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Today's "mission possible," helping people get fit without going broke. first, a big story. changes in the information we had an hour ago, tell us about it. >> bp wants to make it clear in their mind, even though the chairman said on british television a few hours ago that bob dud di from bp would now take over the operations in the gulf, bp said, in fact, that's not necessarily what they're trying to say. they're saying bob dudley, who was brought in a few weeks to go to take over the political and community relations, that hasn't changed. they want to make it clear, as of now, tony hayward...

I've often pointed out we want to look at bp's responsibility, what the oil industry's responsibility was, what the regulators like mms and the department of the interior, what their responsibility was, what our responsibility as a society is as we keep on using oil. i have not heard in 60 days someone apologizing to bp. that one was an entirely new one to me. listen to this, the guy who's supposed to be in charge of the recovery here, president obama talked about a recovery czar, someone to deal with recovery in the gulf of mexico, where does that stand? >> reporter: it's interesting. it's be...

Aung san suu kyi. she's been in prison or under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years. she was first jailed back in 1990. that's when her party one in national landslide elections. the government's never recognized the results. three years can make a huge difference in a person's career. ask bp's tony hayward. randi kaye filed this report. it talks about the promises hayward made along the way. >> reporter: as bp execs entered the white house, cameras were drawn especially to this man, ceo tony hayward, a lightning rod for all of the anger at bp. for hayward, it's a long fall from where h...

The way it works, when you have a big global executive of a company. there are other -- many layers, actually, of executives in a size a company this large that oversee day-to-day operations. a bp spokesman telling our allen chernoff that tony hayward is leading the initial response, but someone like bob dudley will handle the longer term response. he's on the board of bp who started his own career at amoco in the u.s. in 1979 and had a lot of experience at working in the oil business in russia, as well. but you remember that bp and amoco -- that was an acquisition from 199, so a lot of the ex...

Leave his committee post. time now for the "xyz" of it. all this week, i've been touring the gulf of mexico on the cnn express. it's our mobile coach that allows us to move from town to town following the story. the story i've sought is the one of families and their passions in this part of the nation. in many other venues, the environment and business are loggerheads. if the mix of salt and freshwater is as affected as it was by hurricane katrina, the irony is after having their livelihoods destroyed, they now depend on bp for work by using their vessels to help mitigate the damage of the s...