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Florida state university oceanographer says it could be four to five times that estimate. there's a fellow from purdue university who took a look at the flow of the oil coming out of the riser pipe and said it could be as much as 70,000 barrels a day. do you really have any kind of accurate idea of how much oil is spewing? >> you know, john, there's only two things we can actually know for certain. one is we can watch the flow coming out of the pipe. and we know that basically it's been pretty constant over this time period since the beginning. we watched it from the start. the other thing we ...

How many barrels a day are spewing out of this? >> well, wolf, we got a two-dimensional picture on video and we got some people trying to figure out what the total might be, but in the meantime if we wait until how much is coming out of it, we're not conducting a response on the order we need to. we always erred on the side it could be a catastrophic spill and we planned in that regard. >> commandant, do you have confidence in the executives at bp, that they're telling you the truth, that they're telling you everything they know? >> i'm in frequent communication with the executives in bp, wolf...

Besides the thousands more gallons of oil that spewed into the gulf of mexico today, new developments to report in the ultradisaster in the gulf. first, the attempt to cover the gusher with a smaller containment dome, the thing they're calling a top hat, that did not happen. bp reportedly had concerns that ice crystals might form inside that thing the same way they formed inside the larger containment dome when that effort failed a few days ago. bp is preparing to insert a narrow pipe right into the spot where the oil is gushing tauping to be able to siphon the crude into a tanker. the riser p...

Besides the thousands more barrels of oil that spewed into the gulf of mexico today, there are two other developments to report in the bp ultra-disaster in the gulf. first, the attempt to cover the gusher with a smaller containment dome, the thing they're calling a top hat, that did not happen. bp reportedly had concerns that ice crystals might form inside that thing the same way they formed inside the larger containment dome when that effort failed a few days ago. bp is instead preparing to insert a narrow pipe right into the spot where the oil is gushing hoping to be able to siphon the crude...

Gasket into the riser pipe that's spewing oil. if it works, the gasket will seal the leak, and the new section of pipe would carry the crude to ships on the surface. bp says it could happen as early as tonight. meanwhile, the military is taking part in efforts to contain some of the 4 million gallons of oil already spilled. 4 million. cnn's david mattingly is on louisiana's elmer's island with that part of the story. >> reporter: when you got here, this is where the island ended? >> that's correct. you could see the shoreline right there. >> reporter: so, you've built everything from here al...