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And the struck they stole in albuquerque. >> how good is the evidence that they are indeed in the environs of yellowstone where montana and arizona convert? >> it is very good. we are confident. they are in the yellowstone area through a variety of sources and we are sending additional marshals there and other officers to look around. >> lets put the picture up. can we put the picture up? >> if you see it call 911. we have a command post in phoenix call it 602-542-1212. if they are seen call 911...

Big bang for your buck on having money stimulate the economy through unemployment. but invest strategically in sectors that you know will cause growth to happen. those decisions about investing in order to grow, if you grow, thats going to bring down your deficit. that is the smartest economic strategy to be able to both help citizens get jobs and to reduce the deficit. >> and quickly, finally here, governor, i know that youre in marshall, michigan, tonight, which is a unified command post for t...

This is being used to check this out and make sure all of it is doing okay. how many missions have you guys been on to check out the boom and what type of damage have you seen? >> we have been looking for boom up and down the coastline of alabama, mississippi, and florida over the past ten days. we have seen boom incursion and sunken boom and reporting it back to the command post in mobile, alabama. we are flying over florida, which is perdido bay, and if we pan to the right, we are looking here...

I can tell you though that the ongoing operations offshore are proceeding very well. we have a number of offshore skimmers that are collecting good amounts of oil. the good news, as you said earlier, contessa, there is no more free flowing oil so were able to stay on top of the remaining volume out there right now. >> when you say free flowing though, does that mean there is concern now about the seeping oil coming from the sea floor? >> i meant the oil that was already released. the good news i...

Galveston area. kriv reporter andrea watkins is in galveston so tell us how this news is being treated in texas. >> well, galvestons mayor says that it is troublesome, absolutely. there is no reason to panic. he says this is a very small amount of tar balls right now and they are staying on top of the cleanup. but they do confirm by testing these tar balls that they did come from the deep water horizon spill. now, how it got here, whether it was pushed by the recent storm that we had in the gulf...

Boats to find out where the oil is at, and they report back to us through radio and telephone, et cetera, to find out where it is at. once we know where the oil is at, we send the skimmers to pick it up. >> and the skimmers, are they different boats? >> theyre different. the shrimpers do not operate -- theyre contractors who do that. >> now, the coast guard, we have run into obviously a lot of coast guard people here. some like you are active duty. a lot of reservists, as well. >> yes. down here...

On, bp has taken some space over there and training people. >> yes, sir. its right down the street. its a small town, so we coordinate with the locals to use whatever resources we can. >> we were here the other night when president obama was making a speech from the oval office. we sat and watched it with a number of the locals from here. theyre hard-working, passionate group of people. >> oh, definitely. i have addressed several of those classes that has training, and the questions they ask ind...

Got to love the one-stop shopping. >> once i tell you about this, everybody will want to go to this site. whether you want to go on vacation or get a better handle on watts going on, heres the website across the top, joe joe platform.gov/gulfresponse. you can look for the three day forecast of where the oil will be. for months now, you can see where the tar balls are expected to be. if you go down the line, you can see some of the options that you have. you can find things like the command post,...

With problems as as opposed toed to waiting for the government. >> theres a conduit incident commander. after the visit down there, i talked to the president about this, we established specific deputies for the command post in mobile, for mississippi, alabama and florida. we guaranteed governor crist, we put a group of coast guard folks into that emergency operation center in tall has, well do the same in mississippi and bullocksy. if theres a problem we reduce the cycle time. well put leadershi...

Officials are feeling they will have to take steps on their own and deal with. problems as opposed to bait waiting for the federal government. >> i talked to the president about this yesterday, we established specific deputies for the incident and command post for mississippi, alabama, and florida. we also guaranteed governor crist, this is a group of coast guard folks into their emergency operation center in tallahassee. to the extent they think theres a problem, it doesnt matter to us. weve go...