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I didn't realize this until yesterday. but the moratorium claims will fall under my jurisdiction. >> that's a huge development. we didn't know that before. >> i didn't either. i just learned yesterday that the administration and bp have agreed that the moratorium claims will fall under my jurisdiction. >> i find this stunning. i had no idea -- clearly he didn't know about this. just to be clear. when he says the moratorium claims, that means the claims not by the oil rig workers themselves who have lost jobs, but the people who support them, they can put in for claims in this $20 billion fund?...

I just learned yesterday that the administration and bp have agreed that the moratorium claims will fall under my jurisdiction. >> i find this stunning. i had no idea -- clearly he didn't know about this. just to be clear. when he says the moratorium claims, that means the claims not by the oil rig workers themselves who have lost jobs, but the people who support them, they can put in for claims in this $20 billion fund? >> exactly. when i first heard it, somebody should tell the doctor what patients he's going to be operating on. but, yeah, this is the people who support the rig workers. the ...

>> exactly. when i first heard it, somebody should tell the doctor what patients he's going to be operating on. but, yeah, this is the people who support the rig workers. the rig workers are covered under that $100 million. >> although rig workers will say, that's not enough. >> right. and that's probably going to have to get increased. for every one man on the rig, you have 10 to 15 other supporting jobs that load the supplies, that run the boat that bring the food out to them. all these things, bring the supplies, clean the boat. there are many more supporting jobs than there are rig workers...

Tell a doctor what pay tisht patients he will be operating on. this is something that bp did not agree to early on. they took responsibility for the oil spill itself, but the moratorium was something imposed by the federal government. those workers were falling under a different jurisdiction for a while. this is not going to cure all their problems, but it at least gives them somewhere to go to try to get back some of the money they are losing. >> reynold just mentioned the latest on tropical storm alex. i'm assuming the folks there are getting ready for this? >> reporter: yeah. a lot of the e...

Them both geographically and otherwise so we want to make sure that our neighbors to the south are protected. as far as the city of tallahassee is concerned, we're an electric generated city and we do have a power plant that's close to the coast. and if this oil spill should come up this canal that we're operating on, then we may have a little problem there. we're anticipating that and we're trying to adjust to that. and the city of tallahassee, the other thing that we're concerned about is the economic impact. if those individuals on the coast are going to be looking for jobs and opportunitie...