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Your job? >> cant get live bait in. so thats pretty much where we make most of our money from is live bait. >> reporter: because it shut down the commercial fishing. >> yep, all the way back to look borne and out through the gulf, pretty much, all shut down. >> reporter: and basically, the issue here, drew, is some people are very concerned, and for good reason. but some people arent as much alarmed in terms of estimates of tar balls here in lake pontchartrain alone, theyre saying somewhere in t...

Stressed research and backing of oil experts and engineers. however, now the engineers are speaking out saying their expert analysis has been misrepresent misrepresented the support the moratorium, writing a letter to the interior secretary, "a blanket moratorium is not the answer. it will have the indirect effect of hurting thousands of workers and impact state and local economies suffering from the spill." since then the interior secretary sent a letter admitting the administration independent...

Stressed research and backing of oil experts and engineers. however, now the engineers are speaking out saying their expert analysis has been misrepresent misrepresented the support the moratorium, writing a letter to the interior secretary, "a blanket moratorium is not the answer. it will have the indirect effect of hurting thousands of workers and impact state and local economies suffering from the spill." since then the interior secretary sent a letter admitting the administration independent...

Mounting frustration. >> i think david cameron will acknowledge concern where its legitimate and the same time hell say where anger has perhaps gotten out of hand or given the impression being zenophobic in the way its expressed can only be counterproductive. >> reporter: the newest estimate of government that gushed in the oil before this took hold is up to 25,000 to 30,000 barrels per day, six times the original 5,000 barrel estimate. enough billowing oil to equal exxon valdez spill in the gul...

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And they say -- >> bret: the top story of the bottom of the hour, new figures show the amount of oil flowing from broken well in the gulf coast may double the estimates. there is a real disagreement on what to do about offshore drilling from this point on. correspondent william la jeunesse has more on a controversy we first brought you thursday night. >> we will continue the existing moratorium and stop permits for deepwater wells for six months. >> reporter: obama administration stressed resear...

Spilling untold thousands of barrels more. the new one goes from next week to next month. why? because 53 days into this, only now are they bringing in additional ships from as far away as the north sea which may or may not have enough capacity. unlike the two vessels on-site which we know fall woefully short of the 40,000 barrel estimate we just got yesterday. >> first of all, i think were still dealing with the flow estimate and were still trying to refine those numbers. one portion of the wor...