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He's the guy who assured us that he cared about "the small people down in the gulf." here's what he had to say about the gaffe-happy hayward. >> tony hayward has done a au great job for the company through his almost 30 years. >> a great job. well, let's look at the evidence. tony hayward's the guy who told us not to worry about themyons of gallons of his company's oil spewing into the gulf of mexico because the oil is "tiny relation to the total water volume." then he said he expected the impact of the massive oil slick to be very, very modest. his incense activity continued a couple of weeks...

Skimmers, to go out there and clean up the pockets of the black, thick crude oil that he is talking about. that's what they have been attacking. now, this doesn't apply to the oil that is in the water column, and the tar balls and the tar patties and all those other things we have heard talked about that is underneath the surface of the water. that is still there. and that's something that is still going to be affecting the shovel for quite some time. but at this point as far as the oil on the surface, just the oil on the surface, tony, he says we're looking at possibly weeks, maybe a month or...

Suzanne, before the cap was put on they were collecting about 25,000 barrels of oil off the surface out there. that was every day. and one day last week they only collected about 56 barrels so that shows you how the big amounts of oil on the surface isn't quite there anymore and they now have to hunt for the smaller pieces that are proving to be more elusive. >> david, with the less oil in the water at least what they're finding here what happens to that program that pays fishermen essentially to clean up the oil? >> reporter: well, the vessels of opportunity program is still in full swing. in...

Including a mile-long section of pipe that's in 40 or 50 pieces that now have to be reassembled. they're -- in some ways, playing a lille game of cat and mouse with the weather because this system is out of our way now. we're seeing the remnants here at lake pontchartrain this morning. when is the next one? we go to early august, that's one of the peaks of the hurricane season. so we want to try to get back to business as quickly as possible because we don't know when the next storm is coming. it's delayed the permanent capping of the well by a week, alex. >> on the other end of the spectrum, ...

Hours. but this whole storm threat that did not materialize here, that storm now setting this operation back probably about a week, if you look at all of the days that it took to get everything out of there, everything disconnected and now everything to reconnect and get going again and that happens mot just out at the spill site and that's also happening all along the coast of louisiana, when they thought this was going to be a tropical storm they started bringing in all sorts of protection measures that they had taken. like this boom. they were retrieving boom because the boom wouldn't be ab...