existing cap saturday which means for three or four days oil and gas will escape in the gulf unchecked. after the pipe is recut for a more snug fit, a new dome-like cap will be lowered to the well head to seal it shut. while oil collection shifts above, we ll be able to double the amount of oil captured each day, plugging b.p. s gusher permanently, to still rely on the relief well. intercepting the well at 18,000 feet down, cementing it shut and according to the plan, stopping the flow of oil in the gulf once and for all. it will be the middle of august until we actually cap the well. it could be sooner than that. we will be delighted if it would be. a new weapon is floating on the scene. delayed for days by storming weather, the air ship is now above alabama coastline, due to the slow speed and low altitude, eyes in the sky will better direct crews on the ground and in the water where to go to skim and collect oil and lay boom. in lake pontchartrain, near new orleans, men and wome
should quit bashing bp, since they are the only ones who have the expertise to fix it. he says just fix the problem, worry about emoting later. a direct shot? that s a shot that s dam near a declaration of candidacy. i got a real insight into the oil spill. i have a big article on dickmorris.com explaining it. i had a tour ever alabama over the weekend. i spoke to disaster officials. sean: who did you speak to? governor, bob reilly and a been. of his disaster people. they decided early on to get the heaviest, biggest booms they could, seven meters high, tons each of weight, and erect them to shield all 170 miles of the alabama coastline. they did. then they then the coast guard decided to uproot them all and move them to louisiana. sean: why? it occur two days after
nic robertson, thanks so much. all right. back in this country now, 3.5 million gallons. that s how much oil officials say has spilled from that broken bp well head in the gulf of mexico. and 210,000 gallons are added to that total every day. balls of tar, some as big as golf balls, are already washing up along the alabama coastline as you see right there. crews are trying to catch the crude with nearly 200 miles of boom. along with controlled burns and chemical dispersants. at a news conference today, bp officials said they are also getting help from the community. we re recruiting vessels, local vessels, to help us out with the protection of the shoreline and the collection of oil, if necessary. and we want to use the local knowledge and the capabilities that these vessels and owners and crew provide us so that we can do a better job with the cleanup. crews are out at sea and they re reviewing several options to plug up that leak.
shore, some say three. it bears watching and protecting. there have been 275,000 feet of the protective boom stretching across the region in louisiana and mississippi, back into florida and alabama. they have another 3,000 of the protective boom they are going to put out. they have on back order, 5,000 feet. about a million will be put along the coastline to protect the wildlife and the economy. the economic impact it s going to have on the region in terms of seafood, shrimpers and the people who collect the oysters and tourism. alabama coastline and florida coastline. you have the pristine beaches called the emerald coast. with the oil, it s going to keep people away from the beaches. what they are going to do is put that out. some of the protective boom to
on the concerns we have. juliet: bobby vind al says he is starting to see the sheen hitting his coast. what are seeing right now when you look out on the water. any effects on the environment or coastline? we don t have any landfall in alabama, but the problem we see is simple thunderstorm came up. all the protection devices washed occupy the shoreline. that is our mainline of defense. i can only imagine when we get the sheen comes aboard. juliet: what kinds of ru talking about? all the booms around the coastline. we had a thunderstorm coming through and you saw the flooding coming through tennessee. that storm came through and we lost a good bit of the protective barriers along our coastline. juliet: i remember covering a hurricane. i was in your town.