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The gushing out it will transfer to the leaks below like a leaky garden hose with a nozzle on it. when you open it up, it doesn't leak so bad. you close the nozzle it and it leaks real bad. the blowout preventer will tip over if they do not run supports to it. it's a race now, a race to drill the relief wells and take our last chance at killing this monster before the whole weakened, worry out and leaking and failing system gives up its last gasp in a horrific crescendo. the beachfront at pensacola beach covered in oil. cleanup workers struggling as the oil kept coming all day. let's bring in ...

News anchor scott walker who was prevented from speaking to cleanup workers will join me in a moment. you will recall that bp is trying to stop its own cleanup workers, many of them fishermen, from wearing protective gear as the executive director of the louisiana environmental action network told us this week. >> when our folks, our fishermen folks had their respirators on they were told to take them off, that they would be fired if they used them. i think that perhaps they're afraid they'll admit some sort of liability that there is a problem in the air if they allow them to use the respirat...

Fragile marking areas that we know is oil. the impact all this is happening on their livelihood is definitely going on today. there was a large rally in nearby town, a group protested the offshore drilling moratorium that have impacted hundreds of thousands of residents. they hope their voices will carry to a u.s. district judge on monday who will hear arguments about the moratorium. workers say they want a lift on at least part of this area. operations continue tonight after a brief shut down on the drill ship enterprise. a mechanical malfunction brought a shutdown last night. burnoff continu...

That the chairman was misunderstood and he is very much in charge until the leak is stopped. the company is taking another round of criticism that it put profit ahead of safety with a key operating safety called a long string. we have a picture for you. it's a pipe that goes to the well but they say it's very dangerous to use that method in high pressure situations or above pressure wells. if the company had put a liner system which is the other system which provides more protection and safeguards, it would have cost the company $7-10 million but would have been more costly. last night operato...

Eventually they called the jefferson parish sheriff's office on us. we didn't call the sheriff's office. they called them to intervene. the sheriff's office basically said it's a public beach. they can go where they want to go so we eventually got over to that tent which was my goal in the beginning was just to get to the tent with the cleanup workers. didn't really expect them to talk but wanted the opportunity to ask them if they had anything to say. >> when you got to them were you able to ask some questions of those workers? >> i was able to ask. once i got there and had some -- had cleara...