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Im going to be on a vessel of opportunity thats going to be in command of several skimmers out there in the gulf of mexico. you can see that skimmer out there waiting to be deployed thats over my left shoulder along the orange beach, alabama, shoreline. were going to be working in coordination with a blimp and amber lyon will be on there. we will tell our command boat where the oil is that needs to be skimmed and well tell the smaller skimmers around us where to get that oil. certainly a unique ...

Particular oil spill. we have to use the smaller oil skimmers. im going to be on the command boat and then well order the boats around us and position them in the effective way to skim up some of this oil. its going to be a fascinating live look that you will see all day on cnn. >> we look forward to seeing it, too. thanks, rob. >> be sure to join rob marciano for his special report. its saturday and sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. meanwhile, its seven minutes past the hour. shi...

Here for ten hours, if they wanted to. but its -- what temperature is it in here right now? >> right now, inside the cabin, we have a temperature of 92 degrees with a heat index of 118. >> yeah. 118, ali. so thats why were probably not going to be sticking around here for 10 to 12 hours, but these brave guys have been doing that for the past 11 days, as they have been out here on the coast off gulf shores testing this blimp to see how useful it will be in the skimming process. and as rob marcian...