morning. their contracts have been confirmed of being in the system. that s the good news. bad news is that hundreds of other people are in the system, on the waiting list. is there a chance these two gentlemen will get work with your program? there is a chance but we can t displace someone else who perhaps entered the program earlier just to move people forward just because they happened to talk to cnn. you can t offer anybody any guidance about whether they re going to get called or not. that s correct. that s a tough position to put all these guys in, who are not making livings any more. it is. it is. you acknowledge that? absolutely. and louisiana alone, about 1,900 vessels are on the waiting list. gary tuchman, cnn, home of louisiana. some really tragic news tonight about one man who was hired by bp to help with the cleanup efforts. a fishing boat captain in alabama. on wednesday morning, he took his own life.
countless natural disasters, but which may not survive this catastrophe made entirely by man. monday night, cnn aired a telethon for the gulf oil spill. thanks to many of you, $1.8 million was raised. three charities, the united way, nature conservancy and the national wildlife federation. lenny kravitz took part in the program and joined me earlier for the big 360 interview. thanks for being with us. my pleasure. you have a house down here, you ve been living here 17 years. yes, first home i ever purchased. and you have already early on, you performed at a concert for to benefit folks in the spill? yeah. we had the concert that was gulf aid. and it was a quick reaction. it was about two weeks afterwards. it was put together in a matter of days. and we raised some good money. now there s a song you put on itunes that you did with a bunch
reporter: as a gesture to the community now grieving for him, kruse s family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought back here to home port in orange beach. here it is, the rookie. no better way that they could think of, to pay tribute to a man who loved what he did for a living and loved the waters where he worked. it s the rookie s final voyage, carrying a cargo of uncertainty and sorrow. david mattingly, cnn, orange beach, alabama. allen kruse was just 55 years old. up next, a family-run business right here in new orleans now in jeopardy. they ve been distributing oysters here since 1876. then came the bp spill and everything has changed. also ahead tonight, lenny kravitz. he has a house here in new orleans, a message and the disaster and the resiliency of this city. [ male announcer ] it s the most fuel-efficient
countless natural disasters, but which may not survive this catastrophe made entirely by man. monday night, cnn aired a telethon for the gulf oil spill. thanks to many of you, $1.8 million was raised. three charities, the yunded way, nature conservancy and the national wildlife federation. lenny kravitz took part in the program and joined me earlier for the big 360 interview. thanks for being with us. my pleasure. you have a house down here, you ve been living here 17 years. yes, first home i ever purchased. and you have already early on, you performed at a concert for to benefit folks in the spill? yeah. we had the concert that was gulf aid. and it was a quick reaction. it was about two weeks afterwards. it was put together in a matter of days. and we raised some good money. now there s a song you put on
they don t comment on individual claims. but, so far, they have cut more than 30,000 checks and paid out more than $100 million. chris lawrence, cnn, new orleans. i always talk about this with billy nungesser, president of plaquemines parish. earned $700,000 or so or should have earned that and gets offered $33,000. we re very concerned to see how that works out. and if it is a large claim and they can t put all the money up, they want to do some checking, we ve asked them to meet their obligation. if it s $50,000 a month to the bank and it s going to take them 90 days, pay them the $50,000 a month while they work out the claim. don t make them sweat it out till you come back and either make them whole or sit down and work out the difference. so, if their bills are $50,000 a month and you ve got a $400,000 claim and you want to take 90 days to review all of that and come back to them, we re asking