ultimately this is bp's failure, bp's responsibility. and bp needs to be spending all the money to make the community and environment whole again. but this is going to be a decades long process. so to say the obama administration's fault because his mms had the final signature, you know, ignores the fact that the drilling plan was created and first proposed under the bush administration mms and really the changes to mms, there are cultural changes that need to be made and we think that this is, if anything comes out of this, one thing that we'll hope is administrative kind of perspective is that mms gets completely reconfigured so the internal conflicts of interest are minimized and we can have an aggressive watch dog out there in the gulf of mexico and anywhere that drilling is happening. host: ten days ago your organization, the gulf restoration network, is one of a number of organizations writing a letter to the administration calling for more direct oversite in response to the disaster in the gulf of mexico. have you seen any progres

that bp pressed for speed. halliburton's cement plugs failed and transocean damaged the blowout preventer. through all the red flags they've pressed ahead. it was, after all, the deep water horizon, the world record holder, celebrated as among the safest in the fleet. >> men lost their lives. i don't know how else to say it. all the things that they told us could never happen, happened. oh my goodness! it's doing it. i feel like i'm cheating on my crv. >> look at you talkin' me into a ford. >> yeah, i know. you should really try it! >> swap your ride for an escape and grab 0% financing and $1000 bucks while you're at it. >> you keep talkin'. i'll wait in the car. >> go to your local ford dealer and swap your ride today. day after day, allergy season drags on. oh, how many days are you going to suffer? nasonex is the only prescription that's proven to help prevent most seasonal nasal allergy symptoms, including congestion, so you can have more symptom-free days. [ female announcer ] side effects were generally m

. >> reporter: bp has powerful influence all over this operation. >> bp still has control over where that information goes, what information is gathered. that sort of thing. it needs to be completely independent. >> reporter: the world's fourth largest company shelled out $20 million on washington lobbying in 2009, and has some big political guns. former white house majority leader tom daschle and former epa director christine whitman. less than a year ago, a former bp exec was appointed to head a division of the minerals management service, meant to police oil drilling. >> the oil and gas industry has had an extraordinary power over particularly the department of interior. but the government in general, and you've seen it across agencies and in the congress and now we're seeing the impact of that. >> reporter: bp controls the cleanup and taken the lead in deploying skimmers, methods to cap the well, and until today had sole discretion of dumping dispersants on the oil. why did they choose that chemical? >> we're following through unified command of what dispersants are believed to b

bp will bear the brunt of it. not to be a broken record i think it will damage them big time. >> this is a political year. this is a political year so you have drudge right now breaking the lead story saying obama administration gave this rig the safety award last year. expect a lot of blame to go around and grandstanding in these hearings. >> it will be hard to pin this on either party. the rate was approved under the bush administration. i have not heard president obama blame george bush. i don't know where you got that from. he has been tough on federal agencies under bush under him. >> they were not doing their b job>> and the finger pointing continues. i would like to ask our panel to stand by one more time. when we return the controversy brewing over president obama to pay for the next supreme court justice. elena kag began's remarks on the military keep her from joining the high court? e your old mayo with the full flavor of kraft mayo with olive oil. ♪ made with half the fat and calories of hellmann's re

jeffrey kofman with hard questions for the man at the top of bp. jake tapper at the white house and my town hall last night. we begin with ryan. >> reporter: we spent the day a little bit west of here, i have to tell you, the oil is furiously coming ashore there. and they are doing the best they can, the clean crews. this is a very frustrating fight right now. in port buchon, they're knee deep in the oil. teams of cruise have descended on the beach here. sopping up and bagging up countless ball lons of crude. there's so much oil here the layers of boom have to be replaced all the time. coast guard lieutenant michelle curry is on the beach. >> they're having to remove that. they'll put that back down. >> reporter: no one has to look far to see what is at stake. while beaches can be cleaned up, marshes can't. they make up most of louisiana's coastline. the governor warns that the entire shore could look like this. >> we need more boom, more barges still in short supply. let's be clear. every day this oil sits and waits for clunup is one more day that

