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Into the shore line of louisiana. >> reporter: so louisiana governor bobby jindal has declared a state of emergency. bp has already evacuated nonessential workers from eight other rigs in the gulf. boom that has protected the fragile coast from oil is also being moved inland. >> break the anchors and pull it out and more than anything it will tear it up. once it gets torn up it's useless. >> reporter: bp's chief operating officer toured one of the ships that's been operating the cameras and the robots around the containment cap. he's hoping they can keep the rovs monitoring the cap even if the...

Kyron. >> we have a houseboat reserved for august, and he's going to be home before then. >> reporter: desiree and cane told me that they still firmly believe he is out there somewhere alive. they have reason to believe that they said but they wouldn't say what that reason is. as for terry, the stepmother, she has retained a high-profile lawyer here in portland. she reportedly has denied the allegation that she tried to hire someone so kill her husband. so far she has not spoken out publicly, nor has her lawyer. kate snow, nbc news, portland. here's a live look at the oil still gushing from ...

The two men met face-to-face, mcchrystal was called back to the white house, met with the president earlier today. that meeting has taken place, and now we are expecting to hear from the president at the bottom of the hour. when that happens, we will take you there, live. but, in fact, a lot of people do not believe general mcchrystal, the man in charge of the u.s. war in afghanistan might be out of a job here this afternoon. and is we could know sometime at the bottom of the hour. we do have all of our cnn resources standing by to talk about this story. we certainly are covering it from the p...

Affected then it's a very, very big problem. >> it's the entire food chain. are you optimistic this morning about what we've been hearing over the past 12 hours about this containment cap so far so good? >> well, like you, joe, i hope that this one works. everything that can go wrong in a situation has gone wrong. i hope this is the exception. we hope the relief wells that are now 190 feet, i understand, you know, from getting there, get there soon, because that's the only thing, as anne just said, that's very likely to be the final answer. >> let's hope so. and of course, what's happening, mi...