hit. now, they re back in fighting mode. each community trying to do what they can to attract those tourists back. michelle, we got reports yesterday that a lot of people along the gulf coast angered by the slow response to some of these payment of these bp claims. are you hearing that? yeah, we have heard a few. i haven t spoken to a lot of people. most of the people that i ve spoken to said that they ve been very quickly to response, bp has. initially to get their checks. that was several owners of hotels around here, some of the condominium rentals. but there are a group of people that basically rely on cash income that may not be getting those checks because they don t have the paperwork able to prove it as quickly as some of the other some of the other businesses around here. all right. nbc s michelle franden live in pensacola, florida. thank you very much. thank you so much for getting up for us, michelle. we greatly appreciate it. getting up early to do the show. in
if they were warning to you stay out of the water we would not have gone in. reporter: you wouldn t have gone in. right. reporter: now, you take a look, don, again at the beach, it s very, very empty here, but last night, our producer, eric field goal el, was actually in town. he went to some of the restaurants and said there was a two-hour wait to get in some of those restaurants, so, fortunately, for at least the restaurateurs here, if the people may not be coming down to the water, there still are quite a few of them that are in town and patronizing those establishments, so that s at least a help. i used to spend a lot of time there. what i wonder is, we used to pay premium prices for hotel rooms and those sorts of things. any deals to be had because of the situation? reporter: you know, i was talking to somebody just a little bit ago who was telling me that they re still, for condominium rentals, daily rentals are getting $400 and