do what bp wants to do. the federal government has mounted the largest response in to all of the history of this country to fight this oil. >> it is clear the defense of the shoreline at this point has not been successful. i feel devastated by that, absolutely gutted. >> reporter: none of this impressed this oyster man. >> the sandbags are not enough. they are a temporary fix like putting a band-aid on a big cut. >> reporter: the big cut is the still spewing oil well at the bottom of the gulf. last friday mitch's oyster boat was a loud, messy, floating factory. today it is empty and still. we headed out to the leak site and found a toxic soup in the gulf of mexico. enormous rivers of oil and dispersant on the surface and underneath 16 miles from the coast. 26 miles out the gulf is a red sea, it is bleeding oil. we got within three miles of where the oil rig went down that started this disaster. this armada of ships and rigs is what bp hopes will stop the leak this is the epicenter of the spill zone. from her

we have heard over and over that the value of bp's stock has fallen, but bp is selling for about the same price it was a year ago today, so bp, transocean, halliburton and any other company will be back because they have the infrastructure and economic might to make more money, but gordon will never be back, never. and neither will any of the 10 gooden who died with him. now, the future of those families is in your hands. i urge you to do the right thing. thank you very much for listening. chris and i will be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> douglas harold brown was chief mechanic and acting second engineer on transocean's deepwater horizon and is a survivor of the april 20 explosi explosion. he served in the u.s. army for more than 11 years, began work with,b. falcon, an offshore oil drilling company that was bought by transocean a he became a transocean employee and one of the original crew members of the deepwater horizon. >> chairman conyers, ranking member smith and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. my name is douglas h

mckay indicated bp did? >> the only distinction i would draw is that bp data would have been real time. our data has some delay in the replication of our data, so are sequence of events ends at 3:00 in the afternoon on the 20th. >> do you have all that data preserved? >> yes, all that data has been preserved and made available as requested. >> ok. one of the issues that is going to be focused on probably when we have secretary salazar next week is whether there were efforts made to improve or to strengthen the safety requirements for this type of drilling operation that mms made that were not successful, that the industry resisted. are there any aspects of this that you are aware of, mr. mckay, where t mms was urging additional safety precautions to be taken that the industry was noin compliance with? >> no, i am not aware of any. some people of reference to a letter that went to comment to the mms about safety regulations where we were providing comment as to the nature of, a prospective nature of regulatio

one is following the bp. can you tell me to the president has actually spoken with at bp and then also any reaction on academic ahmadinejad. >> obviously, they have -- secretary salazar convened a meeting with the ceos of the oil companies last week and we put that list of folks out. secretary salazar was in houston, the bp command center and these individuals will meet with dp later on. i think it's 3:00 today. look, i think the speech that you heard today was predict predictable and that iran failed to speak about the obligation that it won't live up to -- and i think rightly, our delegation and many others left as a series of wild accusations were made during the speech. >> do you think will have any influence on the movement toward actually getting some sanctions against them? >> well, i think the speech today -- i think those that are involved in the npt conference and are living up to the obligations would've wanted to hear the iranians discuss living up to their obligations. i think them not doing that

is bp up to the task? >>> caught on tape. sarah ferguson, the duchess of york, appearing to cash in on her royal family. what she said while an undercover camera rolled. and what she's saying tonight. >>> and, out of order. after 20 years, the final case >>> and, out of order. after 20 years, the final case closed. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening, everyone. the unrelenting flow of oil and bubbling anger over the massive spill reached a kind of critical mass today with both bp and the obama administration facing a new level of outrage. a lot of it coming from the oil-stained shore of louisiana, where that state's governor today blasted washington and demanded a greater sense of urgency and action. but even the federal government seems divided tonight on who best can handle the disaster. with one hand defending bp, the other condemning its response. but none of the finger-pointing has stopped the oil or the slow-motion destruction of the gulf coast. we have re

