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Anchoring system down. we are looking towards potentially next tuesday bringing an additional production vessel online. that will get us to the previously briefed 53,000 barrel a day capacity. that's notwithstanding the removal of the containment cap today for the issue that i've just talked about. on a more somber note, we had two deaths reported on people who were involved in this response earlier today. one was an accident regarding a swimming pool -- swimming event, and another one was a vessel of opportunity operator in gulf shores, mississippi. our thoughts and prayers go out to their fa...

But in fact two people involved with the response have been killed. we believe they were civilians and not a part of the coast guard, military or anything like that. but people who were actually working down there have been killed. not a lot of details but we did hear from admiral thad allen some details he gave us just a short time ago. take a listen. >> we had two deaths reported on people involved in this response earlier today. one was an accident regarding a swimming event and the other was a vessel operator in gulf shores, mississippi. our thoughts and prayers go out to their families. t...

Thing to happen, and we understand the gulf shore's police department is following up on the death of the vessel of opportunity operator. >> you hear there are not a lot of details from admiral allen. let's bring in our chris lawrence who can possibly give us more details about what's going on right now. chris, hello to you, and really some astonishing news on a couple fronts. one, the fact of the two deaths, but also the fact that the containment cap is not on. and we want to handle both of those things. let's go first with just the pictures we're seeing with oil going into the gulf, with not...

Cleanup effort. >> on a more somber note, we had two deaths reported people involved in this response earlier today. one was an accident regarding a swimming pool, a swimming event, and the other one was a vessel of opportunity operator. >> let's get more from michelle franzen live from pensacola beach where we're seeing more oil wash ashore on the heels now of this breaking news of this containment cap is off and we saw the late he is images of more oil now dwushing. all of that back into the gulf. >> reporter: that's exactly right. certainly problems offshore, problems on shore. let's give y...