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Were successfully skimmed yesterday and today, high winds and big waves and having the large ship that actually performs, well, the hopes of everybody from louisiana all the way to florida, who live and make their living on the coastline, they are hoping it absolutely works. >> gregg: the weather and the waves have been less than ideal all week long, how has the containment boom or booms performed. >> reporter: crews have been going around the gulf of mexico the past two days basically determini...

Jon: what about that plan to use chemical disper sants on the oil slick? hows that going? >> reporter: the weather was really bad all weekend long, high winds not only laying out boom lines, a lot of them were breached, 80% according to alabamas governor, but the winds were too bad. the planes are loaded, theyre ready to fly, and we do expect they will begin flying over the oil slick today. they can cover 250 acres per drop. bps also conducting its second test today of actually pouring those che...