will happen. and since the catastrophe struck, bp has struggled not only to contain the gushing well, but with the pr nightmare s that s followed. joining me live is bob fibbs, the retail guide to grooming your business. appears bp could have taken a page out of your handbook, blunder after blunder, now they re turning to these tv ads, how effective is this? it s like your dad got caught cheating on your mom, and you re trying to say, look, look at what i m doing. this is the time to remain dark. they also are shifting the focus on who s in those ads. they re now focusing on a newer tv ad. let s take a look at it. i m darrell willis, i oversee bp s claim process on the gulf.
oil per day. the coast guard says it will likely go to 53,000 barrels of oil by the end of the month and sometime in july they hope to change over to another mechanism to capture between 60,000 and 80,000 barrels of oil per day. they hope to get about 90% of the oil that s coming out of that well. the other good news is the relief well is now about 11,000 feet below the floor of the gulf of mexico. it still has another 2,000 feet to go and then it will carefully enter the well bore of the broken well and then pump thousands of pounds of mud and cement into that well and that spill cam that we ve been watching will finally slowly come to a stop. lynne? that s what we re all waiting for. i also want to ask you about this new development with admiral thad allen saying, okay, we re capturing now 1 million gallons of oil each day, yet every day we continue to see that picture that you re looking at right there on the bottom of your skreechb that shows the gushing well, we see the birds co
has to say about guns and democrats. google says, sorry, the internet giant admits it s been collecting people s personal information for years. why it s now raising big privacy fears. history on the high seas, a teenager completes a remarkable feat for the first time ever. good morning, everyone, i m alex witt, welcome to msnbc saturday. it s 58 a.m. on the east coast and five a.m. out west. we re following new developments in the gulf of mexico oil disaster. they are attempting to fit a rubber stopper into the pipe that s gushing the oil. one expert says if it works, it could siphon off a significant amount of the leak. meantime, growing disagreement about how much oil is spilling from the gushing well, the government estimates 210,000 gallons a day but it was before the video was released showing the busted pipe, it could be 2 million gallons a day or more. and federal regulators have approved the dispersant shoot
right? reporter: and keep in mind, that we ve kind of used a coffee cup analogy, that it s like a coffee cup, they re trying to place this thing on, which you said is the sprinkler, that gushing well, and you had that straw coming out of the coffee cup, that goes to the surface but there s going to be wiggling around and once you drop it, they believe it will sink 15 feet into the mud on the seabed, but then you have to make sure that it doesn t tilt up. it s 40 feet high. if it tilts off to the side, you have the oil seeping underneath. there are a million logistical problems with this, and if they can just place it over the cap, they think that will take care of a lot of their concerns. martha: what about the burning of the oil, trace? how is that going? reporter: it s going slow, like the rest of the project out here. they went out yesterday and they take these fire booms, which a way to corral. they tried 75,000 gallons yesterday. you have to corral this oil, then you light it
where everything we did had to be done through remotely operated vehicles. what s your assessment, can the four-story containment dome that it s being called, once it s lowered over the gushing well, can it contain the situation? well, i think it s a very encouraging development, but i think we ve learned throughout the event as it s progressed and things have changed, we shouldn t bank that this will be a final solution or we ll be ultimately completely successful. we re looking at something while it s been successful in 200 or 300 feet of water following hurricanes katrina and rita has never been done at this depth and there are a number of technical difficulties associated with it that will have to be overcome. when will we know whether or not it has succeeded? well, they plan to put it down sometime later this weekend, but one of the problems we have is we re bringing warm oil product which is also mixed with natural gas and water up from 18,000 feet and as it passes throug