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Spending money, coming back to the beaches that are now cleaner than they probably have ever been in decades. all of the tourism officials say not only is it better than the last year oil spill summer of 2010, they are all time record numbers. >> the numbers we saw in 2011 were the numbers that we were on track to make in 2010, had the spill not occurred. we still lost a year. if you look at the growth curve we have a one year set back, you can never gain a last year. we are pleased with the mom...

It is about the big new ideas and innovations and solutions to big problems. in todays "big i" we want to talk about an organization solving one of the biggest problems in the world. in is the x-prize foundation, and they are tackling space, oil cleanup, and genetics and even how to get a robot to the moon. they offer tens of thousands of dollars to teams of competitors who come up with solutions to global problems. now they are designing a new competition involving a device that can diagnose a ...

X-prize. >> last years winner, we should mention, is wendy schmidt. shell also be at this brainstorming session. what was her winning submission and hows that project going? >> absolutely. wendy schmidt is the sponsor of the wendy schmidt clean-up x-challenge that we launched last year on july 29th to be responsive to the oil spill in the gulf. the competition is doing amazingly. we had over 400 teams that preregistered to compete. we narrowed down to just over 45 registered teams. and now just ...

Areas that were off-limits because of the oil spill. jeffrey kofman reports from the coast of louisiana. >> reporter: many of those shrimp boats that have been conscripted for oil cleanup for the last three months could be back shrimping very soon. with the leaking well capped and less and less oil on the wate the federal government is poised to announce a major reopening of fisheries. this huge area east of the mississippi will be open to commercial fishing for the first time in almost three mo...

Jonathan, how are the folks and business necessary your area where youre at being affected by the spill? >> reporter: right now im at the dean blanchard seafood company. on a typical day they would handle 40,000 pounds of shrimp, in the wake of the oil spill, its down to zero. if you pan over here you can see the shrimping vessels and other commercial fishing vessel, many converted into vessels of opportunity, carrying boom out to the sites and involved in the oil cleanup and while thats providi...

The vessels ordinarily used in shrimping and fishing have been recruited as vessels of opportunity to assist in the bp oil cleanup. and while individual fishermen can make good money doing this, they worry about the long term consequences. whats going to happen as this oil continues to diminish and the cleanup effort scales back. when can they go back to fishing, when will the restricted areas reopen, an even after these areas reopen, how long will it take to reassure american consumers this sea...

Much as 6 inches of rain, in some parts of south florida, and when will the south florida area get rid of bonnie? were told not until later this afternoon, maybe this evening and the worst part they say is heading out towards the gulf and maybe this evening and early tomorrow morning and there are more than 4,000 vessels, martha, in the gulf region, and they are out there doing the cleanup, oil cleanup and, the word has come down they have to move in, martha. martha: orly, thank you very much. b...

Im rob nelson. >> im vinita nair. >> the massive operation to stop the giant oil spill in the gulf is slowing down this morning and may be going backwards. >> after a week of hard-fought gains that finally gave gulf residents a little bit of hope, that battered region is now facing a new threat. john hendren is in buras, louisiana, with the very latest. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. with that oil spill seeming closer than ever to ending for good, today there is t...

Reports of bp moving some of those vessels of opportunity into shore away from oil cleanup and equipment and supplies to higher ground. this is something theyre going to expect to do for the next couple of months because were going to probably see one tropical system after another form in the caribbean and head to the gulf. savannah and chuck. >> for sure. anne thompson, when august kicks in, every week that were talking about this story. >> reporter: yep. >> thank you very much. later today, ...

Thorough investigation. >> in terms of an inquiry, im not currently minded that we need to have a u.k. based inquiry on this. partly for this reason, i dont need an inquiry to tell me what was a bad decision. it was a bad decision. >> the only way that -- to restore the integrity of what happened and to continue the integrity of the british government and integrity that we respect is to do a full and complete investigation. >> so that was cameron during an afternoon press conference knocking dow...