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Second storm now coming in. there s a new oil web site where you can get the information you want. we ll disclose that to you moments away. meanwhile, david cameron, the new prime minister of england is coming to town on the 20th of july. they said we d love to have some gad news for him and have the hole plugged by the 27th of july. the window that b.p. has given between the july 20th and the 27th. they will plug it. yesterday, wall street liked that news and b.p. s stock went up 4%. today, the oil drilling industry going head to head with the obama administration in a louisiana courtroom. the white house working to reinstate now that moratorium suspending deep water drilling for six months. malini wilkes live for us in washington today with more. all right, malini, so they re going to go to court again and they want to stop all off-shore drilling, right? that s right. today, the obama administration will argue that the six month ban on deep water drilling is needed to allow m ....
Ten days, it s hurricane season, nothing is guaranteed, bp couching this expectation as saying it is, quote, unlikely. martha: what about this weather? we ve seen the two vessels hoping to step up the skimming efforts. is more bad weather coming there? the word is today and tomorrow could be adverse. however, starting friday, there might be a 9-day window of some pretty clear weather. it s gorgeous in bell chase right now but yesterday, along the beaches around the gulf of mexico and grand isle, there was no beach cleanup happening, all the workers had the day off the weather was so bad. skimming operations were zero yesterday, the day before, 218 barrels were skimmed but tonight, dealing with the heat in pensacola, florida, while beach korean-up crews are working at night, using flashlights and lighting rigs on the trucks, scooping up the oily tar balls there, and of course, just yesterday outside of new orleans, lake pontchartrain, 100 pounds of additional tore balls were found and ....
the company overseeing the oil spill response says it will be three more weeks before they can hook up another ship to collect the oil. retired coast guard admiral says the helix producer vessel, they call it is partially hooked up now but he says crews need calmer weather and calmer seas before they can finish the job. we re told the helix producer can collect more than a million gallons a day. that would more than double the amount that crews are now able to capture. at least what we re led to believe. but it s not clear how much more oil would still be leaking from that blown out well at the bottom of the gulf. phil keating on the scene in grand isle, louisiana, tonight much how much is the weather still affecting the skimming operations there? shep, the skimming operations are not happening. zero barrels of oil skimmed from the surface of the gulf of mexico today. yesterday, similarly bad weather. 218 barrels all day were successfully skimmed and removed from the surface. today ....
Nature is not really helping with the oil stemming the recovery efforts, huh? this is about the eighth straight day of very high winds on the beach and that translates into three to five to 6-foot waves out there, where all of the oil is, bouncing around on the surface. it s making it incredibly problematic for skimming operations. yesterday they were ruled out, there was no surface burning of oil, and there was no new contain tent boom being laid down. the weather conditions are identical today, so i assume that s exactly what s happening out there today. however, the drilling of the relief well is not being impacted as adversely as all of these surface operations. right now, the admiral, thad allen, who says we are a week ahead of schedule on that first relief well, which means if everything goes successfully, and right now that first relief well is 17,700 feet below the surface, just within 400 feet of intercepting the macanda well that is leaking o clock, the plan is to put ....
Supermarket and see people doing that. leaking oil has now arrived on the shores of texas after a tough week for cleanup. rough seas kept skimmers docked off the coast of florida, alabama and mississippi and though they did manage to work through the weekend in louisiana. that giant super skimmer needs more testing, but 12-foot waves in the gulf prevented it from working. nbc news correspondent tom is live in venice, louisiana. tom, on top of the weather problems what about the new reports that bp is not collecting as much oil as they promised? from the get go bp officials and every time we talk with the coast guard, they always said these figures are an exact but there s such a large disparity and initially bp claimed right after the explosion that caused this oil spill that it would be able to recover 194,000 barrels a day with the skimming operations. yesterday the reports are that the figures of the barrels that ....