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15 minutes past the hour. time for a quick check on the other stories. in the next three minutes, in the time it takes to prebt the next report, 500 more gallons of fresh crude oil will have spilled into the gulf of mexico making a massive oil slick. the growing environmental threat has been well-documented but we're beginning to see the economic fallout livelihoods lost. >> this is our cooler and this is everything we've got. >> reporter: on a normal day, how full would this room be? >> it would be full. >> reporter: these processing stations and this machine would be flash freezing thousands...

Place between bp and the mms. >> if a discussion took place it would be with the leaseholder and the mms. >> how frustrating is that? >> so a plant that provides restaurants with oysters on the half shell is operating at half-staff because of the oil leak in the gulf. the layoffs may be just a sign of things to come for the seafood industry along the gulf coast. the story now from cnn's reynolds wolf. >> this is our cooler and this is everything we've got. >> on a normal day, how full would this room be? >> it would be full. >> so would the shucking line. these processing stations and this mac...

Moments ago we were walking around the dock and found this burlap sack. this is one of hundreds we would get that would come off these boats, like the oyster boat you see behind me. this one specifically has a tag on it, from crystal sea seafood. that's the company we highlighted yesterday, one of many in the area that has been pounded by this moratorium on fishing, detrimental to both the businesses and their people. >> this is our cooler, and this is everything we've got. >> now on a normal day how full would this room be? >> it would be full. >> these processing stations and this machine wo...