and in islamabad, joins us on the phone. sid, it keeps getting worse and worse? definitely it does. much feared out break of cholera and they are grappling to treat symptoms who are infected by water borp disease. a government doctor says there may be 24 patients suffering from cholera. magnitude of the flood crisis has reached epic proportions beginning northwest of pakistan and affecting 2 million people according to government estimates. more than 1300 people have been killed but aid organizations place it at 1600 which may rise. they will need billions of dollars by the time rebuilding
very different tail of who survived this hurricane and how, his house except for a new branches very much intact today. jaime: mother nature is so random. thanks for the report. jon: now to the catastrophe in the gulf in just a matter of hours that bp spill could become the worst oil disaster ever in the gulf of mexico, if it hasn t happened already based on some government estimates. the amount of oil from that blown out well expected to surpass 140 million gallons at some point today. the bp spill already ranks among the top ten worst in history and the government is pinning its latest cleanup hopes on a huge tanker dubbed the a-whale, it is the world s largest oil-skimming vessel, spans the length of 3 1/2 football fields, ten stories tall. they hope to school up to 21 million gallons of oil-fouled
goes forward, there s a method of who s going to be interviewed and the questions will get asked. just to cross tail them, if you would, to make sure that we re getting honest answers. congressman, good luck you to. good luck to all the folks along the gulf. i know how concerned you are. we re all concerned. people not only here in the united states but all over the world based on the reaction we re getting. we re appreciating what you re doing. thank you, sir. latest government estimates say the amount of oil gushing from the ruptured well is much more than we originally thought. but could it be even a whole lot worse? plus, it s a critical way of trapping that spewed oil. and it involves setting it on fire. we have a firsthand report. and we ll take you to one town where residence aren t sitting by waiting for the oil to hit. they re taking matters into their own hands right now. stay with us.
about this. first of all these are the government estimates being developed by our flow rate technical team under the director of marshall mcnutt, the head of the geological survey and the best scientists in the country involved in this. i told them from the start when i set this group up, we need to challenge our assumption and refine the work and to extent that we can improve on the estimating they ve been doing that. and i told them to come back periodically and let s see if we can get it to a much better place as far as accuracy. the fact of the matter is we ll never know to a virtual certainty what that flow is until we can actually measure it through a pipe with no oil leakage, but in the meantime we need to continue to refine the estimates, and they are government estimates and they ll continue to change and hopefully get more accurate. presumably be a whole lot worse after the procedure cut took place in june, but we don t know by how much, multiple fact earnings or 20%. do y
may not sound hard to put a 6-inch tube into a 20-inch pipe but try doing it using robots 5,000 feet below the surface with the pipe spewing oil. it s a tall order and they may be tall tales. independent experts today suggest this spill could be five to ten times larger than we ve been led to believe. in fact it could be equal to three or four exxon valdez or an exxon valdez spill every four days. the truth is we don t have any way of knowing. the coast guard doesn t either. one of the questions we re asking on line is whether you believe these government estimates and these british petroleum estimates, our question of the day at fox news/shep, of it on the right. this is an interview with our