now sit idle. unpredictable for the future of the shrimp business and shrimp industry, we need some sort of financing income reporter: the coast guard performs safety check. safety for the boats but what about the crew? we ve got to do it and take risks on that. reporter: you need the money so you start doing it? yes, sir. reporter: it is a desperation like that that has officials worried because a lot of fishermen talk pretty tough. behind me, we saw three or four boats leave a few minutes ago to head out to sea to start laying more of that. they laid 1 million feet of it and they have 1 million left they can put out there, not to mention the skimming efforts underway as the slick continues to grow. dolphin island, they are setting up snar nets to snare tar balls
eyes are on containing the leak and launching a massive cleanup operation but what are the long-term implications? is this the environmental disaster that could change our country s energy policy for good? we re joined by our good friend who is the author of game over and an expert on oil. i was out talking to people all week and a number of times people said to me, what s the cost of this disaster? i said we can add up the cost of cleaning up the oil but we are going to lose species of birds, some sea mammals, the shrimp industry decimated. i don t know what the long-term cost is. i don t think anybody does now, ali. we don t really know at this point whether they could even cap the thing and, you know, then, heaven forbid, it could be, you know, just enormous. but what people have to realize is when you start doing a lot of this drilling, you re going to have accidents. i mean, i did a simple minded calculation admittedly with nuclear power but the same principle applies. let s s
shores. joining us from venice, louisiana is phil keating. it seems like they re no closer to containing it, what s the latest? the problem is the weather. as you can see, the wind is kicking up right now, it s getting a little stronger and the sun is rising, so a lot of the tug boats that have the orange containment booms stacked on their backs will be heading out here to string more than 200,000 already existing feet and add on to containment boom to try and protect this coast line. it is fragile. home to half the country s shrimp industry. and so, i spoke with the par esche president here and he says it s absolutely urgent to get this contained because his fear is southwest louisiana, the entire region as we know it could be gone. it gets into the lakes and the b byways and the streams inland you ll never clean it
oysters and blackened beaches is a nightmare come true for everything along that beautiful coast. our next guest says the spill could shut down the industry for the rest of the year. john williams joins us live now from central florida. good to see you. thank you. how do you see this playing out? first, if i may, i would like to say our thoughts prayers go to the folks injured and presumed killed in the accident that we re we re with those families. i see this as a terrible, terrible disaster. and it looks like it s going to get worse. listening to the most recent updates, it looks like the oil output is increasing, we re concerned about taking 90 days to stop this. our shrimp industry is resilient.
just a little bit tomorrow, they will be more of a southerly flow, direct southerly flow. that s going to move it out there to states like mississippi and alabama and eventually even florida, tamron. so we re talking about widespread impacts, everything from wildlife to fish, the shrimp industry here, the oyster industry as well. huge problems to deal with. they are doing everything they can. you mentioned florida. florida s governor now declaring a state of emergency in the panhandle coastal counties due to the threat of the oil slick. we know that the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal already declared a state of emergency for louisiana. now we re seeing some reaction from florida regarding this. thank you very much, julie, with the latest on the weather conditions and how it is impacting the cleanup there. coming up an arizona police officer takes his state to court over that new immigration law. he says it is unconstitutional and fears it will lead to racial profiling. more of