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For how long. exxon said since the spill, they, quote, honor all valid claims. if you ask me, i think the "arkansas times" should be considered for a pulitzer for their excellent and indispensable coverage of the mayflower oil spill since it first happened in march and continuing now. this was their cover story earlier this month titled "the forgotten." a 4,000 word reported piece about some of the victims of the exxon spill, specifically about people who didn't live in one of the couple of dozen homes that got evacuated after the pipeline erupted but who still live right in the area around wh...

If you ask me, i think the "arkansas times" should be considered for a pulitzer for their excellent and indispensable coverage of the mayflower oil spill since it first happened in march and continuing now. this was their cover story earlier this month titled "the forgotten." a 4,000 word reported piece about some of the victims of the exxon spill, specifically about people who didn't live in one of the couple of dozen homes that got evacuated after the pipeline erupted but who still live right in the area around where the spill happened. they interviewed a woman whose house is about 300 yards...

Neighborhood now a ghost town. >> local residents and state officials raised heck about exxon forcing these residents back into a neighborhood that apparently nobody there deemed safe. exxon did reverse course. they said, okay, they no longer plan to cut off housing aid for those residents as of this weekend. they said they will continue to pay up though it's not yet clear for how long. exxon said since the spill, they, quote, honor all valid claims. if you ask me, i think the "arkansas times" should be considered for a pulitzer for their excellent and indispensable coverage of the mayflower o...

Waiting tanker. joining me now is oil expert with texas a&m university, corpus christi, and a good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's see the timing of all this. as you know, wes, we've had thousands and thousands and thousands of gallons spilling into the gulf over these last nearly three weeks now. why did we see this box, 110-ton box, just be lowered to the ocean floor now? >> probably because there wasn't one already made, and there's probably going to be a lot of discussion about that. a similar tool was used during the exxon spill in 1979 for the first time and it was called the s...