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Louisiana closed the shrimping beds west of the mississippi. as you know, fishing has been closed all along the state waters east of the mississippi and seafood is a crucial industry down here, as is charter boat fishing. and communities like venice have been impacted severely by this oil spill, even though oil has yet to reach its shores. alex? >> yeah. you know what, ann, you're saying at the top of your report a whole bunch of ifs and we hope and all that, and you said 48 hours. granted we know this hasn't been done before at this level under the ocean of nearly a mile down, but is anybody ...

Has got to be inert so it doesn't explode or have a problem with the methane gas that is down there that they have to contain. >> heather: you bring up a good point. that methane gas hasn't been focused on as much as we focused on other things in this entire debate. methane gas is coming up with the oil and that could lead to a massive explosion. in your view, are we adequately addressing that? >> i think the team is, but i'll be very frank. i don't know specifically. but that's what caused the original explosion, we believe. so i'm sure they are, heather. i've got a great deal of confidence i...

The first is to essentially take rubber cuttings and clog the leak. that would be the first thing they would try. if that doesn't work, they are talking about putting another blowout preventer on top of the blowout preventer that isn't working and to see if they could get the second one to work to curtail the leak. so they are looking beyond this, and as they do all of this, a relief well is being drilled at the site. the problem with the relief well, that is a tried and tested way of stopping the leak, but it takes two to three months. and we have just seen in the last 17 days what all this o...