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Who came up with that figure are saying this could go up like the rest of the numbers have gown. one of the big stories is this new piece of equipment they have out at scene to help siphon the oil out of the leaking well. it's called the q4-2000. this was used for the top kill operation when they were trying to flood the well with all that mud. now they are siphoning oil to the surface. once it gets in the ship they are mixing it with compressed air and shooting it down a special boom into a flare and trying to burn off as much of this oil as possible. the hope is to burn millions of gallons u...

To know. for months, we've wondered why, even on critically important operations we aren't getting realtime information, or realtime explanations. when nasa launches a space shuttle, there's an announcer explaining what is happening second by second. when bp launches an operation, silence. we have a right to know. about three weeks ago, bp sounded like they were going to change. bob dudley the guy who replaced tony hayward said this -- >> we have had a camera there looking at the oil spill that's coming out of the well from the beginning. they're done with -- there's about 14 robots down there...