new haven, and they re giving them this terror home for about a year. they gave them some furniture at the same time, after that year is over, who knows what the mohammed family is going to be able to do. let s all hope the economy is back after that. thank you, poppy. thanks a lot. you got it. all right. and you know, you should watch poppy harlow and ali velshi every weekend, saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern and sundays at 3:00. for something called a static kill, the bp leak repair operation seems dynamic. we re live in the gulf when we come back. she spends her wholey tweeting and status updating but this girl should be friending free-credit-score-dot-com cause all that wireless spending has done her credit score wrong with their score alerts she d have seen it coming she could have gone to work on it, but now she s bumming! vo: offer applies with enrollment in triple advantage.
we could see that big cloud of oil coming up from the bottom. it was at that time that the scientific community at large was able to see that oil and make their own estimates. and then the government put a panel together of all these scientist and now this is what we are seeing, that continued refinement as the data comes in, now looking at in the early days, it was 62,000 barrels a day and later, as they capped that well, because of depletion, there was less oil coming out. they estimated at that time it was 53,000 barrels a day. but again this entire time, they have been operating under that assumption that it was a worst-case scenario. david, the company keeps enticing us, saying we are going to try the static kill. no going to delie. try the static kill. it was supposed to happen maybe late yesterday. what s going on with the schedule? well, we just checked again just before i came out here. there s been no change that s been posted and what they have got going right now, they
reporting there in shreveport. let s move on to another story off the coast of louisiana where bp is testing a blown out well making sure they could form a process to kill it permanently. they were going to start it yesterday but the static kill was pushed back again because of a leak. we heard from the man in charge a short time ago. there was a hydraulic leak discovered last night. bp crews and contractors on scene spent the night repairing the leaks. they are repaired right now. we re going through final saf y safeties and check lists right now. nbc s kristen dahlgren is in venice, louisiana, with more on how they plan to cap the well. how is it going out there today? hey, there, contessa. it turns out it was a small setback. they re pumping an oily substance in and seeing how they think the static kill will work.
so-called static kill procedure. bp released a statement saying as engineers started the inject tifty test, they discovered a small hydraulic leak in the capping system. the test and the static kill will wait until the leak is fixed possibly by tomorrow. but even before bp s engineers have tried to pump mud and cement down the throat of the busted well, something it s tried and failed to do in similar fashion before, something it cannot now start, the company is acting as if it s succeeded. bp officials not sure they ll use the relief wells they are digging for months to plug the ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico what is long thought to be the best most sure fire method of stopping the leak for good. a bp spokesman saying, quote, precisely what the relief wells will do remains to be seen. long-term effects of dangerous chemical dispersants remaining to be seen. congressional investigators revealing that the coast guard routinely approved bp s use of
today from thad allen, the national incident commander. he is going to be able to tell us probably whether or not a static kill is going to happen today barring some announcement from bp this morning that static kill is under way. so we re still waiting and still hoping down here on the gulf. also, we talked about these new figures out about just how much oil is spilling into the gulf. there has been talk over the past several months since this spill that it was much higher than previously reported by bp. what is the final analysis, i guess, from the federal government? reporter: well, as it turns out, all of those experts who were saying that bp was intentionally low-balling how much was going into the gulf, those researchers were right. a team of federal scientists came out yesterday and said roughly 4.9 billion barrels of oil that spewed out into the gulf during this crisis. that s roughly 200 million gallons. that s a pretty key number