they don t need to spend $50 million if they step up, do the honorable thing, make it right like they said they would, they would never have to spend a dime. we would be their best pr we could ever get. we would be singing their praises to high heaven. that s not what s happening. mr. mayor, i appreciate you coming on, talking to us. i m sorry it s under these circumstances. please extend our condolences to the kruse family. i will. thank you for talking with me. a top bp executive has everyone asking tonight which doug suttles do you believe, the one who says he has never downplayed the impact of the spill or the one who downplays the impact of the spill and we have video to show you? we re keeping them honest. later, the oil after it enters new word of underwater plumes of oil and new denials from bp. ed markey has questions about that and about all the
again, here we are on day 67 of this gulf oil disaster and the family of a 55-year-old alabama man says the charter boat captain killed himself this week due to pressures caused by the gulf oil spill. authorities say allen kruse was found wednesday in his boat s cabin with a gunshot wound to his head. president obama, he s arrived in canada to talk about global finances. the g- and g-20 summits are the world s wealthiest nations. also, michael jackson fans around the world marking this first anniversary of the pop star s death. police in los angeles have increased security at the jackson family home in encino and at forest lawn memorial park where he is entoo manied.
being put out there for show? yes. that s what he told his wife. that s what she told me just a while ago. he told me it was madness. reporter: his friends toll meal he felt overwhelming by the enormity of the disaster and that they re all feeling the stress. this has been a long-term situation. this started in 12504 way direct hit from hurricane ivan and then katrina, then skyrocketing fuel prices, fishing regulations and now an oil spill. this is six years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. reporter: stress that his friends believe finally became too much for kruse and they re worried about others. are you worried that some of your other friends are thinking about something extreme? yes. we worry about it every day. reporter: what do you do about it. we re trying to get the word out. reporter: as a gesture to the community grieving for him, his
then sky rocketing fuel prices, fishing regulations and an oil spill. this has been six years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. reporter: stress that his friends believed finally became too much for kruse and now they re worried about others. reporter: are you afraid that maybe one of your other friends out there might be thinking about something extreme? sure. we worry about that. we worry about that every day. reporter: what are you going to do about it? that s why we re trying to get the word out. reporter: as a gesture to the community grieving for him, kruse s family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought here to his port. here it is right now, the rookie. his friends say there s really 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, alabam
waters that once made him a living and in so many ways gave him a life. his friends say the oil spill and all that s happened since weighed heavily on. we don t know what happened that made him end his life. the concern now is that he will not be the last. the strain is growing. church groups are bringing in extra clergy along the coast. 1500 people have received counseling, according to catholic charities. experts are seeing more drinking, more domestic violence, more despair. here is david mattingly. reporter: people who knew him say allen kruse lived to fish. those closest to him say that life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. he thought it was dead? yes. reporter: he said that to you? yeah. reporter: and there was no hope fishing was going to come back? not in his lifetime. reporter: kruse was a leader, drumming up business in good time. fishing will be good all summer. reporter: voice iing frustrations of the community