they are nature s little housekeepers. they eat it as a food source, degrade it. they take it apart molecule by momolecule. reporter: this is one of several companies pitching a type of oil-eating bacteria to help cleanup the gulf. the prod subject is make from naturally occurring microbes that are concentrated, fermented and sprayed on the oil. it s commonly used to cleanup toxic industrial accidents, jet fuel spills and brown fields. oil-eating bacteria was used to help cleanup the alaska shoreline from the exxon valdez spill in 1989. we are speeding up nature. if we leave it for nature to do it could take 500 years or more. reporter: this oil-eating bacteria as often been used over the past 20 years with a whole lot of success over shore lines but it s never been tried in the open water.
the guy who brought them in and caught them gets paid. typically on one day in the month of june the owner of this dock will receive and purchase 200,000 pounds of shrimp a day. this year, the month of june, 13,000 a day. that is 6 percent of normal. jenna: unbelievable. hopefully mother nature will to me, it s ao they gave me a death penalty. that s what they did to they. to me. i m 51 years old. i ve never seen this. reporter: a quick reminder as to how dangerous it is in the gulf oil spill, for all the crewmen and boats out there, coast guard had to rescue a man overboard last night who had been floating out in the gulf, those oily waters, for several hours, but he s been taken to a hospital, treated and he should be at home recovering from severe exhaustion. jenna: out of all that news,
recommended those black panthers be prosecuted for what happened that day at the polls place. today he relayed a situation in which a superior attorney came to them, he and christopher coat, the man who worked with him, another attorney and told him these charges should be dismissed, they were told superior hasn t read the memos. here s what he said the reaction to the hearing. coats was so outraged he said that s bull how dare you, that s bull , and coats through the memo at him and said you can t do that. reporter: we re told that that wasn t the only memo throwing episode, that there was profanity, yelling, there were all nighters fighting over this problem. jenna: there seems to be a broader picture here as well. he says the problems within the department of justice go far beyond this very black panther case. what does he mean by that? reporter: he says that