. >> do you know whether bp made that decision? >> because bp are the operators of the well and the permit lder and have the relationship with the mms, it there was a discussion about whether or not there was -- whether or not it was appropriate to proceed, that conversation would have taken place between bp and mms. >> i concur with that view. >> that is his view, but what do you know? >> we haveo knowledge of that discussion, however if the discussion took place, bp would be the leaseholder. >> what knowledge do you have about the decision being made to remove the mud and replace it with seawater? >> the only inrmation we have is what i told you. >> but it is unusual, is it not? >> >> it was not utilized previously. 'm afraid i cannot tell you -- >> but it was not a normal procedure, yes or no? >> it has been used on multiple occasions in the gulf. >> hasn't been used on less than 10% of procedures? you are under oath. i am askingou a simple question. what percentage of times today removed and the mud before they finished the plu

is going to make your business whole. >> the government making it clear bp and bp alone is responsible for the oil disaster. that is an important promise but louisiana lawmakers made it known they are not standing on the sidelines any longon the development. >> 5,000 feet underwater the oil continues to flow, but above found the obama administration's response may be in deep water itself. >> if we find they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing we will push them out of the way. >> reporter: ken salazar's tough talk highlights a problem for the government. they are not happy with bp's performance but right now they are the only people in town. >> we have had support across the industry. so i don't know what they would do different. >> reporter: bp is planning a different fix called a top kill where mud will be used to plug the well head but louisiana's governor called on bp and the government to start to work together. >> b spark the responsible party but we need the federal government to make sure they are held accountable and are indeed responsible. >> reporter: environment

then the president and chairman of bp america. senator joe lieberman chairs the committee. >> good afternoon. the hearing will come to order. we convened today to assess the private and public sector response. to what is rapidly and ominously becoming the worst oil spill in america's history. we do so as part of the responsibility to oversee the operations of government and in this case, specifically, the incident management operations of the department of homeland security and the united states coast guard. we're not here to determine how the explosion of the oil will happened -- elwell happen. those are critically important questions. other congressional committees and private groups have began to explore those questions. . . our focus today is o preparedness and response. the preparedness and response of our government and the private businesses in of all to this accident -- and private businesses iolved with this accident and the oil spill after it occurred. with the companies and government agencies prepared for a deep blow u

why doesn't bp get find? if something is wrong with the coal for the coal mines around here, they get fined for their coal not been up to code. what is wrong with the peanut getting fined? host: "the new york times" talks about transitiocean. behind the scenes firm gets caught in the spotlight. congressional investigators have questions about their maintenance and modification of the rig's blow up a venture. one of those many congressional hearings, seven at last count, is happening today. chairman jeff bingaman -- is beginning at 10:00 p.m. eastern. we will have cameras there. among those will be the associated attorney general for the justice debarment, the national pollution fund center, the coast guard, the deputy secretary of the department of interior, also a panel with economics and risk assessment, a congressional research attorney, and a policy specialist. they are looking at it from several different angles. south carolina, steve on the independent line. caller: good morning. yes, about this oil spi

bp should appropriately pay the bill. to prevent this type of incident from ever happening again, i have also worked with other gulf coast senators toointroduce legislation that introduced -- address is two specific areas. the iability cap for the responsibile party and greater prepared this to address future incidents more rapidly. our assistance pact would establish a new liability cap equal to the last four quarters of the rrsponsible parties profits or double the current limit, whichever is greater. the bill would establish much greater reserve requirements for the amount of boom and would effectively capped the llaks like the one currently gushing in the gulf. that would make a killing safer, smarrer, and more reeiable, but not expensive. some in washington have tried to seize upon this real human tragedy in the gulf to advocate for a radical new energy agenda. that only cheapens the loss of those who have lost loved ones. uusolved problem to spring forward with an emotionally charged political agenda. it is wrong..

