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Keeping you informed. every morning, over 50 spotter planes and helicopters take off and search for the oil. we use satellite images, infrared and thermal photography to map and target the oil. then, the boats go to work. almost 6,000 vessels. these are thousands of local shrimp and fishing boats organized into task forces and strike teams. plus, specialized skimmers from around the world. we've skimmed over 27 million gallons of oil/water mixture and removed millions more with other methods. we've set out more than 8 million feet of boom to protect the shoreline. i grew up on the gulf coast a...

Brought on by this bp spill, as well as the cap. a lot of people are not putting a lot of stock into what bp is saying. they're holding out hope that this might work. but at the same time, there's still a lot of oil out there that has the potential to come back on shore. dealing with the tourism issue, ed schrader. ed, give me an idea. where is tourism at along these beaches here? >> hi, michelle. this is our most important point -- month of the year. and we're a little bit below what we normally would expect for july. we're probably 25, maybe 30% less than what we had last year. we might reco...

Us live. he wants you to adopt a gulf coast fisherman. and enrique iglesias, a moment a woman will never forget. ♪ there's oil out there we've got to capture. my job is to hunt it down. i'm fred lemond, and i'm in charge of bp's efforts to remove oil from these waters. bp has taken full responsibility for the cleanup and that includes

About 24 hours into a 48-hour window with bp testing the pressure on the cap and hoping it can contain the oil until the relief wells are complete. president obama said even if this isn't the ultimate fix, it is very good news. >> even if a shut-in is not possible, this new cap and the additional equipment being placed in the gulf will be able to contain up to 80,000 barrels a day. which should law us to capture nearly all of the oil until the well is killed. >> we're live in venice, louisiana. that was at about 10:00 eastern time this morning. so now five hours later, how are those tests goin...

Have to defend against. >> how will you try to defend against the oil that's already out there coming to shore and getting those people back here to these beaches? is. >> right. just as we have for months, the inland waterways, we have a wonderful system of buoys and skimmer ships in shore to try to take out if it comes into our passes, into our bays. out here on the shore, that's the job of bp and the federal government, and we're counting on them to launch everything they got to keep this oil off our shores. >> ed schrader, thank you very much. chris, a lot of unanswered questions yet as we ...