reconnect it that s how much they would likely miss. even without the cap they re still getting some oil out using the hookups to other pipes which send the oil to the second vessel the q 4000. yesterday they got more than 10,000 barrels recovered that way. has this happened before during the recovery effort, an accident under water that has been this costly? they did have another accident last month because of a bump similar to what happened today. the insertion tube they had in there came out and had to be reinserted. still, admiral allen described that as, quote, a pretty good record, two bumps in 60 days of work where sometimes more than a half dozen rovs are working down there at once they ve had as many as 16 of the remotely operated subs working down there at once. there is a lot of traffic. in the meantime a lot of oil is spewing. let s hope they fix this quickly, brian, thanks very much. the ultimate solution is what s called a relief well. the first well of two wells bp
of progress that we ve had over the last week. this week that went by after that containment dome failed. this is the first bit of any success they ve had to stem the flow of that oil that s been spewing out of the pipe at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. what we re seeing happening today, that plan they had in place to put the insertion tube inside the pipe and siphon oil from the pipe to a containment vessel on the surface is working but bp cannot tell us how much oil they re collecting and taking out of the water. we do know they re seeing some success and they hope to optimize the flow of the oil through that pipe in the next couple of days. at that time, they might be able to give us a harder answer over how much oil they re capturing. where do we go from here? reporter: where we go from here is something called a mud kill. this is a process that they re going to put into place seven to
what we re looking at right now, the big question is, how much of that oil leaking out of the pipe are they actually going to be able to contain? they ve said that it will contain some of that oil that s leaking into the gulf of mexico. in the past, when they were trying that big containment dome that failed, they were hoping to collect 80% to 85% of the oil that s leaking. but with this insertion tube, they haven t given us a figure yet and they weren t giving us a figure during that entire operation. that s one of the big questions now. okay, you ve had some success, is it operational and just how much of this oil that s leaking into the gulf are you actually able to collect? all right, david mattingly, thanks so much, and hopefully we ll hear some of the answers to some of those questions at 2:30 eastern time. we understand bp has scheduled a news conference for that hour, just under 30 minutes from now. we ll carry it live as it happens. all right. weather, well, it s not coope
mile beneath the surface. the plan is to siphon oil from the rupture to a ship above the site. they failed yesterday. it looks like spreading chemical disp dispersants is working. millions of gallons of crude oil has spilled in the last few weeks. they estimate the rate at 210,000 gals. reynolds wolf is live in biloxi, mississippi. we have been talking about the businesses, the fishermen, the shrimpers, are they seeing any optimistic signs out there? reporter: it is a tough thing to deal with. this is definitely a measure of frustration. seafood and oil from this slick certainly aren t going to mix. they have been taking some tremendous steps. not just fishermen but the people offshore. one of the latest has been the insertion tube that they have been placing right near the
short-term solution is to try to do something like that. the other idea is that it would siphon up to the surface. they have been taking some long-term steps also. some of the long-term solutions could be putting in two different wells. now, what they are doing is they have got two ships out there, drilling ships. they have dropped the implements needed to have those deep wells. as of friday night, one of them was down to about 3,000 feet below the surface. it is not like you can take one of these things, throw it over bored and it sin board. when it gets down there and they get all the material needed to make these wells, it is something that could take several nonmonths to implement. it is going to be with that insertion tube. let s keep our fingers crossed and our hopes high. thanks, reynolds.