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Quantities of methane areç forming in the gulf creating yet another danger for marine life, even causing large schools of fish to swim away from the oil toward cleaner waters. all this just the latest blow to people who make a living along the gulf coast. one oceanographer says this is the biggest methane eruption in modern history. olt of developments today in this story, what can you tell us, charles? >> well, for the first time, the coast guard says they're capturing the greatest amount o oil yet, 25,000 barrels of oil per day being captured out of that broken well head at the bottom of t...

We're hoping it doesn't delay the fishermen getting made whole because that hasn't happened. they don't have a plan for getting the oil out of the marsh. they don't have a plan for picking it up offshore. and we asked them, you know, they are spraying the dispersants down there on the well head. that was going to keep it from coming ashore. it's coming ashore beneath the surface. so i'm like, i want an explanation of why don't we quit spraying it, let it come to the surface. it's going to be ugly black oil on the surface, it ain't going to look pretty, but at least we can see the monster and a...

Intervene on the well head. that is indeed true. >> for years big oil companies and your allies have claimed that drilling is safe. it's safe. there are no problems. but on the other hand, we've heard over and over again for the fast few months this is complex and dangerous. and bb officials said it's like operating in outer space. what you knew about the risks, i can't understand why you all would assume that nothing could go wrong. so i'm, the double speak is rather tiresome. i'm dismayed and disheartened by what has happened.

Than that. let's go live to venice, louisiana, and nbc's charles hadlock. charles, good morning. what is the latest on stopping this leak? what is this, 54 days into this catastrophe. >> reporter: that's right. right now they're concentrating on putting another containment cap on top of that broken well head. the one that is there now is only able to capture about 20,000 barrels of oil a day. it's capturing right now at the moment about 15,800 barrels per day. but much more oil than that is coming out of it. experts have taken pictures and looked at those high-definition videos from the leak c...

That there is a second leak that has not been addressed. what the company says it must do here is to completely seal off the well head and that's not exactlied to happen for at least several days, if not much longer. juliet. >> david, we also want ooh update on the environmental impact and we saw some of your stories over the weekend, with the birds being cleaned. have you had any updates on that? >> one of the things that got an a lot of attention, a group of scientists spent weeks on a research vessel in the gulf and what they said they discovered is a series of underwater plumes of oil that...