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Our invitation stands as always to bp to come on. more now on the skimmer shortage and the red tape angle. i talked about it just a short while ago with james carville and the president of plaquemines parish. billy, does this make any sense to you? 71 days into this thing, and they're still in need of skimmers to pick this oil up. >> it's -- how do you say we're at war and we're still piecemealing this thing one skimmer at a time, two skimmers at a time. maybe we'll set aside the jones act. maybe it doesn't have to be set aside. by now we should have a clear picture of where all the equipment ...

Piecemealed. we still are having trouble getting equipment approved through the process. >> shell oil apparently has offered up this huge vessel that they have and basically bp said no thanks and it's just sitting in a dock. >> there's many vessels all over. german, there's australia, there's dutch equipment, all these skimmers all over the world, some that can go down and get these -- this oil beneath the surface and yet none of it has been deployed. >> it strikes me that -- the language the president used, we're being invaded. but the heck with the oil spill act of 1990. they're governed by ...

To people with very positive things to say about the company. again, that's their right. but we located one of the people that was quoted. >> reporter: as the manager editor of the newspaper in larose, louisiana, vicky knows a thing or two about journalism. so when a bp employee showed up unannounced to interview her on may 21st at her office, she realized right away, she says, he had an agenda. >> i think what he did was try to come in here and get something positive. >> reporter: what kinds of questions did he ask you? >> what he wanted to know was how people's reaction was to bp. in other w...

Being affected by this? are prices going up? what's happening? >> oh, yes. the supply is definitely diminishing. you know, the variety of what we can get is definitely diminished and the price is going up. we're still seeing great things like crawfish and beautiful, you know, jumbo lump crab meat, but as you know, oysters are -- are pretty much not happening at all right now. and the -- the supply of fin fish is -- the variety is getting much less. and, you know, i think we're worried more about the future. you know, right now things -- where everybody is kind of managing, but it's the uncerta...

Urgency does not take hold here, we will lose this war and it will be his fault. >> we've got to take a quick break. more with you guys in just a minute. in the meantime, let us know what you think. join the live chat right now at ac360.com. i just want to remind you we're at the autobahn aquatic center. they're really doing remarkable work here, trying to save the lives of sea turtles. they have more than 100 of them here that they've found covered in oil. here's one of them. it is just kind of resting here. we'll have a lot more about what they're doing to take the oil off these turtles and ...