Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100614:20:17:00
>> i'm going to let thad allen, who is the national incident coordinator address this very quickly because we talked about it during our meeting. >> first of all, we have a number of different types of skimming equipment. some are offshore deep draft vessels. the skimming equipment is organically built into it. we have others with boom systems. we have shallow water skimmers inshore. they become the major resource of effectiveness to try to fight this battle offshore. we know what we're doing near the well head. we have to push the enemy f you will, back 20 or 30 miles off shore. we have over ...