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How much oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico? ABC anchor Diane Sawyer asked Admiral Thad Allen of the Coast Guard, who is in charge of the federal government's response. "Do you know how much oil is coming out of the well today?" "We have an estimate, yes." The anchor proceeded to tell the admiral what his daily estimate was--between 12K and 25K barrels. "Could it possibly be 60K barrels per day?" "I do not know if it would be that high." CBS' Mark Strassmann reported that BP is now siphoning off 14.8K barrels each day through its containment cap, what he called "more than half the government's current high-end estimate."
All three networks covered the confirmation that giant undersea plumes of oil particles had been identified some 3,300 feet below sea level. CBS' Strassmann gave credit to the feds, citing NOAA, calling it "thin, dispersed oil;" NBC's Anne Thompson cited findings by the University of South; Sam Champion, Good Morning America's weathercaster, reporting for ABC, credited the University of Georgia: "When microscopic oil and gas particles mix it is a substance that you or I have never seen before because these two things behave differently at these depths and these temperatures and these pressures."
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