the criminal justice system. so it s something that congress needs to address and they need to address it by making it easier for employers to get them in the job. a lot of people just have gigs, go from one gig to the next, it would be nice to have a permanent job for everyone out there. especially for teens there are at home on the couch right now, they need those skills to move up in the labor force. and of course!ge want to continue closely watching the storm in the caribbean, it s been upgraded today to a tropical depression, it is expected to become a tropical storm called bonnie by saturday. tropical storm watches and warnings have already been issued for south florida. you see the trajectory there. the storm is expected to stay south of the oil leak site, but it s already disrupting operations at the leak side. crews aboard dozens of ship at the leak site are preparing to evacuate. the new containment cap on the ruptured well may also have to be reopened.
government to limit how much it has to pay. transocean wants to cap it s liability for the incident at less than $27 million. okay. why don t we bring in our guest now with us from alabama s dolphin island, commandant, admiral thad allen, leading the emergency response to the gulf oil spill. sir, thank you for being on the show. give us an update, the very latest on how the emergency response is going. well, good morning, mika. what s going to happen today, you talked about the top hat solution. that s basically a large inverted funnel that will be put over the leak side and connected with a pipe to the surface for the purpose of evacuating the oil out of there. one of the problems they had with the first entrapment device was the creation of ice crystals where gas micks with water at high pressure and low temperatures. they ll use methanol to try to do away with that to bring oil to the surface.