the longer it goes on, the bigger the hit to bp's image. nick kalm is an expert on corporate reputation, and he's here to talk about it. welcome to the show. good to have you again. and the cleanup efforts have certainly been very difficult. even federal officials say bp needs to put more resources into the situation. and that alone you would think, would be a hit to bp's image. absolutely, they talked very openly about having 2500 employees on the ground there, on their web site. but clearly more needs to be done. there are a huge company, so they need to put in more resources. it would certainly be good if they did that without having to be asked by the federal government to do it. but in this case, at least they're following what they're being asked to do. and we also want to point out, that there are other companies involved in this. trans ocean that owned the drilling rig that caught on fire and malfunctioned. halliburton as well. but yet, this is still shaping up to be a situation where bp is taking most of the blame. absolutely, and

joel brown reports many residents are upset that bp's latest try to plug that leak won't happen until at least tuesday. >> reporter: concerns along the gulf coast rise with every clump of crude oil washing ashore. the beaches on grand aisle remain closed and residents here posted some not so subtle messages for bp. >> it's devastating. we come here every weekend. my kids and i like to crab ton beach, and it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: frustration compounded with more discouraging news from bp that the mile-long tube siphoning oil is suck far less oil than before. cleanup crews here on elmers island are counting on booms to keep the oil from going back out to sea but until bp finally plugs that well there's nothing to keep the oil from invading this wildlife preserve. the next big effort to stop the spew could come as early as tuesday. engineers plan to shoot mud, then cement into the hole that lies a mile below the surface. the technique has been tried only on land, adding to the mounting frustration toward bp and the obama administration. >> in terms of not trusting bp, i mean, the

is bp doing this? >> again, with assistance from the government agencies involved with the monitoring and the sampling programs under unified command or within unified command, i believe that is going on. >> could you please inform the committee in writing of the nature and extent of all sub surface plumes, and do you know whether the dispersant or disperse and thants you are usi harmful to human health, are they known carcinogens? >> i don't know offhand. we will get that back to the committee. >> are you prepared to assume liability of the human effects, not just the oil spilled, but also the disperse and thes ants >> we've said we will honor all legitimate claims related to the impact of the spill. >> do you know, mr. musenewman,t the blowout preventer cost? >> i don't know what we paid for it back in '99 or 2000 when we bought it. >> what's a typical ballpark figure for the collection of redundant blowout preventer devices? >> i believe if we went out and bought one today i think it would cost in t

it starts with bp's accountability. it's not un-american to hold somebody accountable for a massive environmentaldy saiser. bp has to be responsible to stopping the spill and paying for the consequences and cleaning up. the american government has been working with bp. it's their job. they have to be held accountable. saying that, for example, we needn't be so worried about things like mining regulations. this is an important role that the government has to protect the safety of the environment and the health of citizens. rand paul's statements with troubling. it's important for the republican leads to say if they back this kind of attitude or not. i was a civil rights lawyer for 17 years. rand paul wrote a letter that said a free society should tolerate discrimination, even if it means people are excluded on the color of their skin. >> that's pretty much a direct quote. >> it's a view held by l libertarians. we have a loft members go to the senate with different philosophies. when they get to the body, how they work to

mckay, is there anyone who works for bp america or bp parent or any bp subsidiary who previously worked for the u.s. department of interior and or mms? >> i believe so, yes. >> who is that? >> i believe jim grant worked for the mms. >> and what role? >> in what role for the mms? i'not sure. >> could you awer that question in detail for the committee? moving forward, go through your records and see? >> yes. >> okay. and what about vice versa. anyone currently employed by the department of interior or mms who previously worked for bp america or bp parent or a subsidiary? >> i know of one person. i'm not sure they're still employed but they were, yes. >> who is that? >> sill via baka. >> in what role? >> i don't know. i don't know what her role is exactly. i'll get that to you. >> mr. newman and mr. probert, same question except halliburton or transocean. >> i'm not aware of anybody but we can check our records and confirm. >> neither am i but we'll check our records and confirm. >> thank you very much. i wanted to ask some questions of how the blowout preventer was tested. mr. newman, in

