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That's me out in the water in waders. boom is about two or three feet. and there's a curtain that goes down 18 inches into the water. i was able to lift them up and move them. if a tropical storm comes through, those are doing the lord's work protecting oyster beds and shrimp beds. those will blow away in a heartbeat. can f they can damaged, can you replace them. when we come back, one-on-one with governor bill richardson. if democrats in danger of losing the west because of washington's failure to deal with issues like immigration. we'll be back.

The main areas there where the shrimpers get their shrimp and the oysters are coming from out there in the large gulf coast, so i guess how close is this oil getting to those prime areas? >> well, night before last it hit those prime areas. the kind of toe of the boot of louisiana, that's where the oil is hitting and started hitting yesterday or yesterday morning, so it already started that area. that is the largest producer of all. but mobile bayest tua estuary ie producer, plus we land so much shrimp in alabama and so many oysters in alabama, and it's all -- with the south winds heading nort...

Not a complete disaster and total wipeout of it just yet, but it keeps getting worse, how long will it take to recover from something like that under -- i don't want to say a worst case scenario but suppose it gets pretty bad and you say we don't have the sha rirch, how long to recover? >> under a worst case scenario and it's hard for me to say this out loud, oyster beds we're looking at potentially 20 years, maybe longer. shrimp beds and grasses, it just depends on how badly we decimate them. there are ways to protect our grasses and i assure you are everyone on our coast, everyone on louisia...

On their plate and not understanding where it comes from. what is the potential impact? what is it doing to that shrimp? what is it doing -- does that stuff just going to be no good anymore? i read an article people said, don't worry, you're not going to have oil on your shrimp. >> you're not going to have shrimp. not going to have it. the kind of biggest deal right now for us is when you cover the grass beds, that's where the shrimp are born. that's where they come and grow and live. we have had a cold winter so they're just now starting to come out. when the grasses are covered and buried, t...