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Complete sigh of relief? >> yeah. i think that i will really would feel a lot better when the oil is cleaned up, and the fishermen can go back to work and get back to normal, where we can supply the best seafood in the world. louisiana products in seafood is the best. our restaurants will be back in line and we can tell people that we have the best seafood in the world, you know. >> reporter: thank you, glenn. as we said earlier, mr. feinberg is in there giving a speech, and he has been touring louisiana all day long, and he says in three weeks, he is going to take over the claims process. as ...

Czar ken feinberg was in louisiana. he is overseeing the claims process. for more let's bring in jeffrey bright, a lawyer representing more than 500 shrimpers is, oystermen and crabbers. good to have you back with us. the last time you were with us, you said the claims process has changed without announcement and the checks had stopped. what's the situation tonight? >> i take one step forward and two steps back it seems. today they gave me two different signals about what they were going to do. yesterday they told me they were going to give us $1,000 until we could prove more and then today, t...

Five and a half hours to inform anyone? >> well, i think what -- there are a lot of people involved in the decisions and in the process. of course, everyone needed to get informed and in line to make the announcement. but i actually agree with you. absolutely everybody -- i can assure you, all of bp -- want to move on with this as quickly as we can and get this flow stopped and we need to make sure we get you guys information as quickly as we can. hopefully we can get it faster next time. >> so you'll give us a more timely update on how the analysis is going today? >> yeah. the next press brie...

Going to happen with it and try to improve that economy in that section of manhattan. >> let's do this. let's get some folks at home, wherever you are right now, to weigh in on this at the blog, cnn.com/tony. josh, help us work through some of these blog comments later on. thank you. day 86 of the gulf oil disaster and bp plans to test a new cap on the busted oil well. well, that plan is on hold right now. officials say they need to review the testing procedures before they move forward. the hope is that the massive custom designed cap might contain the flow of oil or allow most of it to be ...

Gulf state attorneys general will be meeting with attorney general eric holder this afternoon, venting frustration over the legal access against bp. their chief complaint, it's all just too slow. jim hood joins us by phone. what is your chief beef with the way the government has been handling bp? >> well, our complaint was that about mr. feinberg and how he as handling the claims process. we attorneys general had negotiated several things with bp. we were working with them when he was named as the administrator. of course, we were advocatie fo a claims monitor, taking some input from us ags, b...