to the bp oil spill. they should worry about the democratic president's response to the bp oil spill. it's one thing to get on the ground, get in front of this thing. it's another thing to sit back and hold bp accountable. without helping them. that's what's happening here. the federal government should have stepped into this thing immediately to help make sure that the appropriate steps were being taken by bp, all federal agencies in support of the state government. to try to get this thing cleaned up. here we are, almost a month and a half later and it's still spewing oil. >> how about that? a lot of people are criticizing the administration for not holding bp accountable. >> the administration is doing two things. it starts with bp's accountability. it's not un-american to hold somebody accountable for a massive environmental disaster. this is not just a mistake that we can wash away. bp has to be responsible to stop the spill and pay for the consequences and cleaning up. the american government has be

. >> a backlash against bp oil. allegations of a possible cover-up are mounting. >> this goes according to a governor's plan that oysters will flourish in the chesapeake again. "11 news saturday morning" starts now. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> welcome to "11 news saturday morning." i'm lisa robinson. >> and i'm kerry cavanaugh. it is always good when you can leave for work with no coat on. >> that's right. and we have had some chilly mornings in may. we have had a couple great days here. this weekend we backslide a little bit. we need the rain. we're a little short of rain, so that's not the worst idea. there is rain out there that i want to show you on our h.d. doppler radar. it is not going to be a wash-out as the past couple weeks have been throughout the area. nevertheless, the rain threat is there. you do see radar echos overhead over the baltimore washington area. that is all up in the clouds. that is not making it to the ground. the real rain is out the west. that looks spotty

do you trust bp and what they're telling you? >> bob, bp is the responsible party. they own the well. they're responsible for capping it. that effort is overseen by and directed by admiraled that allen and our commanders on the ground in louisiana. as the admiral has said if he has a problem or concern with what's bp is doing he calls their ceo on his cell phone. so we are watching everything that they're doing. there's no doubt that we've had some problems with bp's lack of transparency. we asked that a video feed be made public. that tooblg... took ten days. we have sent letters recently in order to get them to post their water quality data and to ensure that the dispersants that they're spraying on top of the water and using it at sub sea level are the least toxic available. we are working, as i said, every minute of every day to ensure that the response is everything that it should be. >> schieffer: do you foresee that there might be a criminal investigation opened into what happened here because the justice department shertly would have that option. >> i think

i also have made it clear that we are not standing on the sidelines and letting bp do a bp wants to do. the federal government has mounted the largest response to fight this oil in all of the history of this country. we have deployed more than a thousand vessels. 20,000 plus people are out there working day and night. we have burned oil off the surface. we have skimmed it, dispersed it on the surface and undersea. we have deployed miles and miles of boom and are working to clean up the shorelines. we are working to get independent numbers from the best scientists in the world that will tell the united states how much of this bp oil has already spilled out into the gulf of mexico. the administration has done everything we can possible to make sure that we push bp to stop the spill and to contain the impact. we have always been very clear that there are areas where bp and the private sector are the ones who must continue to lead the efforts with government oversight such as the deployment of private sector technology 5,000 feet below the surface to kill the well. bp with the help of scie

bp said it could happen tomorrow or later. the oil giant also reported its findings on what went wrong back in april. when the oil rig deep water horizon exploded and sank and the spill began. the report pointed at the failure of the blow-out preventer, owned by transocean. and the cementing of the well head, performed by halliburton. bp's chief executive tony hayward stopped short of directly assigning blame. instead he said, quote, a number of companies are involved including bp, and it is simply too early and not up to us to say who is at fault. separately the u.s. interior department reported numerous rule violations by staffers for the federal minerals management service in louisiana. interior secretary ken salazar called it deeply disturbing and, quote, further evidence of the cozy relationship between some in m.m.s., and the industry it regulates. ♪ they shook hands on the side ♪ ♪ tell the truth >> woodruff: on a somber note, family and friends held a memorial service in jackson, mississippi, for 11 oil workers k

