white sand florida businesses, driving down business 30%. they are cleaning up tar balls a few feet away from where you re sitting. yes, and it s sad. reporter: at the same time tony hayward goes home for a weekend on his yacht. what would you like to say to tony hayward? we love it here and we want it to stay clean and he needs to get down here and make sure it stays this way so we can bring our families here. reporter: but with no end in sight, day 65, the stress becomes too much for one fisherman to bear. allen kruse s suicide shows how deep the depression can go. he thought it was dead? yep. reporter: he said that to you? yep. reporter: and no hope the fishing would come back? not in his lifetime. reporter: day 87, a newly designed cap holds and the oil
cnn.com/amfix. the news continues on cnn with krya phillips. good morning, kyra. good morning. thanks so much. here is when we are working on for you this morning. horrific crash in pakistan. commercial flight goes down. at least two americans onboard. homeownership. fresh figures make you wonder is that dream dying? if you want to buy or you are trying to sell, you are going to need to hear this. scam artists using pictures of military man, dead or alive, to break your heart. cnn s special investigation unit is on it. what they found out will shock you. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 on the west coast. i m krya phillips. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we begin with that developing story out of pakistan. two american citizens reportedly among the 152 people onboard. doomed passenger jet that slammed into the hills just outside of islamabad. right now no reports of survivors but crews are working to try to recover as many bodies from the twisted metal scatte
that s exactly what happened to almost 2,000 of our military vets. hurricane alex grows stronger and closer. we will tell you where it is headed, when it will hit, what it means to the massive oil cleanup in the gulf. say it isn t so, larry. cnn s king of talk leaves his audience speechless. the prime time icon announces his retirement. we begin with boarding up and counting down. texans getting ready as hurricane alex barrels through the gulf and takes aim at the u.s./mexico border. earlier this morning the storm gained strength and notoriety. the first atlantic hurricane to form in june in 15 years. the government is already rolling its emergency crews into place along texas coast. let s begin at the very southern tip of texas. cnn meteorologist reynolds wolf is on south padre island where a state of disaster has been declared as the hurricane approaches. reynolds? reporter: absolutely. it is funny how history repeats itself. we were here close to this position rou
to do about that? that s why we re trying to get the word out. reporter: as a gesture to the community now grieving for him, kruse s family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought back here to home port in orange beach. here it is, the rookie. no better way that they could think of, to pay tribute to a man who loved what he did for a living and loved the waters where he worked. it s the rookie s final voyage, carrying a cargo of uncertainty and sorrow. david mattingly, cnn, orange beach, alabama. allen kruse was just 55 years old. up next, a family-run business right here in new orleans now in jeopardy. they ve been distributing oysters here since 1876. then came the bp spill and everything has changed. also ahead tonight, lenny kravitz. he has a house here in new orleans, a message and the disaster and the resiliency of this city.
now, no one may ever know why he committed suicide. some friends say they saw a changed man after the spill. david mattingly reports. reporter: people who knew him say allen kruse lived to fish. those closest to him say life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. he thought it was dead? yep. he said that to you? yep. and that there was no hope that the fishing was ever going to come back? not in his lifetime. reporter: among charter boat captains in alabama, kruse was a leader, drumming up business in good times and voicing the frustrations of a community in the bad times. the day that the oil entered the gulf, my phone quit ringing. reporter: just a month after that interview, kruse was found on his boat, dead, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he worked for bp, hauling boom and looking for oil. his brothers say he felt like his role in the cleanup as a bp