flow rate leads us to a t...

is still left. and naomi campbell, certainly no stranger to the courtroom. but this is a first, at least as far as we can tell. a supermodel on the witness stand out a war crimes trial. good morning, everyone, i'm brooke baldwin in for tony harris. the story, the comments right here, right now in the cnn newsroom. highlighting the struggle for out-of-work americans they're facing in critical condition. i want to you take a look at the numbers. first time claims for unemployment jumped unexpectedly last week. economists had predicted a small drop but the labor department said 67...

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...

i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the "situation room." we should find out soon whether the federal government has signed off on bp's new proposal to cover more leaking oil. a decision was promised late today. almost 100,000 barrels of oil have been collected. as we near the two-month mark in this disaster. but that's just a drop in the bucket. after researchers double their estimate of the flow rate yesterday. the obama administration says it's pouring resources into the gulf, spending about $140 million on the clean-up so far. a new warning today that oil could destroy the gulf marshla...