disaster out in the gulf, this ecological disaster. he says it is really good for the local economy and all the people who he was able to rehire after having to lay them off with the bad economy. jenna. jenna: we ll take the silver linings where we can find them especially in this recession, dan. why did bp go all the way up to seattle to get these boats and build these boom, it s not close to louisiana. reporter: there is a robust industry here. they make boats and booms. we interviewed a guy who first made containment boom at the exxon valdez spill 21 years ago. he s now a tent and awning company. it s all hands on deck. anyone who can make boom is now making it these days. tacoma tent and awning company has been asked to make boom. he hired workers, and a ship. there is a big need in the gulf for the boom and it s not going
collected and one of the most common questions we get from viewers is, where is all this stuff going. we finally got access and permission to get on one of the landfills that is accepting some of this waste. it about 15 miles west of new orleans in an industrial area and that is kind of a mixed landfill that takes in everyday garbage and industrial waste, as well. so far for the past month and a half they collected more than 2,000 tons of that oily boom we have seen. at the site they separate that oil and the water and that oil is eventually recycled. they consider that safe, as well. the containment boom or the boom we ve seen so far, that is deposited in a regular landfill and eventually by the end of the day, they cover that with a foot of clay and the director, the technical director there says most of the stuff and all the stuff they get there is not dangerous. it is not hazardous material. the oil that was actually
there is still oil there. we have to leave our homes. they worry about the impact on the revived moratorium on deepwater offshore drill willing have at a local economy. in a public hear iing today, coast guard investigating the b.p. spill said he was moved by testimony on the issue. at a news conference, william riley said, i come to this experience with a much greater sense of the economic dislocation being experienced here than i had three days ago ago. clean-up crews and oil containment boom have become a common site on many gulf coach beaches these days. they predict on many beaches they will still be here a year or more from now even after the well is finallip capped. bret? jonathan serrie live in grand isle. thank you. florida governor charlie crist has the lead in the latest poll for the florida senate race. the survey has crist leading
there is still oil there. we have to leave our homes. they worry about the impact on the revived moratorium on deepwater offshore drill willing have at a local economy. in a public hear iing today, coast guard investigating the b.p. spill said he was moved by testimony on the issue. at a news conference, william riley said, i come to this experience with a much greater sense of the economic dislocation being experienced here than i had three days ago ago. clean-up crews and oil containment boom have become a common site on many gulf coach beaches these days. they predict on many beaches they will still be here a year or more from now even after the well is finallip capped. bret? jonathan serrie live in grand isle. thank you. florida governor charlie crist has the lead in the latest poll for the florida senate race. the survey has crist leading
the company overseeing the oil spill response says it will be three more weeks before they can hook up another ship to collect the oil. retired coast guard admiral says the helix producer vessel, they call it is partially hooked up now but he says crews need calmer weather and calmer seas before they can finish the job. we re told the helix producer can collect more than a million gallons a day. that would more than double the amount that crews are now able to capture. at least what we re led to believe. but it s not clear how much more oil would still be leaking from that blown out well at the bottom of the gulf. phil keating on the scene in grand isle, louisiana, tonight much how much is the weather still affecting the skimming operations there? shep, the skimming operations are not happening. zero barrels of oil skimmed from the surface of the gulf of mexico today. yesterday, similarly bad weather. 218 barrels all day were successfully skimmed and removed from the surface. today