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Nashville but they're in the rescue portion of this disaster. we're still plucking people out of homes and roadways and places where they've gotten into trouble. this is an ongoing disaster, and it's not over yet. jon: what a mess. our thoughts and prayers are with you, jerry heidt, from the tennessee emergency management agency, thank you. >> thanks. jane: we're monitoring the cleanup of the oil push good -- gusher in the gulf of mexico, this coming in from governor charlie crist, he's extending the state of emergency, 13 more counties in this state due to this oil situation, a total of 19 co...

Boom. that's 2500 feet of 42-inch boom that you see up on that rielle. right now a support vessel is being used to unfurl this boom. it's being pulled out into the water, coralling what would be oil if we were in an oil situation. crews can do a couple of things. they can burn it, skim it or move it. just to give you an idea of how much the oil skimming operation will be down in the gulf, the cost of operating this boat you see here behind me is $9,700 a day. that's not including the price of fuel, which can reach up to $3,000 a day. in cape may, new jersey, laura ingle, fox news. >> eric boli...

About. >> reporter: exactly. coming from the pentagon, jon, essentially saying that the u.s. navy will send its ships or its aircraft carriers through the straits of hormuz, when it wants, as much as it wants and for whatever reason it wants and continue to do despite the threat from the iranian navy. the iranian naval chief was full of bravado. we're not in the business of warning americans more than once. in the past few days the iranians are making a lot of threats about closing the straits of hormuz which would obviously change the whole dime nam mick of the oil situation, the economic sit...

Even when they are on both sides. tell me, john, when you look at the oil situation, i know have you talked about much more aggressive production that we immediate to do at home, at the same time, congress this week is already prepared to take up some measures to try to get deficit reduction by getting rid of some of the oil industries current subsidies. should the oil companies be willing to give up some of these subsidies even as we are trying to boost domestic production for reasons you suggest n. >> it would change the economics of how they do their business. and that could have a negative...

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