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Containment capacity. we through with a incident commander, nathan nap, he's a little hard to hear over the site. >> does it tear you up to see what's happening? >> it's -- it does in a personal sense, in a professional sense i'm encouraged with the effort we're giving despite what has been said. we have the largest response to an oil release ever going on right now. >> reporter: the commander is helping oversee 13,000 people in louisiana alone helping to battle and clean up the spill. >> rick, what about the dispersant chemicals. did they resume dropping that today? >> the dispersant planes t...

Miles of the source, they also can't drop disperse ant with in two miles of any vessels and there are issues with the weather, as well and when there is bad weather they cannot necessarily fly the dispersant planes or spotter planes to look at where the worst patches of oil are out there, at sea and right now there is really bad weather out there and we couldn't go to all the areas we hoped to see this morning, as the dispersant plane one of which is behind me are not going up and flying now, either, because the weather is too challenging for these pilots. but, it is important to point out, th...