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You and your son went out to volunteer. you were trying to rescue wills great grandmother. >> we left home at 8:15 sunday morning to go after wills great grandma -- >> in a boat? >> in a boat. >> and she had already been rescued, but you got word that other people needed rescued. >> right. steve and his in-laws needed rescued. will was the command center for us. >> will, you were the command center? >> yes, sir. >> how was that? >> it got kind of boring just sitting there. >> yeah. >> but i was ...

>> right. steve and his in-laws needed rescued. will was the command center for us. >> will, you were the command center? >> yes, sir. >> how was that? >> it got kind of boring just sitting there. >> yeah. >> but i was checking in with my worried mom. >> you were on the cell phone. >> i was on the cell phone. >> were you ever scared? >> not -- >> because you were right by the waters edge. >> kind of. the water was rising very quickly. >> yeah? >> he was a big help to you then? >> he was a big he...

These, essential looks like your backyard swimming pool noodles but they are larger and this is inserted into the pvc fabric and it goes all the way down the line and, eventually, will be strewn out along the coastline, in and around the gulf of mexico. two things you have seen over the past week. as far as video goes, number one, the big oil slick and yesterday from flying, from new orleans to orlando, i knew over some of the ribbons of brown and rust-colored oil over the gulf of mexico. 141 mi...

Be much, much tougher to clean it up. this is absorbent the secondary boom, it will keep the oil in place so it can be collected by a skimmer. the idea is youll have other fisherman, air boats come to this pwafrpblg, go out and deploy this. as the oil moves in this is our mobile command center. anywhere from two to five of these can help protect the parish on the eastern flange. it -- flank. the important thing is the local fisherman know this area like the back of their hands. >> reporter: it w...

Megyn: weve got breaking news coming in on this gulf oil spill. governor bobby jindal wrapping up a news conference about his states efforts to deal with this disaster. chris gutierrez is live at premier industries in venice, louisiana, thats where the governor has just joined him, chris. >> hi, megyn. we are on top of a jack up both. it is loaded with this white absorbent pwaofplt. >> it will be doing two things, it will be a command center. local fisherman and locals will be out there in the w...

Be carrying 100-ton dome to the site of the leak. the plan, drop the dome on top of the oil well. use a hose to pump the oil to a ship on the surface. thats a distance of roughly a mile. were told the dome method has never been used at anywhere near that depth, making this attempt for all practical purposes experimental at best. if it works, the device could start collecting oil on monday. kris gutierrez is live in venice, louisiana tonight. we hear locals are not waiting, that theyre taking thi...

>> my understanding is its going to be bps ceo who is having a meeting today? >> yes. the guidance i have has the ceo and the american chair. >> can you tell me, i have two questions, another one on bp. can you tell me who the president actually spoke with at bp? and also, any reaction on ahmadinejads comments? >> i dont -- i can check -- i dont believe the president has spoken with anybody at bp. obviously, they have -- secretary salazar convened a meeting with the ceos of the oil companies las...

Feel that b.p. gave you accurate estimate which has now made your job tougher? >> i dont think there is any indication of that. maybe there are some facts that im not aware of. remember, we had 5,000 feet of riser pipe that had to be surveyed by an r.o.v. there doesnt appear to be a leak, because we have not seen all the sections of the pipe. this thing kind of revealed itself over several days. b.p. has provided us the live video feed from our rov into our command center. it is a matter of how ...

What independent government agencies were also seeing were the same thing. first, the first day, of course, you had the explosion. the focus was on search and rescue. realize this was a very active search and rescue site. it wasnt until two days later that the rig itself went down and there again, not much oil seen coming to the surface. it evolved over time, but i will say, once again, that we were already pre-positioning vessels and boom and setting up a command center, realizing that we were ...

Chair. >> can you tell me, i have two questions, one is a follow-up on the bp, can you tell me who the president has actually spoken with at bp? and also any reaction on ahmadinejads comments? >> i can check -- i dont believe the president has spoken with anybody at bp. obviously they have -- secretary salazar convened a meeting with the ceos of the oil companies last week, i think we put that list of folks out. secretary salazar was in houston at the bp command center and these individuals will...