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Jon: what about that plan to use chemical disper sants on the oil slick? how's that going? >> reporter: the weather was really bad all weekend long, high winds not only laying out boom lines, a lot of them were breached, 80% according to alabama's governor, but the winds were too bad. the planes are loaded, they're ready to fly, and we do expect they will begin flying over the oil slick today. they can cover 250 acres per drop. bp's also conducting its second test today of actually pouring those chemicals 5,000 feet down into a tube all the way at the head of the leak trying to disperse it tha...

This is an active oil flow. we're also going to be covering the battle over immigration before we wrap up this hour and before i send it back to peter alexander in our studios in new york, peter, as we said on "today" on nbc this morning, when is louisiana going to catch a break and how much can one state be expected to take? this is a heartbreaking situation. i think tonight is going to be our 26th broadcast of "nightly news" since katrina. we made, you did, i did, a lot of us did, a huge commitment to this region. this is absolutely heartbreaking. i'd do anything not to be here covering this...

It will come to shore, it's only a matter of time. there is a little bit of good news, by the way, coming out of this. that disperse santa they've been shooting down at 5,000 feet, the coast guard telling us they have had some significant impact on this oil flow. again, they're targeting the oil that's coming out of the well. as they target this, it breaks up the oil and allows it to become small enough so that it can be naturally degraded by bacteria. again, the coast guard's quote, significant impact on this. i don't know how many gallons, but that is good news as we continue watching the we...

That state, with a total economic impact of more than a billion dollars. meanwhile, the worries about the gulf disaster now forcing many store owners in that region to stock up before supplies run low. >> there are probably three times busier than we are and most of the customers are worried about the gulf shrimp, they want to have that. we have a unique flavor and people are really concerned about that, so they're stocking up, putting it in their freezer so they'll have gulf shrimp. uma: many stores are looking to suppliers from the east coast and to southeast florida. bill: uma, executives a...

Have died of flooding in the united states and the abortive attempt at a car bombing in times square in new york. two or major stories we'll be covering tonight on "nbc nightly news." first and for now, here we are in a place, part of the mississippi river delta, one of the harbors lining this region that is part of the epicenter of the vast fisheries industry here. that's all idle. there's nothing to bring in. in one fell swoop after this spill and the florida governor says call it like it is, it's an oil flow, unabated, unaffected. if anything, it's gone up over the past few days. their abil...