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>> bret: the federal government and b.p. closed the deal on the $20 billion reimbursement fund for the gulf coast and work on the final step to close the broken oil well resumed. senior correspondent rick leventhal is live in homa, louisiana, with details. good evening. >> good evening. tonight we're inside the b.p. and coast guard joint operation center where 17 state and federal agencies are working together to handle and manage the off-shore, nearshore and on shore oil clean-up and recovery efforts. they are not responsible for the relief well which is being drilled but they're keeping a cl...

>> bret: the federal government and b.p. closed the deal on the $20 billion reimbursement fund for the gulf coast and work on the final step to close the broken oil well resumed. senior correspondent rick leventhal is live in homa, louisiana, with details. good evening. >> good evening. tonight we're inside the b.p. and coast guard joint operation center where 17 state and federal agencies are working together to handle and manage the off-shore, nearshore and on shore oil clean-up and recovery efforts. they are not responsible for the relief well which is being drilled but they're keeping a cl...

Flowing, will we pack up and go? the answer is clearly no, we're not gonna do that. off shore, we continue to make progress. we're running the casing in the relief well just now. we'll be cementing that casing later on tonight and into tomorrow. we've got the equipment all hooked up to perform the static kill. and once we get the case run and cemented, we'll cally perform that operation and once we get the go ahead from admiral allen. current forecast is we'll do that activity on tuesday. after that, we still have to finish the relief well. we'll still have to go and intercept this well bore. ...

So they got everybody out of harm's way. better safe than sorry. but they'll be able to get back there pretty quickly beginning tomorrow. the gulf now, a little bit of a ripple wave, running at one foot on the shore. out in the bouies, off shore, two to three footers. that's not a big deal. the impact overall is very minimal. lyn, i don't know if you use mousse in your hair. this morning i didn't have to put any mousse in my hair because the winds are only running three, four miles an hour. >> it's always nice when you don't have to use hair spray, mike. way to be a man and admit that sometime...

Dollars. that business may be forced overseas to the singapores of this world, to the englands of this world, that may well happen. that means a lot of business, jobs, off shore, going away. leaving new york city. >> did you say jobs? >> i did say jobs. >> you have something in common with nancy pelosi. listen to this. >> this is about that four-letter word. i use it all the time. jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. show us the jobs. where are the jobs? we keep sending jobs bills over to the senate, and they will not give a glimmer of hope to america's working families. all of this obviously falling on de...