but in fact two people involved with the response have been killed. we believe they were civilians and not a part of the coast guard, military or anything like that. but people who were actually working down there have been killed. not a lot of details but we did hear from admiral thad allen some details he gave us just a short time ago. take a listen. we had two deaths reported on people involved in this response earlier today. one was an accident regarding a swimming event and the other was a vessel operator in gulf shores, mississippi. our thoughts and prayers go out to their families. this is a devastating thing to happen and we understand the gulf shores police department is following up on the death of the vessel of opportunity operator. a vessel of opportunity operator is a reference to the shrimpers, some of the boaters who can t work because of the gulf oil. they went out and they used their own vessels to help out in the gulf oil response. that s what s called a vessel of