you have a nice quality. and market without much other product on the market and you can do well in an auction situation. of course, the show takes place out of gloucester, massachusetts and famous, famous town of hundreds of fishermen lost tear lives, made famous by the show the perfect storm and the ship went down and you look at the people before you and you had a ship wreck in 2003. it has to be on your mind. yeah, you think about it. it s there, but you don t dwell on it. because, you know, even like when i lost at that boat in 2003. we sank 20 miles out on the way home from fishing, it s like my father asked me, he said, you know, you lost the boat now, and are you going to get out of the fishing business? and i put it to him. look, dad. if the insurance, god forbid if the building caught on fire and burned to the ground and everybody get out, okay, would you get out of the insurance business? you know, of course not.
more comfortable until officials say they have a handle on that situation 5,000 feet below the surface of the water. this would affect the tuna fishing as well as the shrimping industry. could be a very big problem. thank you, ed. as the senate moves closer to a possible showdown to financial reform, there are some who are asking if wall street suffers because of the bill, so what? let s bring in our senior political analyst david gergen to talk a little about that. obviously, you get the sense here that financial reform going to go to the senate. a lot of people talking about this. this is the new york times op-ed says it s entitled don t cry for wall street. . it says the fact that mr. obama should be trying to do what s right for the country, full stop. if doing so hurts the bankers, that s okay. should there be some concern here for private enterprise, free enterprise, that the banks are going to suffer, or does it really matter? well, suzanne, it s one thing
this is an area very popular for commercial tuna fishing as well, but so far state officials in louisiana and mississippi say they have no signs that any state waters or state beaches have been affected in any way. ed lavandera, cnn, new orleans. making a list and checking it twice or even three times. president obama weighing potential supreme court nominees. i will play the name game. where is sonny. sonny haustin, contributor to in session next in the cnn newsroom. good morning, sonny. good morning. their safe arrival is highly anticipated. as is something else. a shipment of natural sea salt from cargill, essential for preserving the catch. we deliver the salt on precise schedules and ship it efficiently all along the alaskan coast. saving the fishermen money and their catch. this is how cargill works with customers.
officials in louisiana and mississippi say they have not seen oil approaching state waters area, meaning beaches and that sort of thing are safe for now. they will closely monitor that throughout the day. this is a big area for fishing as well. and officials from the u.s. fish and wildlife service say tuna fishing could be severely impacted because of the spill as well. an update on the search and rerescue, i understand it s still under way? reporter: they say the sun is starting to come up, we presume if they haven t launched already, they will do so soon. they stress any hope of finding them alive has pretty much dwindled at this point. ed lavandera, thanks so much. we ll speak with rear admiral mary landry about the plan to search for the missing 11 and
mississippi. so far, state officials say there is no threat of state waters being affected. that could change. they will be continuing to monitor the situation throughout the rest of date. john? you know if the potential environmental impact in blue water where the tuna, the marlin, the sailfish, the wahoo run. reporter: absolutely. we have spoken with the u.s. fish and wildlife. that is a major concern for them, even given the conditions that we are dealing with right now. this is an area very big for tuna fishing and commercial fishing. that will be impacted. it would be more severely impacted if all of this crude oil were to spill at hundreds of thousands of gals a dlon s a da