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Many say this could be obama's katrina. coast guarded th ed tha thad al this head on. >> this is no katrina. one were levees and this is a wellhead on the ocean floor. after that, no comparison. >> you're satisfied with the federal response from minute one to where we are now? >> not only am i satisfied i'm accountable. we have been there saving people's lives. >> reporter: environmentalists in general agree. >> the immediate response to stop the leaks were handled well. i think the president focussed his top brass attention on it a bit late, though. >> reporter: the coast guard was on scene s...

Aggressively. and of course, jon, we all have to reporter, the first response was search and rescue. eleven rig workers, missing, presumed dead, and to put out the fire on that exploratory deep sea rig. all those things took a couple, three days, then there was the initial estimate of how much oil was leaking, that turned out to be inaccurate, now the administration is scrambling to suggest in every visual way possible it's on the case, on the job, even as that oil gets ever closer to the gulf coast states. jon: and of course, everyone there is very much aware, major, of the response to hurric...

Step up those efforts. officials here think they think they can step it up to capture between 500 and 1,000 barrels of oil at a time, so that's one effort they'll try to undertake to step up the efforts to try to prevent it from getting to the louisiana shoreline. in the meantime we're getting new inside accounts of what happened on board that rig relayed to us from rig workers who were there. they experienced the violent and chaos of this blast firsthand. many of them still cannot speak publicly about it, either because they're traumatized or trying to protect themselves legally. so, they're ...

Disposal, including potentially the department of defense to address the incident. >> shepard: an incident of national significance as the president technically put it today. team fox coverage now rick reichmuth is track the weather conditions from the extreme weather center. first get to senior white house correspondent major garrett live on the north lawn today. sum up with the government is doing thus far. >> shepard, this is, of course, a human tragedy, 11 rig workers missing, presumed dead. it's a mounting environmental catastrophe. and now it's a federal response issue. the white house a...

And we are going to start with war games in the persian gulf right on iraq's doorstep and the u.s. is just a spectator. actually, these are games for iran, just iran. they're showing off some new military hardware in the oil lane. in particular, something being described as a super fast speed boat armed to the teeth. a search in the gulf of mexico. here are new i-report pictures of what we're talking about. an oil rig exploded and it's still on fire. 11 people are missing. the coast guard is out there in full force. more than 100 rig workers survived and they just arrived back onshore just a...