on. dave: pineapple out there. i didn t get any of that clayton. clayton: sorry about that, dave. dave: we want to thank our servicemen and women around the world fighting for their countries, serving their country. thanks to all of you. alisyn: start with good news. i will say that a little bit of good news in the tragedy in the gulf on day whatever this is, 72. clayton: 6. alisyn: 76. it s nice to finally be able to report a glimmer of hope there is something called the whale right off site practicing to come in and start skimming. clayton: there is this bad boy. like three football fields long. we don t need to get into the numbers. this thing is massive. what it does is sucks up millions of gallons of water. oil soaked water it will soak up the sea water, suck up the oil and spit the water back in the gulf and save the oil in tanker
and that s not acceptable for us. and the cost guard said 500 oil-skimming ship has to return to shore. and also reduce the burning efforts as well. what is the plan, as far as getting the ships back into the water. well, we were hoping to start putting some of our boats back in this morning. and we re getting hit with another rain band. hopefully, it will pass just after 6:00 a.m. we re hoping that we ll get boats out in the next couple of hours, to at least get out to where the boom has been laid. and try to make sure we secure it if it s been damaged. if we can t get all the way to the oil and start skimming. i know there s a lot of just frustration in neighboring jefferson parish as well. to get the rocks off the places. i guess many local and state leaders, saying that the fed are dragging their feet. and we need the ability to fight
able to get some boats outs in the next couple of hours to at least get out to where the boom has been laid and try to make sure ha we secure it. that s been damaged. if we can t get all the way to the oil and start skimming. well the coast guard is going out for an aerial survey today. it s going to check things out, check out the conditions and see how the storm is impacting things out there. well meanwhile, even as the oil spill did he have states her home state of louisiana, senator mary landreau defends the need for offshore drilling. but the is the democrat after jobs or big oil money for her re-election. we track into the money going into senator landreau s coffers. reporter: she s the top recipient of bp money in the last election cycle among all congressional candidates. and louisiana senator mary landreau makes no apologies for it. how do you respond to people