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Not coming to the surface for financial motives and not using these skimmers? >> i -- i have been working on this project of trying to get these skimmers into the gulf for over a month now. everybody in europe where standard practice is to raise the oil and to collect it is scratching their heads and, quite honestly, laughing at what's happening in the gulf. this is -- and i've educated myself over the last month as i've gone through this process of trying to get these skimmers here because it seems self-evident that these skimmers are needed. people are down there using makeshift equipment. a...

Future, what my next chapter will bring. for now, for here, it's time to hang up the nightly suspenders. >> larry is 76 years old, says he wants to spend more time with his wife and young children and, boy, what a buzz tonight. a lot of people tweeting about larry king, anderson. >> the idea of larry not being on on a nightly basis is just -- is stunning. i know his kids are going to be happy and his wife are going to get a lot more ball games together. larry will enjoy that as well. >> going to miss him. >> hard to imagine cnn without him. back on the water. we'll go up close with oystermen...

Well, today louisiana reopened two oyster harvesting areas that were closed for the last several weeks because of the spill. they've been off limits the oystermen for several weeks. we went out with one oysterman today who is a third-generation member of his family who has been working the waters in this area. we kind of expected to see a lot of oyster boats back out there farming up oyster beds, but they weren't. part of it is that a lot of the crews now work for bp and haven't been recalled to work for the oyster boats that they normally work for. but also at least the oystermen we talked to...

There are people who are literally working 100 hour as week here. they're working hard. people in the coast guard, i suspect that even -- but to make all of this bunk is -- they just lose anything that they -- they could have. i'm sure that they -- >> well, i think -- frankly, i think the bp management has done a poor job of representing their own employees. i have no doubt their own employees are working around the clock. i have no doubt the engineers -- people working with submersible vehicles are working round the clock, not eating well. i know they're trying everything they can. but that s...

Just -- they're -- the damage and the extent to which our culture is going to be affected and -- you know, i think it's the big unknown factor. i'm not interested in -- you know, we're not in need of a hand-out today. it's more about taking a stand with a lot of the smaller restaurants and seafood-related businesses that are suffering now that i casualties now. and, you know, they're part of our way of life here in louisiana. you know, all of these things are part of why we live here and what we love about living in the gulf coast region. they're all being very dramatically affected now, but e...