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The help you need to protect this beautiful coast and to rehabilitate the damaged areas, to revitalize this region and to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. that is a commitment i am making to the people of florida and to people all across this gulf. >> cnn correspondents are fanned out across the gulf to cover the spill and the president's address later tonight. we're counting down to that. meanwhile a new setback in the oil cleanup, driving home the enormous challenges for the president. bp saying it suspended its oil siphoning operation for a while today because of a fir...

Business owners. and kevin costner, remember he testified before congress last week. bp is going to use 32 machines made by costner's company to help with the oil cleanup. and president obama just back in dk after two days in the gulf. we expect he's making some final tweaks to his oval office speech. how did we get into this mess anyway? senator thad cochran, this fire that was on board the ship where the oil is being collected, do you have any inside intel on what happened there? >> no, as a matter of fact, just an hour ago i was meeting with some officials who owned the rig and they were ...

York stock exchange. what are investors focused on today? >> wall street is nervous about the death debt problems in england, but today they could focus on the upbeat report on industrial production in europe. that will give wall street an early boost. we have the opening bell ringing now. and today we are seeing another swing in bp's stock price now down more than 4%. bp's board is going to meet to discuss the dividend today. officials in the u.s. have called on the company to suspend its give debd until it is finished paying for the oil cleanup. we are not expecting a decision right away bec...

On. >> well, i want to say that they're working hard to gather up that oil. and in fact, this weekend, they will be putting a new cap, one of the controlling type caps and they're very, they feel very positive that they're going to be able to capture more of the oil and get it more under control. that's their major emphasis right now. >> mike: well, john's going to be with us the whole show and give us his expert opinion on products like this. they say that hay is for horses. did you know it's also for oil cleanup? coming up we'll speak to people who say it can work and we're going to show you...

To be fixing this plug in 24 hours. he has been responsive from day one. he has put the focus -- has it been covered? >> when you shall slow on the five things that were critical in which i just named? >> there were boomsz put in place. coastguard was there. those needed to be assessed. you can't put sand out there without environmental considerations. >> oh, come on. >> could it have been faster? yes. but there was a need to go forward. so i think the criticism is warranted but you need to give them credit. >> gregg: i'm over my time limit. >> people wanted results and the administration has ...