oh, that s gross. it look like i m in a hersh hershey s bar right now. okay. rub through there? yeah. mike: gosh i hope this works or else it will be a really no oily residue. mike: okay. let me go out here to the audience and see if anyone will shake my hand. [ laughter ] you feel any oil? i feel none. mike: none. [ laughter ] brave man! [ applause ] so this is a simple type of product that is biodegradable. fully organic. once you can scoop up the oil, the compound out of the oil, you can squeeze the product, recycle 70% of the oil and the compound can be reused ten times to pick up more oil. mike: wow! we re going to look at another product here. this is some product that is made from beeswax.
from america s news headquarters i am mary ann rafferty. president obama making his fout trip to the gulf coast on monday. the oil spill the address to the nation on tuesday night. they are deploying sensors to determine how much oil is gushing in the gulf. that had allen saying he will get an answer shortly from bp about how it plans to speed up the capture of that oil. they want to set up a multi billion dollar escrow account for damage claims. the death toll after friday s flash flooding in arkansas reaching 19. raging waters tearing through a campground. 6 of the victims were recovered today. om say they only had he could to escape. the search for possible victims in temperatures approaching 97
americans were turned loose. thanks to all of you. you know, mike, one of the things i appreciate is all of you guys are not waiting to be told what you can do. you re down in the gulf saying, as larry the cable guy would say, let s get er done! thank you very much for being here. [ applause ] all right, coming up. i m going to be the guinea pig again and soak my test in oil to test if one man s idea can help clean up the gulf. can help clean up the gulf. you will see and hey!! [ male announcer ] playtime will never be the same again, thanks to new pampers cruisers with dry max. hey!! [ female announcer ] they re not just 20% thinner. they re also 2 times drier. it s next generation dryness. so playtime never en. and it s now onef the most awarded diapers. thanks, mom, for choosing pamps cruisers with dry max. only from pampers.
gulf yet? we have got people on the shores down there talking to people we met with b.p. yesterday. they are putting it in testing to see if it s used. mike: i say we just tested it. tell them it s okay. use it. get it down there. notice how quickly it put the oil up. doesn t have to sit there for a long time. mike: there was talk at one point, phil, people were sending hair in, stuffing it in pantyhose and the e.p.a. said wait, we haven t tested that. right. what happened was i got some press back in 2000. and the salons around the country heard, saw it on tv. i d come home every day and have boxes of hair from anchorage alaska and i live in north alabama. a non-profit organization in california called matter of trust, started by a woman who picked up and we let her have the hair so they could use that to clean up the oil spills. i was out there in 2007.
mike: this is not going to hurt the wildlife. it will take the toxic stuff out of the water and out of the oil. right. it makes the environment safe on the open water and the bird comes in and it s been sitting there a little while, so, okay, maybe he doesn t want to be there anymore, not a good place. he flies away. that is the idea. it hasn t been on there very long. but have another feather here. just a little while. mike: we don t have much little while to do so better her in there. make it quick. mike: john, tell me as you are watching this, one feather got soaked with oil. this doesn t look hardly touched at all. impressive. mike: that is impressive. you can save so many animals, so many creatures in the environment. mike: let me see the feather here, because a lot of people may not have seen it. you can see look at the