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That eliminated the need for those tropical storm warnings. it s still a huge system. there is rain stretching almost from miami all the way to houston. and it s expected to dump about 3 to 5 inches of rain on the gulf coast over the next 24 to 36 hours or so. there could still be gusts of 30 miles per hour or more and because of that storm, they stopped the drilling on that relief well. they also stopped all skimming operations, sent ships back to shore. stopped beach clean up as well. all of those works will come back when the storm passes through. they may not need that relief well when the top kill is done next week. shepard: we re hearing the top man is about ready to move on. thad allen says it s time to move on to the next phase recovering the broken blow out preventer 5,000 miles below the surface of the sea. hopes to hang it up sometime in late september early october, ....
Collected and the rest careened up by the skimming operations. i want to be very clear, as the president was, that our commitment to those families, to those communities, in and along the gulf coast, remains the same as it always has been. reporter: i promise you those are warm, welcome words in the gulf coast south because the people here know this disaster is far from over. shepard: what s up at the well site today? admiral thad allen has a tough decision. he knows the mud overcame the pressure of the oil trying to escape. now he s deciding whether or not to use the same choke line to pump cement into the well hole. we don t know at this hour. we could learn later today. we know he made it clear he wants to continue with the ....
Ruptured well has been captured. it has been recovered through the containment cap, skimming operations and controlled burns. now, 25% has evaporated or dissolved and that s considered a lowball estimate, by the way. 24% has been dispersed, broken into smaller drop let s, either by natural means or the chemical solvents. that leaves 26% of all the oil that has poured from that leak. it has either washed up on shore or still remains at sea, either on the surface of that of the ocean or, of course, beneath it. now cnn s jim acosta is joining us live from new orleans. so taking all of this into account, and reading this noaa report that was released to the new york times, is the impact as bad as we thought, jim? boy, that s a good question, kyra, i have to say that we heard a lot of these good news announcements in the past. and, you know and then a couple days later, a parish president will come out and say, ....
Catch of the season and instead using their boats to skim up the water and bob dudley, the american as you pointed out, will be the ceo of bp coming up in october said in his words essentially, that the folks down here in the gulf can really start to scale back the skimming operations because no new oil has been discovered in this area, in about several weeks or so. we actually have pictures from st. tamney parish, the government releasing the pictures and saying, look, there may not be new oil coming out of the gusher, but sensitive marsh lands. back to you. chris gutierrez live in slidele this morning. could they get a good public relations firm to be in discussion with these guys? maybe sometimes the truth leaks out and the truth leaks out and they are planning to scale back the cleanup. i don t know that he was, he was he misspoke. look. he maybe shouldn t have said that. they re up there doing the flyovers and they re not seeing the oil underneath. besides it s undern ....
The whole delay on this operation is going to be on the order of five to seven days. but that s certainly better than 10 to 14 which we once feared. skimming operations also have been halted, at least temporarily, for this storm. but they ve slowed down as well because they ve done a really good job over the last eight, nine days with the help of the well cap. i ve had the opportunity to talk to some of these hard-working people trying to clean up the gulf of mexico. one was a u.s. coast guard cutter. on the deck of that skimmer, it s pretty slippery and dirty work. check it out. using the equivalent of a leaf blower to blow up these booms and get them filled up with air like balloons. how much of a mess does that look like? and it hasn t even started skimming yet. what s the process? first, you ve got to make sure that ain t tangled. lift it up off the deck and then ....