civilian capacity. >> now that storm alex has mostly passed, give us a sense of the latest on how badly hurricane alex has him pangted the skimming effort? how soon can your teams return to their positions? >> well, skimming is always impacted by weather and whether this storm is having a definitely impact, we had to pull the skimmers that were skimming oil off the waters. we're putting that force together to be back on the water as soon as we can once the weather passes and that affects not only the area near shore, but the well head itself where they need to be skimming as well. >> you talk about that area near shore, especially in louisiana, you said wednesday that a two three-foot storm surge alone could move oil inland and into the marsh lands there where we hadn't seen it before. what is the early assessment at this point. >> well, what's happening right now is we have got assessment