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To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigatio...

Today. good to see you, sir, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: what did you tell them? >> well, my job was to talk about the economic impact of the spill and there are two stories of economic impact. one is the impact of the spill itself, very acute if you look at the fishing industry, if you look at the tourism industry. they're going to feel it directly. another story, another impact, is the impact of the moratorium. the fact is the economic impact of the moratorium is probably going to dwarf the actual impact of the spill itself. >> shepard: of course when president bush had a...

It for us. jamie: we know that he is, thanks, eric. there is news from bp today that the gulf oil spill has now cost the oil giant more than $3 billion. that doesn't even include the 20 billion-dollar compensation account the white house had bp set up. gym evening else has been following the story and the distribution of cash. the spill has already cost a lot obviously. it it just the beginning? do they know what it will cost ultimately? >> reporter: no it's hard to tell. you've got that more than $3 billion that's been spent already trying tow contain the oil drilling, relief wells, paying cl...

Once again, take a live look at the leak from b.p.'s underwater camera on the gulf floor. it's still flowing. steve harrigan, monitoring the latest live on grand isle in louisiana. steve, are you seeing any progress made from where you are? >> the 48-hour deadline given by the coast guard ends tonight. not sure what happens if they don't meet it. they ordered them to speed it up, and right now b.p. is collecting 15,000 barrels of oil a day from the fractured well. as much as 40,000 barrels is spreading out from it. as far as the spill itself, residents of alabama woke up this morning, some of ...

That in the bible too. not as many, and we don't take it seriously. that's the difference. we blow off our religions. if we took the bible seriously, we would look over our fence sunday morning seeing our neighbor mowing his lawn and think, huh, working on sunday, i really should kill him. that doesn't happen. but there are entire schools where the kids read just one book. they're memorizing the koran, that's all they do. you know, that's not what we do in this curve the. >> i want to talk a little bit about what's happening on the gulf coast. how do you think the response has been? do you thi...