** Heads Up: Thad Allen's Daily Briefing, 10am **

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http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1

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1. About to start. NT

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2. NOAA Head: Concentration of oil currently less than .5 parts per million

... (in the Gulf's water.) .... sorry, missed WHERE the sample was taken.

I think the general notion is that level of oil concentration is low.

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3. Media use of the term "plume" is incorrect...

.... a plume has a source and is moving .... the areas the press are talking about is more like a relatively stationary pool ... Allen says "cloud" would be a better description.

I'd wondered about that.

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4. Laughs at the notion of this and Katrina being similar ....

.... does not like the comparison at all. "There were not a lot of forward assets at the start of Katrina .... we were there from the very beginning on this one ... I was there for both of them."

[Jennicut]

7. He did some search and rescue during Katrina and did help out on

the ground after Brownie was fired. He was actually praised by both Dems and Rethugs for his work during Katrina.

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5. 2600 (plus) vessels now skimming the ocean surface. NT

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6. Allen has asked BP to "go back and question their initial estimate of the flow rate..."

.... and also the rate pre and post riser cut.

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8. West-ward winds are either holding the surface oil where it is...

... and possibly moving it father west from the coast.

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9. I hate when they ask him political questions....

.... "why should the American people be comfortable with what BP is telling them?"

silly.

[Kdillard]

10. Thanks a bunch for the play by play. Hopefully things will continue in this direction until

There is no oil at all.

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11. you're welcome .... I missed a bunch in the beginning, watch it online later if you can find it. NT