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Protection for the booms, barges and the boom material. they on thursday decided to remove all of that material way up the river, which was about a hundred some odd miles awayment i didnt wan any of that material to be relocated and certainly we needed those assets on the ground so we could deploy immediately right after this tropical storm or depression. so, thursday, i issued an executive order, were in a state of emergency, issued that executive order that none of the assets that were dealing...

Ground in louisiana where you are. since weve been checking in with you with some regularity are you seeing any improvement? >> week one better than day one. day 70 better than a month ago. still unorganized. some places a lot of boom material in place doing a great job keeping oil out of marshes and wetlands. a little unorganized still. i still say if it was nantucket or san francisco bay off manhattan, it would be a lot more organized than down here in the deep south off louisiana. >> cory, ev...

The existing blowout preventer to stop flow, or put a second block preventer or similar valve to stop the flow. additional data will be gathered to see if these options are viable and that work will continue over the next 48 hours. our relief well drilling continues. the relief well is at approximately 9,000 feet and making progress ahead of plan. onshore i think the admirals covered many of the details. we deployed over 130,000 feet of boom yesterday. we are approaching a million feet deployed....

Right. now the barge has to back out to deploy all of this boom material. this is a massive, massive undertaking. what you see here is just the beginning. hundreds of miles of boom will be deployed to protect oyster beds and fish spawning grounds. but these lines that are designed to stop oil also stop fishing boats. does this mean the season is over as long as this boom is out here? >> as the boom goes up, the boats wont have access to the fishing grounds. so their season is over. >> reporter: ...

For those key issues, but this has the potential of being purely devastating. >> you say were doing everything we can, booms are one thing, what else can be or are you doing? >> we have set up the booms in the priority areas to hopefully block access to key areas of like delta national wildlife refuge also where folks are going out as we speak in this kind of weather, i dont know if you can see the wind, but its really high wind. so once you get out of these protected areas in open water, the wa...

Tied to shore. we found crews deploying the towns last line of defense, a floating yellow boom. at this point the job is actually pretty simple. this boom is anchored to this barrier island over here to my right. now the barge has to back out to deploy all of this boom material. this is a massive, massive undertaking. what you see here is just the beginning. hundreds of miles of boom will be deployed to protect oyster beds and fish spawning grounds, but these lines that are designed to stop oil ...

This boom is anchored to this barrier island over here to my right. now the barge just has to back out to deploy all of this boom material. but this is a massive, massive under ta uds taking. what you see is just the beginning. >> hundreds of miles of booms will be put in place. but these lines are are to stop oil stop the fishing boats. does this mean the season is over? >> as the boom goes up, the boats wont have access to the fising grounds, and so their season is over. >> reporter: signs are...

C-130s capable of dropping that chemical substance on the spill. we are seeing the navy move in with miles of that boom material that they are going to lay on the water. the military is talking about trying to be ready to help clean up if an oil spill disaster emerges on shore governor bobby jindal saying that he wants to activate 6,000 national guard to be ready onshore under his state authority to help with the cleanup and to protect vital facilities from any oil. the white house is obviously ...

Operations and laying the booms. most of them were at anchor in the mississippi river over the weekend because of the wind and waves. i got out on a smaller boat, the second day, get out to the mouth of the gulf and the mississippi river. it was too tough beyond there. we did see a bart÷ along the way that was staging some of this boom material. theyve laid out several hundred thousand feet. theyve got plenty more to go. the key is to put it in strategic places. the slick appears to be moving i...