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Many boats have been retained by bp to help fight the spill which we understand our ability to procure oysters and satisfy our business footprint was taken away from us. >> reporter: many of the workers filed claims with bp and quickly got compensation checks. a skeleton crew will continue to clean the plant and maintain the pasturization tanks, a process patented here. now the 75-gallon tanks are bone dry. fahey hopes one day soon hell be able to get the family of workers together again and bac...

Police cordons are trying to keep demonstrators on the street. the crowd largely appears to be dispersing. in some places the crowd is quite merry. we were down at an intersection a few blocks from here last hour where things were getting tense. the police put on gas masks and it looked as though they were ready to take action, but the demonstrators started singing, dancing and chanting. several of them were holding up their hands with the peace sign in front of them. the tension seemed to dissi...