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They let you come back out here. >> that's what i say. >> reporter: stephen peterson works with his dad lawrence, oystering in these waters for 30 years. stephen only works weekends. it's extra money, but for his dad, this is all he knows. what about you? if you're not out on the water, are you going to be able to make? >> i doubt it. >> reporter: what would you do? >> i don't know. there's nothing here to do. >> reporter: many of these oystermen have already gotten $5,000 checks from bp. a monthly advance on any oil or any losses. some locals were out on the water looking for any signs of oil...

Get clean. >> tell us about your website. i know that people can go directly to your website to get information about the shrimp that you're catching and selling. >> can you get on the delta.com, portofdelta.com and culp the website and we've got about 20 boat on the website that you can contact. got a little article on us, tells about our boat and about our livelihood. and then you can also get on the same website. you'll pick up some -- if you want to buy some frozen shrimp or processed, they on there, too. >> mr. dupre, we wish you the very best to you and your family. >> could i say one mo...

Gulf. president obama is expected to discuss the disaster with the british prime minister david cameron during a phone call this morning at 11:00 eastern. according to bp, almost 42,000 claims have been submitted. about half those claims have been settled totaling more than $53 million. bp could decide to suspend dividends to shareholders by july 27th. the company hopes to use a secondary containment cap as early as monday. potentially capturing an additional 5,000 to 10,000 barrels a day. well, rising temperatures are now complicating the cleanup efforts. heat-related illnesses are now the ma...

It is day 54 at the gulf oil disaster and bp still hasn't figured out a way to cap this well. president obama is waiting to call british prime minister david cameron at 9:00 a.m. to talk about that. some brits are concerned that the president's recent comments are affecting bp stock prices. very important there. parish president billy nungesser is criticizing british prime minister for following comments that he made on the oil disaster in the gulf. now, according to bp, almost 42,000 claims have been submitted, and half of them have been settled. more than 53 million dollar, the total. bp cou...

And their boycotting bp. i don't see why they want to boycott bp. they have to have money to spend money. they are trying to help the industry, and pray to god that the federal government don't take over the cleanup, because bp's more equipped to meet, goes a lot better than the federal government can clean it up. >> mr. dupre, thank you for your point of view. a unique one coming from a shrimper. we really appreciate it. thank you, mr. dupre. >> okay, thank you. witnesses describe the horrifying flash floods in arkansas. >> my 16-year-old son was camping about 100 yards from us. he was scre...