make sure they are held responsible. >> bp released in video. this hangs on what bp does, but some said the president has been too trusting. >> they are not tough enough. to comewaiting for bp up with a new plan. it is not clear what could happen. the admiral in charge has been in the white house cancer in questions and did not seem to know what that meant >> replace them with what? >> it is not just a question -- the u.s. government simply doesn't have the equipment he has to be in charge of clearing up this mess. it does not want to take the blame if the oil company fails again. >> british members will be expected to walk or take public transportation to many of their meetings. recruitment will be frozen. great britain's finance minister has unveiled $8 billion of public spending cuts. that is the start of a painful program to cut their deficit. >> the department of transport, $683 billion. the home office, $367 million. >> real cuts to real budgets. local authority spending will be squeezed say, adding 6.2 billion pounds. the men said they wa

but louisiana isn't waiting for bp or the federal government to help. the state's governor told reporters sunday he's taking matters in to his own hands. >> it is clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here. >> reporter: governor bobby jindal says the state has begun building sand barriers to protect the coastline and its fragile wildlife. as for local residents, they don't care who or how. they just want the water clean. but many experts believe that won't even be possible until crews dig a relief well at the bottom of the gulf and that could take months. and the white house says the justice department has been gathering information about the oil spill, but won't say if a criminal investigation has been launched. michelle, back to you. >> tara mergener in washington. thanks. >>> during an interview yesterday, former republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin suggested the obama administration is too close to big oil. >> if there's any connection with the contributions made to president obama and his administration and the

bp participate sometimes in bp participate sometimes in these, but we do both embraced the learnings and try to make sure those learning's get passed from grieg to rig -- from rig to rig. those were a couple of the learnings. we went to a rise in -- we went to horizon to see if those same learning's would apply, whether access to the area was the same. in fact, on the horizon, it was a little bit deeper skate. a little bit more difficult to get into. we discussed what transocean was going to do relative to the event and the incident. >> you mentioned that this was part of your safety audit. all was participating in the safety audit besides yourself? >> well, pretty much the group that was walking around was that was walking around was myself and pat o'brien , buddy, jimmy, and i cannot recall with 100% certainty the other folks who were with us. i think in total we were seven or eight. >> now, it is our understanding that you all have the safety measure program in place. is that correct? >> traocean has a safety management system that is followed on the rig. >> you mentioned that the

we have heard over and over that the value of bp's stock has fallen, but bp is selling for about the same price it was a year ago toy, so bp, transocean, halliburton and any other company will be back becae they have the infrastructure and economic might to make more money, but gordon will never be back, never. and neither will any of the 10 good men who died with him. now, the future of those families is in your hands. i urge you to do the right thing. thank you very much for listening. chris and i will be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> douglas harold brown was chief mechanic and acting second engineer on transocean's deepwater horizon d is a survivor of the april 20th explosi explosion. he served in the u.s. army for more than 11 years, began work with,b. falcon, an offshore oil drilling company that was bought by transoceannd he became a transocean employee and one of the original crew members of the deepwater horizon. >> chairman conyers, ranking member smith and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. my name is douglas har

bp is involved in the execution. and to the extent there is a problem there, then we can bring our authorities to bear, and we do. >> let me add one aspect to what the admiral said about what we are also working through, and that is changing the liability law in congress and lifting that cap, and setting it to a place that would insure that the economic damages currently capped at $75 million, per the oil pollution act of 1990, recognize the breadth of this disaster. >> is there a moratorium in place right now on new drilling? >> carol is better on that. >> the president has said no new holes. >> what are these permits? >> modifications to existing permits. it is quite routine where you are currently drilling and you need to make a modification, if you have encountered something that cheap -- that you did not anticipate, and so you go back and, and it is called a permit. i think it is better to think about it as a modification to an existing permit. there are 23 permits out there for new drilling activities that are

