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the captain schettino was in court today where a judge ordered him held under arrest. the captain's story, people say, is not holding up well. he claims he and his crew were the last to abandon ship, and the navigationsistent didn't show the rocks. those don't stand up to the fact we already know. for instance, passengers and crew were scrambling down the side of the ship, and this is the infrared cameras where you see them, that trail is people scrambling down the side of the ship in the middle of the night, trying to board life boats. captain schettino, at this point, he was safely...

Ann thompson in venice, louisiana, this morning. we see the wind is blowing a bit again, ann. i don't know if it is hurricane-force, but how do you expect this to affect the cleanup efforts? >> reporter: savannah, we saw work boats go out this morning, but with a forecast of a 50% chance for thunderstorms today and winds expected to go back to where they were yesterday, gusts of 30 miles per hour, raising the seas by seven feet, nobody expects a lot of work to get done today. yesterday they had to pull in all the swimmer boats and bring in the work from the marshes along the coast. out at the ...

But safely onshore. let's get to reynolds first. reynolds, i talked to a commander from the coast guard last hour. sounds like they're going ahead with this planned burn. >> it does appear that that is what's going to happen. i'd like to share with you and the rest of america about how the process works, what exactly is going to take place. tony, what they're doing to do, they're going to take about 500 feet of this fireproof fire or boom. they will use a team of work boats and almost mike a semi circle shape and they will skim the water and try and take away some of the heavier crude. so you ...

Guys are trained on evacuating the rigs and they got onto work boats and the coast guard was able to rescue those folks without anybody in the water. >> shepard: do we know how this went down? >> not sure yet. the coast guard is working with the mineral management service and platform others and other partners to find out how this happened. >> shepard: you know, jonathan hunt was reporting there's a concern this rig would collapse. what would that do? >> these are -- it's -- they're dynamic positions rigs, so it's not tethered to the ocean floor. it floats. they use gps to stay over the drilli...

Travel. travel all over the planet, reaching out to find new partners that can make things better. if you go far enough down this interstate, you can see how it's working. bayou la batre is about as far south as you can go in alabama without getting your feet wet. here in the horizon shipbuilding yard they have discovered the secret to building up is not stopping there but going offshore to find new markets and new customers. they build state of the art work boats for pushing barges, servicing oil rigs, that sort of thing. and horizon is relying much more on sales to places like nigeria, mexic...