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Operation in the world. getting started may be the toughest part. onboard the cutter elm cnn's rob marciano shows us just how difficult it is. >> reporter: once the barge was in place, we had to latch the two vessels together. >> you try to tighten up this latch here. >> give it some slack. >> you need this as tight as possible so you feel the tug pulling against me. >> we're just doing that for 20 seconds. i'm exhausted, ralph. we haven't even started. >> reporter: this whole process has taken hours. we're almost into the afternoon and we haven't skimmed a thing or even deployed any sort of s...

Bart might argue. >> he's going to say she's a public figure and they ought to prove maliciousness finding. >> she's a public figure because she's a government employee? not at the time of the videotaping but currently a public employee that make as public figure? that would be his argument? >> yes, i would say that. >> no, no. no, no. >> avery, go ahead. >> she became a public figure after an dry brightbard put up his. >> she's no more a public figure than ralph crampton driving a bus. it's not exactly defamation. it's called false light. there is something there. if she can establish that, i...

meantime let's turn to weather. bonnie was with knauss is now just a tropical depression and let's check in with our meteorologist reynolds wolf and jacqui jeras. they've been keeping close tabs on the weather. reynolds is in new orleans and jacqui is in our news room. are we still calling it bonnie? >> yes, until it's a remnant low. it is a tropical depression and it has threats with it. it's been weakening very significantly and that's been good news because of the impact on the oil spill. of course, all the vessels have moved on out, and that's rather unfortunate but the seas are ...