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Doing with the vessel of opportunity program. >> yes, bp and the government have set up this program so they can use their boats. theres all kinds of ships out there and people who want to help can use these boats for various things, for skimming, for transporting wildlife. people are urn turning out to these huge gatherings to learn how they can take part. more than 2,000 vessels of opportunity have been registered. the real task right now is to organize them. they need to get organized about i...

On, bp has taken some space over there and training people. >> yes, sir. its right down the street. its a small town, so we coordinate with the locals to use whatever resources we can. >> we were here the other night when president obama was making a speech from the oval office. we sat and watched it with a number of the locals from here. theyre hard-working, passionate group of people. >> oh, definitely. i have addressed several of those classes that has training, and the questions they ask ind...

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He, based here in london, looking overall at the entire situation. so in that sense, what he was saying is how not he was involved in the hundreds of hundreds of drills being drilled around the world, but trying to be in charge of the operation for the clean-up. >> jim, tell me this. you and i are both -- our pedigree is in business news and we interview ceos around the world. is there something we are missing about tony hayward who comes across as lackluster and not particularly strong? he was ...

Americans, and particularly to those people living in the gulf of mexico where i am, but it seemed to play differently in the uk where it appeared that he was savaged by u.s. congressmen. >> yes, one paper called him the most hated man in america, "the guardian." and "the financial times" said he was mauled in congress. theyre not saying they dont understand whats going on in the u.s. or down playing what happened in the gulf at all. there are some business leaders who said that maybe all the bl...

The spill. lets do to jim bolden in london with more on the new development from bp. jim? >> thats right, ali. weve just heard on the television here, sven bird speaking to fox news, and he said he would hand over day-to-day operations in the gulf to bob dudley, hes an american who works for bp, in charge of bps operations in russia that were extremely difficult. its called bptnk and has now gone on to bp in the u.s. and this will put an american voice and american face on to this crisis. also, ...

Ground, a very prominent man here in the uk. i used to interview him, other people used to interview him and then a scandal happened in his personal life and problems in the u.s. with safety. so they brought in an engineer, a man who grew through bp, who has this incredible background, phd. hes -- they decided theyve got to go to a guy who understands the oil side of things, and thats where he has been focusing. and i can tell you, ali, the entire time he has been the ceo, i have never done an i...

Petroleum, he said there were too many people in the company trying to save the world and our priority is not saving the world, its creating value for our shareholders and he may be entirely right at that. but in light of the things that have happened right now, tony hate ward has not had the grandest 24 hours in his career. thanks for bringing us up to speed. youll let us know as things develop. but what we do know now is that bps chairman said to sky news that ceo tony hayward is going to be h...