i just learned yesterday that the administration and bp have agreed that the moratorium claims will fall under my jurisdiction. i find this stunning. i had no idea clearly he didn t know about this. just to be clear. when he says the moratorium claims, that means the claims not by the oil rig workers themselves who have lost jobs, but the people who support them, they can put in for claims in this $20 billion fund? exactly. when i first heard it, somebody should tell the doctor what patients he s going to be operating on. but, yeah, this is the people who support the rig workers. the rig workers are covered under that $100 million. although rig workers will say, that s not enough. right. and that s probably going to have to get increased. for every one man on the rig, you have 10 to 15 other supporting jobs that load the supplies, that run the boat that bring the food out to them. bring the supplies, clean the boat. there are many more supporting
exactly. when i first heard it, somebody should tell the doctor what patients he s going to be operating on. but, yeah, this is the people who support the rig workers. the rig workers are covered under that $100 million. although rig workers will say, that s not enough. right. and that s probably going to have to get increased. for every one man on the rig, you have 10 to 15 other supporting jobs that load the supplies, that run the boat that bring the food out to them. all these things, bring the supplies, clean the boat. there are many more supporting jobs than there are rig workers. these guys were in limbo for a long time. now what ken feinberg is saying, they re going to be covered under that $20 billion. it doesn t solve all their problems, but it at least gives them some place to go now to start filing those claims. i find that surprising. i didn t know that. thanks very much. our investigation into bp s relationship with the u.s. agency that was intended to regulate i
tell a doctor what pay tisht patients he will be operating on. this is something that bp did not agree to early on. they took responsibility for the oil spill itself, but the moratorium was something imposed by the federal government. those workers were falling under a different jurisdiction for a while. this is not going to cure all their problems, but it at least gives them somewhere to go to try to get back some of the money they are losing. reynold just mentioned the latest on tropical storm alex. i m assuming the folks there are getting ready for this? reporter: yeah. a lot of the emergency management officials, the parishes, they are concerned about the storm surge pushing a lot of the oil onshore. if the waves to react in the way, one of the parishes here
them both geographically and otherwise so we want to make sure that our neighbors to the south are protected. as far as the city of tallahassee is concerned, we re an electric generated city and we do have a power plant that s close to the coast. and if this oil spill should come up this canal that we re operating on, then we may have a little problem there. we re anticipating that and we re trying to adjust to that. and the city of tallahassee, the other thing that we re concerned about is the economic impact. if those individuals on the coast are going to be looking for jobs and opportunities and possibly to come live in the city of tallahassee if it gets that bad, at least, so that is a concern and i have told my city commission and our city manager to be aware of that and that we need to have some sort of contingency plans to address