secretary salazar was in houston at the bp command center and these individuals will meet with bp later on. i think it's at 3:00 today. look, i think the speech that you heard today was predictable in that iran failed to speak about the obligations that it won't live up to, and i think rightly our delegation and many others left as a series of wild accusations were made during the speech. >> reporter: do you think it will have any influence on the movement towards getting some sanctions against them, more sanctions? >> i think the speech today, i think the -- those that have -- those that are involved in the npt conference and are living up to the obligations would have wanted to hear the iranians discuss living up to their obligations. i think them not doing that again shows how further isolated they are from the world community, and we continue to make progress on sanctions at a multilateral level even as we look at ways that we can do so within our own government. continue to meet with the u.n. security council and continue to make progress moving forward on a security council resolu

bp has been using that as well. now once bp put out that video that shows that tube just billowing that cloud of oil out into the ocean, experts around the country took a look at that and started making their own calculations based on what they were looking at. and they were saying no, it's a lot more than that. it could be double, triple, quadruple, one estimate up to 70,000 barrels a day. the fact is nobody really knows for sure right now. bp responding to that saying well, it's hard to quantify it just by look at it coming out of that tube. and one of the reasons why you really don't have a perspective on how big that tube is just look agent it, they tell us it's 22 inches wide. and we've got something to show you here. this wash basin is also just exactly that same size, the same size as that pipe down at the bottom that is spewing the oil right now. so judge for yourself. >> a lot of oil is coming out. >> in a big cloud, a big cloud of oil coming out of that every single second. >> david mattingly, thanks for a

you are in bp north america. i was on c-span this morning, and they talked about, what about china drilling off of cuba? i believe that they had been exploring down there. are you aware of this? >> i think that they have been talking. >> let's say that they do this. 45 miles is halfway between cuba and the united states. they have not requested any permits off of the shores of cuba. we have to be ready, and we have to have these in reserve. that is not the responsibility of the coast guard. and we have to be ready in case something happens. and if you look at the history of these things, in 1979 we had the worst situation in the history of the gulf. this was not caused by people asleep at the job, on this particular incident. but this continued for nine months. and i think that we have to be prepared, not only for another incident in the deep water, and we have a list -- this is a list of the obama approvals. you see that you are doing this in deeper water, and we have to make certain that if this is done, and we

interior secretary ken salazar questioned bp's determination. siting missed deadlines and a controversy nowhere close to being solved. >> i'm frustrated that bp has been unable to stop this leak. >> reporter: salazar said he would push bp out of the way if a solution could not be found. >>> the justice department officials have been in that gulf region gathering information about the spill but they are not saying whether there is a criminal investigation. >>> back here in maryland, it's been an overcast sunday afternoon with a lot of scattered showers across the area. taking a live look outside. is there even a peak of sunshine out there? will it stick around? bernadette woods is looking at the forecast for us. >> we want to show you first warning doppler radar. with when we say scattered showers this is what we mean. this they are just scattered all throughout the state. notice the storms from east to west. this is the direction it rotates. we're going to be taking you to some of the areas that are looking at the storms. columbia a few showers

and bp ceo says that will not work. they are committedded to stopping the leak. >> we are all here for the long haul. we're going to clean every drop of oil. and off the shore. we will remediate any environmental damage. and we'll search the gulf coast right here back to normality as fast as we can. >> reporter: bp's next attempt to stopping the leak will come on wednesday as officials will try to cap the leak by pumping the well with thick fuel and a procedure called top kill. what, i'm samantha haze, 9news now. >>> and late to, we learn all that hairing be collected at salons across the country will not be used to try to stop up the spill. bp and the coast guard say they are not using hair booms and they are not planning to do so. the nonprofit group that organized the hair for oil efforts released a statement via e-mail saying there is a bit of a misunderstanding with bp. >>> and this is day 35 of the oil spill. can you believe it? do you have any confidence that it will be stopped any time soon? do you think that th

