one, they could have gone out where these barges were deployed if they needed to inspect the life jackets, needed to inspect the fire extinguishers, they should have gone out where the barges were deployed instead of forcing them to stop removing that oil. after 24 hours, it didn t seem like the left hand knew what the right hand was doing. the command in control infrastructure didn t work. that s why we re saying all along, we need to intensify this effort. following this story for us, ed lavendera. it seems to be a prime example of some officials saying, look, there s no inspection stickers on this or we need to inspect this. they could have inspected it while it was still field and operating. that s what governor jindal had hoped they had done. it was kind of strange, this 24-hour window, at least according to the governor s office, just a lot of confusion. they were depending on us, asking us what the coast guard was telling us about when these boats, these barges would be se
in louisiana, according to the governor, these vacuums working just fine to clean up the oil, not cleaning up huge amounts of oil but making a dent. why did the coast guard shut them down? you know, when i grow up, i m going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i m going to go there.
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but now it turns out they didn t even inspect them, just sent them back. that s what the governor s office is saying. we did see them this afternoon, 16 of them were tied up to the tied up there to the port and they were sent back out. but when we asked the admiral thad allen in charge of the response here, we pressed him. we talked about it was done for safety reasons and that sort of thing. i asked him specifically, look, the governor is saying there was this 24-hour window where they couldn t get any straight answers of what was going on. he stepped back pretty intensely. you can listen to him here. let s take a look. i just gave you the answer. we needed to do safety checks to make sure they could operate out there with stability and nobody could get hurt. we worked through that today. i ve been on the water of the last two hours and we ve reached an accommodation of how to move forward. we will run into new it can nolgs, and things that haven t been tried before. we want
these barges for some sort of inspection which, according to the governor s office, never took place. that s what they re saying. they re saying we lost 24 hours. they weren t on there and the equipment they ve put on these barges is starting to suck up a lot more oil. the numbers we ve been talking about, they think will go up thousands and thousands in the coming weeks. they have 16 out there now and 14 more that are supposed to be coming. the governor said they would like to ramp these up so there s more than 100 of them out there, really attacking this oil with bigger machines, bigger vacuums and getting up what they can. they re big into this. these barges are deployed into the marshy grass area. this isn t out on the water but in the marsh land, in the edges of this marsh grass. the oil is sitting out there. occasionally bp sends people out with these absorbent pads to literally soak it up. local officials are saying it s not doing the job. it s disgusting. in the corne