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Pushing oil past those protective booms, skimming efforts have been sidelined because of this and right now they can't burn oil off the surface of the water right now because of those high waves. also, massive tanker ship is arriving in the gulf. it's about 3 1/2 football fields long. big deal about this -- able to suck up about 21 million gallons of oily water a day. they're counting on that to help some of the skimming efforts. back here in pensacola, business owners say they're getting about half of the business that they normally get this time of year. >> first one's got hit are the ones t...

Yesterday accomplished a good bit. we have some boat owners, some shrimpers, some charter captains whose boats can be used and the president, i think, is about to take ownership of that and get in and allow these people who actually are losing their livelihoods to get out there and be part of the solution. i think the claims process has been terrible. i think it's about to get better, i hope. and there are a number of things that we can do. i'm grateful that the administration is prepared to allow shallow water drilling, which is a whole different safety issue to resume again because we don't ...

Claims process works for small businesses throughout the gulf coast who have been put out of business lieu through no fault their own or almost being put out of business. and if this h doesn't get fixed soon, will be. so those are grocery stores, catering company, small hotels, large hotels, convention company, service companies along the gulf who had nothing to do and just find therapieses collapsing because of this oil spill. bp's claims process and the federal government's claims process must work for them. in addition, i held a hearing today as the chair of the small business committee wit...

Safe. the oil rig workers themselves are covered by a $100 million fine from bp, they are all right. but the loaders, the caters, the support jobs, they have no way to recoup their losses. we took these concerns to ken feinberg on how to clean up the claims process. will you be handling any claims at all for people whose businesses have been affected by the moratorium? >> yes. i now have discoffered, discovered, i didn't read this until yesterday, but those claims will fall under my jurisdiction. >> that's a huge development. we didn't know that before. >> i didn't either. i just learned yeste...