do you trust bp and what they're telling you? >> well, bob, bp is the responsible party, they own the well, they're responsible for capping it. >> do you think this could be your administration's katrina? >> i think the difference in this case is, we were there immediately. we have been there ever since. sam allen is directing our response as the national incident commander. there are people on the ground. there are thousands of people working even as we speak, bob, to figure out a way to plug this hole and to deal with the spread of this oil. >> the administration obviously distancing itself from any comparison to katrina. bobby jindal, governor of louisiana, saying 65 miles of coast land covered and coated in oil. >> that's 6 million gallons of crude. with new bengay pain relief plus massage you can do this... get the ball. get the ball, girl. hmmm, you can't do that. but you can do this. new bengay pain relief + massage. love the nubs! here wouldw bengay pain relief + massage. you go next if you had a hoveround power chair? th

bp is responsible for this leak. bp will be paying the bill. as president of the u.s., i will spare no effort to respond to the crisis for as long as it continues. >> reporter: the president also met briefly with a group of fishermen, telling them he didn't want to sugar-coat anything and called the spill a big mess, it is, he said, potentially unprecedented environmental disaster. and, president promised to help them get federal aid to deal with the economic impact, to the gulf region, and, meanwhile, the oil continues to gush into the water, it is believed to be about 9 miles off the coast of louisiana now and could hit land on monday. the president's trip to the gulf is part of the administration's move to step up its response to the disaster and also, cut off criticism, he flies back to washington, tonight. >> patti ann: julie kirtz live, in washington thanks and check the developments in the crisis at foxnews.com. i'm patti ann browne, and now, we go to "fox news sunday," with chris wallace, you are watching the most trusted name in news,

>> yes, this is doug suttles from bp. from -- since this event began, all we have monitored -- once we discovered the oil was flowing into the seabed, we could monitor with remote-operated vehicle cameras. which done that. the amount of flow looks essentially the same. we cannot meter that flow. as events unfolded, we can monitor what is on the surface of the sea. as the event started, ourselves with the rest of the unified command, our best estimate of the time was 1,000 barrels a day. as we gather more data come from satellite images and from over flight data, we revised that number to 5,000 barrels a day. we did not indicate a change in the mouth of flow. it indicated a change in the estimate of the flow rate. this is highly and precise. highly and precise. as the admiral said indicated, there is a change in the flow rate. we are prepared for that in the eventuality the rate is higher. >> next question please. >> [unintelligible] >> hi. there has been talk this morning about how this could affect oil production. is tha

bp is the responsible party here but again, the federal government needs to work with bp and the state and local officials to clean this up and deal with it. the bp in charge of capping that spill, stopping it from coming out. >> julie kirtz live in washington following the president's trip for us. thank you very much, julie. >> jamie, rough weather conditions are now complicating efforts to try and clean up that oil slick as it makes its way toward the gulf coast shore. crews frantically working from land, the air and the sea all trying to contain the slick as it continues to grow and continue leak. but at 5,000 feet down at the bottom of the gulf a 7-inch wide hole with as you heard some fearing it could take up to three months before the uncontrolled george w gusher i. the damage could be devastating. flacketting with the latest from -- phil keating with the latest from louisiana. >> this is the third consecutive day of the high winds down here and that is the exact reason why president obama is currently up north of me right now driving his way down south from the new orleans airpo

but convenience store owners that sell bp gas so far have not reported a drop in business. unlike the consumer backlash at the pump following the exxon valdez spill 21 years ago. that disaster triggered consumers to return thousands of exxon's credit cards to the company. like now, independent operators argue they shouldn't be punished for the oil company's actions. >> really these stores may sell a brand of liquid but that is the extent of the relationship. >> reporter: a bp spokesman says the company no longer owns or operates the vast majority of bp-branded sites in the u.s., even though it supplies fuel to regional distributors and independent franchise owners. for the most part, it's business as usual with consumers who agree the spill is awful but continue to buy gas based on price and convenience. >> right now, i'm not sure how the spill began. and i'm not sure whose fault it was. so i can't hold it against the company. they're trying to fix it. >> reporter: if boycott proponents succeed, stations will stop selling bp oil or consumers will stop buying from their stor