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Concerns over tropical storm bonnie threatening to reopen the gusher in the gulf. severe weather warnings now that are stretch from florida to louisiana, and the nation gnat incident commander thad allen ordering all ships to evacuate the spill site and take cover. steve harrigan live in grand isle, louisiana. what exactly are they saying about the containment cap that has been placed offer the well and whether it will hold and how the weather is affecting? >> reporter: megyn actually over my shoulder you might be able to see some of the ships leaving the scene. they were told yesterday at 8:0...

Periodically to get accuracy. the fact of the matter is we are never going to know what that flow is until we can measure it through a pipe with no leakage. in the meantime, we need to continue to refine these estimates, and they are government estimates and will continue to change and hopefully continue to get more accurate. >> and presumably it could be a whole lot worse after the cut procedure in earlyune took place because it was going to open it up. we don't know how much, by a factor of 20% or by multiple factors. do you right now, admiral, have any idea how much oil is still spewing out...

Barrels of oil. right now it's around 25,000. so, that project has been delayed, again, at least until next week when the seas calm down and they can begin to hook up the hoses to the riser pipe that connects the top of the oil, the top of the blowout preventer to the surface of the gulf of mexico where they're siphoning up the oil and burning some of it and taking it away in tankers. >> and this ginormous skimmer, pictures on scene. >> we are waiting to see how it works but we don't know what the parameters are if it can operate in seas and some buoys out there were reporting 12-foot waves. w...

Inoculated himself politically by choosing general petraeus with richard wolffe, how the men and women in the field may react. day 65 in the gulf. >> discover enterprise removed the containment cap with the riser pipe and moved away until they could assess the condition. >> translation, a robot collided with the well cap increasing the gusher. worst yet, you can't stop it. you may not even be able to hope to contain it. the doomsday scenario positive on a petroleum geologist website. the pipes may be leaking and there may be no way to ever stop it. just back from the gulf, our guest bob kvana....

According to government scientists up to 60,000 barrels a day are gushing. we have no way to confirm that number. a new containment cap and additional ship will be in place in the next few days. phil keating live with the latest in is clearly a good thing. what does it mean for several days oil and gulf will be spewing into the gulf, unchecked? >> reporter: yeah, three, four days over the weekend into early next week like the first days and weeks of this now 11 week old disaster when oil and methane gas was spewing uncheck add into the gulf. a short term negative for the long term positive. wh...