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The way that its handled. >> i mean, the other alternative could be, a, that they believe in the dispersants or dont believe in the skimmers or, b, that theyre simply incompetent or just not doing a very good job. >> well, anderson, its a grand experiment on an unprecedented scale. and unfortunately, i dont know that were going -- you and i are going to know the results of this experiment until we get 20 years down the road. i think we know what the result would be if we put an armada of vessels...

Oysters more than three weeks ago. how many oysters would you bring in on a normal day? >> prior to the shutdown i was averaging 150 sacks. >> reporter: though the state of louisiana today reopened the waters here to shrimpers and oystermen, mitch isnt going to farm oysters just yet. hes not convinced the oil isnt still here. besides, he doesnt have a crew anymore. theyve all taken jobs with bp. every day he still goes out on the water. >> this is the first area where i spotted, you know, heavy ...

I appreciate you being on with us tonight. our invitation stands as always to bp to come on. more now on the skimmer shortage and the red tape angle. i talked about it just a short while ago with james carville and the president of plackmans parish. theyre still in need of skimmers to -- to pick this oil up. does this make any sense for you? >> its -- how do you say were at war and were still piece mealing this thing one skimmer at a time, two skimmers at a time. maybe well set aside the jones a...

And talked about, you know, what its like for -- >> or even let real reporters out to see it, you know, and to talk to these people freely to see who is controlling the remote controlled vehicles, to narrate during these operations what is going on. thats stunning, the fact that they will not narrate like nasa does during a space launch what is actually happening underwater. >> the reason they dont let you out there is one word. and it not plastic. its lawyers. they do not move unless some lawye...

Dispersants to keep the oil from not coming to the surface for financial motives and not using these skimmers? >> i -- i have been working on this project of trying to get these skimmers into the gulf for over a month now. everybody in europe where standard practice is to raise the oil and to collect it is scratching their heads and, quite honestly, laughing at whats happening in the gulf. this is -- and ive educated myself over the last month as ive gone through this process of trying to get th...

Particularly the hotels have been prospering because so many people have come here from bp and other oil emergency response teams. wait. so bp is helping tourism? >> hes not over here to publish the negative stuff. he wants the positive stuff. and theres not a whole lot thats positive. if he would come in today and do the interview, oh, i dont know that hed want to publish it. >> reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp about these so-called reporters. a spokesman told us, quote, these article...

Salazar says he will issue a new moratorium and republican governor jindal and democratic landrieu are opposing the moratoriuming saying it hurts the economy. bps ceo finally has his life back. tony hayward handed over the reins to an american guy, bob dudley. a yank. john roberts talked -- okay. stay with me. john, we will talk about that in just a second. but we just got the live picture of general stanley mcchrystal. the lead man in afghanistan arriving at the white house right now, getting...

Deeper into how this will affect morale among u.s. troops in afghanistan. lets head to the oil disaster in the gulf. day 65 and bps operation to stop the gusher is under new management. tony hayward out. bps bob dudley in. meantime the u.s. government wages its own battle to keep the six-month moratorium on de deepwater drilling in place. the white house is vowing to appeal a federal judges ruling overturning the moratorium. interior secretary salazar says the moratorium is needed and within t...

Now, to the oil disaster in the gulf. its day 65, and bps operation to stop the gusher is under new management. tony hayward is out, bps bob dudley is in. the government is trying to fight a battle to keep the six-month moratorium on place. to the white house, quickly -- quick. talk about quick. that was a pretty quick meeting. that was just about 20 well try and get word to find out if, indeed, the general is

Portions of the southern and central plains by late in the day. one good thing we have in our favor in terms of the heat, well, thing will be a little cooler along parts of the gulf coast. we have had highs that have been in the upper 90s. for new orleans, looks like 87 degrees expected high. few showers along the coast now. cool things down. also increase the humidity levels. a little bit of tradeoff there. 105 in phoenix. 75 in los angeles. 75 in seattle. 84 degrees in new york. washington, d....