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Protection for the booms, barges and the boom material. they on thursday decided to remove all of that material way up the river, which was about a hundred some odd miles awayment i didn't wan any of that material to be relocated and certainly we needed those assets on the ground so we could deploy immediately right after this tropical storm or depression. so, thursday, i issued an executive order, we're in a state of emergency, issued that executive order that none of the assets that were dealing with the bp oil cleanup could be relocated out of our parish. >> mr. davis, whose assets are they...

Ground in louisiana where you are. since we've been checking in with you with some regularity are you seeing any improvement? >> week one better than day one. day 70 better than a month ago. still unorganized. some places a lot of boom material in place doing a great job keeping oil out of marshes and wetlands. a little unorganized still. i still say if it was nantucket or san francisco bay off manhattan, it would be a lot more organized than down here in the deep south off louisiana. >> cory, everybody is tracking the storm right now. how worried are folks down there about the impact of tropi...

The existing blowout preventer to stop flow, or put a second block preventer or similar valve to stop the flow. additional data will be gathered to see if these options are viable and that work will continue over the next 48 hours. our relief well drilling continues. the relief well is at approximately 9,000 feet and making progress ahead of plan. onshore i think the admiral's covered many of the details. we deployed over 130,000 feet of boom yesterday. we are approaching a million feet deployed. we have over 2.3 million additional feet, either coming from existing stocks in the united states,...

Right. now the barge has to back out to deploy all of this boom material. this is a massive, massive undertaking. what you see here is just the beginning. hundreds of miles of boom will be deployed to protect oyster beds and fish spawning grounds. but these lines that are designed to stop oil also stop fishing boats. does this mean the season is over as long as this boom is out here? >> as the boom goes up, the boats won't have access to the fishing grounds. so their season is over. >> reporter: signs are all over town. >> here is where we process -- we process, we get the meat out of the shel...

For those key issues, but this has the potential of being purely devastating. >> you say we're doing everything we can, booms are one thing, what else can be or are you doing? >> we have set up the booms in the priority areas to hopefully block access to key areas of like delta national wildlife refuge also where folks are going out as we speak in this kind of weather, i don't know if you can see the wind, but it's really high wind. so once you get out of these protected areas in open water, the waves are seven foot and that's real tough on small boats and you need small boats to get the boom ...