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Part of the best political team on television, maybe you could have the octopus help you with some of your game day call. >> and i bet he would be better than some other people, present company not included. >> of course not, jeff. thanks so much. next on "360," a high price for the cleanup. oysters, theyre dying. oyster men say not because of the oil but because of how its being kept away and the men who rely on this work. their lives are being changed forever. >> also tonight under arrest, a...

The oil. as it stacks up, because its so heavy, it will be pushing down. so, lets say thats not enough to stop it. well, then, sanjay, the option is they look over here at the second line. they bring that second line in and they try to bring in even more mud at a higher rate, pushing it in, increasing the rate to many, many, many tons. the belief is that somewhere they reach a stasis, cutting off the flow of the oil and it stops it, at least, sanjay. thats the theory about the relief wells. >> y...

Sufficed to say if that remote circumstance came into being, you could look at years of oil spewing up into the gulf like this, sanjay. were very, very much hoping that wont be the case. sanjay? >> a lot of people optimistic right there with you as well. fascinating stuff there, tom. a high price for the cleanup. oysters are dying and oyster men say not because of the oil but because how its being kept away and the men who rely on this work. their lives are being changed forrer forever. well t...

Know the answers that a lot of people want to know? >> well, right now, people say, experts say that the flow could be 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. well, if its 45,000 barrels a day, thats an extra $3 billion in fines. if its 55,000 barrels, thats an extra $6 billion in fines. so, yeah, there is a disconnect between the amount of scientific work that has to be conducted and finished and bps interest in actually conducting that research. >> as things stand now, congressman -- im down here look...

ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. >> nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. im serious. there was no follow up. >> exxon told us it doesnt know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the work he did on the valdez made him sick. exxon did pay to study the health effects of almost every sin...

Liability and at the same time, the federal government, on behalf of the american people, have a stake in knowing just how big this problem is so that the fine on bp reflects the punishment that is equal to the harm, which they have inflicted on the people in the gulf. >> again, they have not responded to your letter. but youre convinced that this is complete obstructionism. that they simply do not want to know the answers that a lot of people want to know? >> well, right now, people say, expert...

>> ive called and registered a month and a half ago. i havent heard a response. i have three vessels and they havent called them at all. right now they can call you. you get on it, its the best thing you can do right now in my line of work. >> youre just not hearing back? >> no. theres 3,000 vessels registered right now when i registered there was about 400. a lot of my friends registered after me got hired on. i dont really understand how it works. its not fair. >> what happened to the oysters,...

Fashion. people will feel more security with the police out there, these things are not toll booths. so it will be a threat to the enemys ability to move around. as you saw flying over kandahar city and driving through it, it is not a taliban stronghold, but theres a sense of real need for law and order and theres no doubt there are taliban in there. these checkpoints will significantly reduce their ability to kind of go in, threaten people in town, and do that sort of thing. people worry about ...

Of today and the wire services its a week ahead of schedule, have you any assurance that its going to reach target and going to relieve this problem by mid-august as they claim it will by bp? >> no assurance, chris, but its got to be tried. i mean, they have tried every other option. they have got to try this option. and they will try right through to the second well, second relief well. if that doesnt work, then they are back to what do we do now, and i think thats what were into a serious ques...

Money securetized, the answer was no. the air went out of that room. when you talk about moral obligations with a company like this, its meaningless. its absolutely meaningless. >> i want to make sure from a tv point of view if we have any belief at all that the moral obligation holds water. lets go to this question of the relief well effort. john, based upon your expertise do you have confidence that the relief well that were told of today, its a week ahead of schedule, have you any assurance t...