using heavy duty straps. [roaring] yeah! shepard: now you know what a camel sounds like. aside from that outburst, we re told our moses played it pretty cool during the whole ordeal a local veteran says the animal was not hurt at all. updating some of fox top stories tonight, the national incident commander retired admiral thad allen of the coast guard announced that engineers are expected to finally kill the busted bp well by sunday. tropical storm karl today making land fall in cancun at the same time igor and julia category 4 monsters have swirling in the atlantic. fox news has learned the white house is planning to cap the wall street watchdog elizabeth warren for a special consumer advocate position answering to the white house and the treasury. and on this day in 1950, u.s. marines stormed the western
welcome back to the ed show. the battleground story tonight, well, the administration says nearly 75% of the oil in the gulf is gone. poof. it s gone. i don t buy it. now, i was at the white house yesterday for a briefing with thad allen, the national incident commander handling the spill, carol browner and robert gibbs all very professional nice people and they were nice to me, i might say. they told me that only 26% of the 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the gulf are still in the water? but outside experts say the government numbers, hey, folks, this is fuzzy math at best and even if the oil has dispersed in the water, it s still there. and still toxic. it s just too small to see. the reaction around the world and from the environmental group
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
swimming advisories have been lifted at most of the state beaches. no been can be sure exactly how much damage has been done to the gulf of mexico. scientists do agree that it could take years to gauge the impact of all of the crude as well as all the chemicals. let s bring in jim acosta now live in new orleans. bp s chief operating officer doug suttles spend some time in the water over the weekend. what did he have to say about the state of the gulf of mexico right now? reporter: well, he said the state of the gulf right now is improving. they re optimistic that they can make this turn from a clean-up operation to an operation of restoring the gulf. you are absolutely right, bp and the coast guard are coming under fire over the use of those dispersants out in the gulf of mexico. a key congressman overseeing this spill fired off an angry letter to thad allen, the national incident commander, accusing bp of carpet bombing the gulf of mexico with dispersants. allen, during a confer
drilling efforts. the one on the right is almost there. that will be helpful if they pump this mud into the well to alleviate pressure to make sure it s sealed. those are basically the two efforts that are going to have to take place together. and that might mean a permanent kill of this well. i want to tell you something else. there s a critic in congress, congressman ed markey who says that bp went overboard in putting those dispersants into the ocean to disperse the oil. he said that they vastly exceeded environmental protection agency directives. now, bp denies that. so does thad allen, the national incident commander. i want you to hear what ed markey had to say, congressman ed markey and then the response from doug suttles, the chief operating officer of bp. listen to these two gentlemen back to back. even though there was an agreement in late may that the epa led that it would be used only rarely as the weeks and