Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100727:22:10:00
Barrels a day. >> i think that the environmental impacts of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest. >> reporter: that number was revised upward to 500,000 barrels a day. >> 500,000 is the e mate and not a bp estimate, because unified command estimate with the coast guard. >> reporter: then the government brought in an independent team of scientists and the flow rate technical group on may 27th, upped the daily flow rate between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels per day. then june 15th, the team more than doubled the estimate to 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. >> the decision made -- >> report...
Source: news source