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>> bret: the federal government and b.p. closed the deal on the $20 billion reimbursement fund for the gulf coast and work on the final step to close the broken oil well resumed. senior correspondent rick leventhal is live in homa, louisiana, with details. good evening. >> good evening. tonight were inside the b.p. and coast guard joint operation center where 17 state and federal agencies are working together to handle and manage the off-shore, nearshore and on shore oil clean-up and recovery ef...

>> bret: the federal government and b.p. closed the deal on the $20 billion reimbursement fund for the gulf coast and work on the final step to close the broken oil well resumed. senior correspondent rick leventhal is live in homa, louisiana, with details. good evening. >> good evening. tonight were inside the b.p. and coast guard joint operation center where 17 state and federal agencies are working together to handle and manage the off-shore, nearshore and on shore oil clean-up and recovery ef...

Flowing, will we pack up and go? the answer is clearly no, were not gonna do that. off shore, we continue to make progress. were running the casing in the relief well just now. well be cementing that casing later on tonight and into tomorrow. weve got the equipment all hooked up to perform the static kill. and once we get the case run and cemented, well cally perform that operation and once we get the go ahead from admiral allen. current forecast is well do that activity on tuesday. after that, ...

So they got everybody out of harms way. better safe than sorry. but theyll be able to get back there pretty quickly beginning tomorrow. the gulf now, a little bit of a ripple wave, running at one foot on the shore. out in the bouies, off shore, two to three footers. thats not a big deal. the impact overall is very minimal. lyn, i dont know if you use mousse in your hair. this morning i didnt have to put any mousse in my hair because the winds are only running three, four miles an hour. >> its al...

Dollars. that business may be forced overseas to the singapores of this world, to the englands of this world, that may well happen. that means a lot of business, jobs, off shore, going away. leaving new york city. >> did you say jobs? >> i did say jobs. >> you have something in common with nancy pelosi. listen to this. >> this is about that four-letter word. i use it all the time. jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. show us the jobs. where are the jobs? we keep sending jobs bills over to the senate, and the...

Years dug out in this area, without one incident of problems. butler is with smart an off shore. i know were hearing about the bp spill, the oil industry watching this closely. how frustrating is it for the oil industry, when you know the statisting, weve done the research, we know how successful youve been and how there hasnt been any environmental problem at all, anywhere in this area. >> adam, thats absolutely correct. the deepwater horizon was definitely a very serious accident and an incide...

Well find our nick watt. i dont know what the wind is like where you are, nick, or the conditions are like but theyve deteriorated here over the past hour or so. >> reporter: yeah, thats right, don. i mean were about 15 miles up the coast from you and it is similar. you know, all day we were getting battered by winds coming from inland, coming off-shore, and actually, you know, this morning about 5:00 a.m. i was trying to grab a few hours of sleep and the wind was so strong it was actually movin...

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