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small-town leaders in washington pleading with his congressional committee do something now. $513 week as mayor. reporter: as mayor, he is now feeding some of its 1200 residents out of his own pocket. i ve got my own family to raise, and i just talked to my secretary, and i can promise you, i will not let no one starve on my island. reporter: roland phillips is just as worried, working on his landlocked oyster boat. b.p. s spill leaves him aificialer man out of water. it s in my blood. i love to do it. i m going to die doing it. but the situation i feel like i m already dead now. reporter: on the sea floor, by next week, b.p. could double the amount of oil it captures every day, but on shore, local leaders see much less progress. i have spent more time fighting the officials of b.p. and the coast guard than fighting the oil. reporter: one frustration among many. the worked day of b.p. s thousands of cleanup workers. in this heat, federal safety guidelin ....
estimate tonight of how much oil has been gushing into the gulf of mexico. once again, it s a lot more than we d been told. in fact, it s double the old estimate. the federal government now says until the well was capped a week ago, as much as 40,000 barrels, or 1.7 million gallons, was flowing from the well every day. that s the equivalent of an exxon validize disaster every five days. also today, b.p. agreed to speed up payments to fishermen and businesses who have suffered financial losses, and the company insisted it has the money to pay for the cleanup. we have a team of correspondents deployed tonight from the gulf to washington to london. first, strawls strauss in grand isle, louisian louisiana. mark, people down there tonight are saying, i told you so. reporter: no question about that, katie. the revised leak estimates will surprise almost no one here. and, frankly, they have bigger worries. disaster is at their shores. again today, waves of oil washed into ....
military s potential role. we have reached out to the department of defense. shepard: and now new word of when this could actually hit land. and the latest projections now shows this spill hitting the first bit of shore within hours. and it s now reported to be five times worse than we knew at this time last night. the gulf coast oil spill more than 100 miles long. and said to be headed straight toward louisiana and the mississippi river del attachment officials now call this an incident of national significance, and with good reason. the slick is within three miles of a wildlife reserve in louisiana. and when it does come ashore, and it will, the fear is that it will coat entire sections of the gulf coast. contaminate the land, kill marine wildlife and devastate entire coastal economies in a disaster that could effect this area for years to come. the potential for destruction is so great tonight that officials say they have reached out to the u.s. military for help ....