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Bps chief executive was subjected to a grilling so savage it was more like ancient rome than capitol hill. you make your own decision object what you thought tony hayward did yesterday. one thing i want to tell you a little bit about when we come back -- i talked earlier to a gentleman from the coast guard about the vessels of opportunity program. opportunity for people who cant use their vessels for either tourism or fishing to actually try to help out in this spill and recover some of the mone...

Doing with the vessel of opportunity program. >> yes, bp and the government have set up this program so they can use their boats. theres all kinds of ships out there and people who want to help can use these boats for various things, for skimming, for transporting wildlife. people are urn turning out to these huge gatherings to learn how they can take part. more than 2,000 vessels of opportunity have been registered. the real task right now is to organize them. they need to get organized about i...

>> i mean, if i talk about some of those, we have several hundred boats already in this vessel of opportunity program where people can help us. one of the issues is, of course, we havent had that much oil come ashore yet. so the number of boats -- mainly the boats being deployed to stage material. since we dont have a lot of oil ashore, we dont need a lot of boats to respond. on the issue of people whos first language isnt english, we have interpreters to make sure communication isnt getting in ...

Canceling catering contracts and stopping production of boom. jonathan serrie is live in louisiana. >> today bp announced its creating a $100 million fund to help unemployed oil rig workers facing financial hardship as a result of the moratorium on deep water drilling. the bp oil spill prompted the obama administration to impose the temporary ban to protect the environment. but economic development officials fear the moratorium could have a huge impact on louisianas $70 billion oil and gas indus...

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