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>> reporter: john, often those things are separate. commercial and environmental interests are in two separate areas. here they are not. you damage the environment, you damage the fishery, and when you do that, the women and men who (%)%t work on the and cant get the oysters go to work in the oil industry. now they have the moratorium on the oil industry, the oil industry has a bad name. theyre mad at the oil industry but if you cant get shrimp or oysters, the other job is working in the oil ind...

>> we appreciate your perspective and i want to bring into the conversation, jessica yellin sitting here with me. as we watch the pictures, this is the prelude. this is the coming attractions in the movie theater. we see tony hayward with staff and attorneys in the room. we see journalists in the room. the members are beginning to come in. this is americas new villain at the moment. fairly or unfairly, the american people, and especially the people in the gulf coast -- the mention of his name ca...

Welcome back. im fredricka whitfield in atlanta. live pictures of capitol hill as we get ready for whats likely to be a day of fiery questions posed from lawmakers with the house subcommittee of energy and commerce. posing these questions to the ceo tony hayward of bp. hes expected to stick with his 11-page script. he has a statement that we have also been privy to where he will apologize profusely, acknowledge mistakes have been made involving bp and the oil spill that took place. now 59 days a...

Who is the third party? we want to know how the money will get to us. the feels is we can have high level discussions about escrows and money, how does it get through to the people who need it? you discussed it with respect to the claims process. the frustration on the ground, as you know, john, from being around here, these are not people who live high on the hog. these people make a living, and its something your father did and your kids might do after you. thats the frustration. how do we get...

Forward. the partisanship we see is paralyzing the ability to do that, which is why i wrote the book i did, "why we hate the oil companies" because we cannot make progress with this level of partisanship. >> john hoff miter and jessica yellin. we have a team of reporters across the gulf of mexico. we are continuing to wait for the testimony from tony hayward on the top right of your screen, and he will testify that they still dont know what caused the continued spewing of oil into the gulf of me...

Unacceptable and that his sadness grows, and in his words during an 11-page statement he is expected to read, that he will not rest until the well is under control. we have team coverage of the testimony that is expected to be rather fiery on capitol hill today before a house energy and commerce subcommittee. we have team coverage from atlanta to the gulf coast and to washington as well. i will send it over to john king, host of "j.k. usa." you can see there are correspondents all across the map...

Shore is yesterday i went out with the coast guard to burn the oil gathered around the spill site. its about 3 to 12 miles from the site of the deepwater horizon. they are collecting these oil in booms and burning them. this is actually, john, a relative success in this operation. they are burning on some days -- we only know this anecdote tale, up to 5,000 barrels of oil an hour and up to 30,000 or 40,000 barrels a day. you see a success burning the oil so it doesnt get to shore and kill pelica...

Hayward. he is in the hot seat today. he is to testify today in part to apologize, to acknowledge mistakes were made and also make promise that bp will try to do right as we are now in day 59 of the continued oil leak in the gulf of mexico. we have team coverage on the testimony on capitol hill and the ripple effect from coast to coast. our john king, host of "j.k. sauft" is in washington and congressional correspondent dana bash on capitol hill and christine romans in new york. lets begin with ...