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About military operations on a given day, reports about roadside bomb attacks, reports about when u.s. troops have encountered enemy forces. everything single thing that the u.s. military has encountered there, they file a field report, and that's essentially the large measure of what you are looking at here. so it's what happened at a particular day at a particular point in time. the comprehensiveness, perhaps, comes later in the bigger picture, the big strategy, the overall assessments that are made about the war by top commanders, but very valid about what has happened to a particular unit ...

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Any of them heading out today? >> reporter: there are a few out there, but not many. you can see at the harbor here at the venice marina, that you would see any of them on a given day would be out harvesting shrimp, they're here because of the oil and they can't go out and collect the oil that's causing them problems this summer. it's a situation that's continuing here along the gulf coast, but the good news is, 50 miles out, at the drill site, the relief wells are still unscheduled, in fact they're ahead of schedule, they were not interrupted at all because of hurricane alex. alex? >> what ab...

Vibrant opinion. you know, when you look at our election coverage, for example, that was -- we needed a bigger set to cram in all of those different points of view that were expressed in a very lively way every night. and we've got some of the best analysts on earth contributing every day and every night on cnn. what we don't do is stack the partisan deck. stack the deck to push one point of view or another. our network, unlike our cable news competitors, our network is not here to push a right wing or a left wing point of view. so this is a show in which you're going to get the full range of ...

This is a devastating to the wildlife, initially to the bird, the marine birds especially. >> right. >> but down the road, ecologically, it's a potential for incredible devastation to the esuary system in louisiana, h this is the nursery ground for most of the fish species in the gulf, commercial, shrimp, crab, oysters, that will be impacted as well. then we have the marine mammal issue. we know in this slick, which is as you pointed out is huge. we have a population, one of the largest whales in the planet. and dolphin populations. the marine mammals in particular breathe the air water interf...