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Doing with the vessel of opportunity program. >> yes, bp and the government have set up this program so they can use their boats. there's 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 it. here's what admiral thad allen said today. >> we're organizing these vessels of opportunities in...

On, bp has taken some space over there and training people. >> yes, sir. it's right down the street. it's a small town, so we coordinate with the locals to use whatever resources we can. >> we were here the other night when president obama was making a speech from the oval office. we sat and watched it with a number of the locals from here. they're hard-working, passionate group of people. >> oh, definitely. i have addressed several of those classes that has training, and the questions they ask indicate to me that they're passionate about what they're doing and want to help out. >> how are the...

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He, based here in london, looking overall at the entire situation. so in that sense, what he was saying is how not he was involved in the hundreds of hundreds of drills being drilled around the world, but trying to be in charge of the operation for the clean-up. >> jim, tell me this. you and i are both -- our pedigree is in business news and we interview ceos around the world. is there something we are missing about tony hayward who comes across as lackluster and not particularly strong? he was described yesterday as having a flat affect in the meeting. there is often some secret where they sa...

Americans, and particularly to those people living in the gulf of mexico where i am, but it seemed to play differently in the uk where it appeared that he was savaged by u.s. congressmen. >> yes, one paper called him the most hated man in america, "the guardian." and "the financial times" said he was mauled in congress. they're not saying they don't understand what's going on in the u.s. or down playing what happened in the gulf at all. there are some business leaders who said that maybe all the blame shouldn't go on to bp. but i think we go back to where tony hayward was, the global ceo of a ...