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Congress today. listen to this. >> it appears our latest containment effort is now containing about 20,000 barrels a day. by the end of june, we expect to have equipment in place to handle between 40,000 to 50,000 barrels a day and mid july 60,000 to 80,000 barrels a day. >> do you buy that? >> i certainly hope he's correct, but there's need for af safety margin there, which there does not seem to be. >> explain what a safety margin means? what does that mean? >> what if, for example, the flow increased by 10% or 15% in the month of july. suddenly we have thousands or tens of thousands of barr...

Why not go now? we are not if a safety mar gyp to where they are -- margin to where they are letting them go because the 4.7 could be five this some areas and they would have to pull them back out and they do not want to repeat what happened this morning so they want the safety margin and they tell me anything from 4.5 and below is still a certain amount of risk but trending in the right direction. so, with all that being said, that's basically the thursday we have right now, they are preparing all of the applications are prepared for the new plan to go in and rescue and to recover. we have ta...

Here for recovery. so everything is in place and hopefully everything has trended well enough and when it starts, they want to make sure because we've all asked the same question, well, if it's down below five, why can't you go now. we're not in a safety margin to where they're saying they're letting them go because if that 4.7, it might be 5 in some areas, and have to pull them back out. they don't want to repeat what we had happen to us this morning. so they're going to make sure they have that safety margin and then they tell me that anything from 4.5 and below is what they feel is still a ...

Reps -- reps as they pressed plant owners on backup plans in place in case of an event the size of japan's disaster , they say it was designed to stand an earthquake 100 miles the mag nidtude of the strongest earthquake -- magnitude of the strongers earth earthquake in that region and that includes a second bear of bear -- second layer of barriers, security towers put in place, multiple redundancies in place in case the power goes down to all the systems. listen: >> we've had earthquakes in the past that never measured more than 3.6 in this area. we're designed to protect against 8.6. that's m...

>> we're designed to protect against hundreds times more than what we've experienced here before. so our protections have a large safety margin. >> it would be interesting to know what that margin is. they didn't put a jumper -- number on it. i won't accept that at face value. >> reporter: reps say you cannot compare the plant in japan to new york, saying they're different in geography and the emergency plans in place, which in the case of indian river is upgraded security systems for everything from a natural disaster to a terrorist attack, earthquake, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding. and reg...