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The spill. let's do to jim bolden in london with more on the new development from bp. jim? >> that's right, ali. we've just heard on the television here, sven bird speaking to fox news, and he said he would hand over day-to-day operations in the gulf to bob dudley, he's an american who works for bp, in charge of bp's operations in russia that were extremely difficult. it's called bptnk and has now gone on to bp in the u.s. and this will put an american voice and american face on to this crisis. also, he's an extremely important person within bp. so you can see what's happening here that they a...

Ground, a very prominent man here in the uk. i used to interview him, other people used to interview him and then a scandal happened in his personal life and problems in the u.s. with safety. so they brought in an engineer, a man who grew through bp, who has this incredible background, phd. he's -- they decided they've got to go to a guy who understands the oil side of things, and that's where he has been focusing. and i can tell you, ali, the entire time he has been the ceo, i have never done an interview with him. he's not the kind of guy you see in person or in public very often. and i can ...

Petroleum, he said there were too many people in the company trying to save the world and our priority is not saving the world, it's creating value for our shareholders and he may be entirely right at that. but in light of the things that have happened right now, tony hate ward has not had the grandest 24 hours in his career. thanks for bringing us up to speed. you'll let us know as things develop. but what we do know now is that bp's chairman said to sky news that ceo tony hayward is going to be handing over day-to-day operations in the gulf to bp's managing director, bob dudley, here in the ...