Offshore drilling. one is this is one example, a catastrophic disaster, but one example of what was not safe, what didn t work. there are other hups of oil rigs humming along and everything is fine. they are not concerned about the overall safety of the oil rigs out there and this kind of accident happening again. secondly they say there is a process here that will take years before you have expanded offshore drilling. you ve got to have private contractors who are going to be bidding on contracts and they got to want out and do this and make sure it s safe. that is something that s going to take they said up to five years. this debate can continue and perhaps it will never happen. perhaps the expansion of offshore drilling will never happen because there s plenty of time where you get to the point where you have the expansion to begin with. clearly, a much more cautious for the administration because of this serious accident.
Waters? our fishermen know how to dodge run. they know every nook and cranny in the water. their livelihood is at stake. they could put out booms and everything. they tell me what s going on in the gulf right now is not doing the job. the fishermen saying that if they let them get out there, they think they could do a better job. right. and are you guys going to be asking for compensation from bp? well, we re going to need some help. we re going to definitely need some help. this is a disaster. we definitely need some help. i wish bp would come down here and just talk to us. the way it looks now, the only ones that come out of this is the lawyers. thousands of water foul are nesting right now, it s the height of the breeding season. when you look at the fear about
Bp saying they need massive help now. the military responding, but still, there has to be this matchup, what can the military actually provide? it may be very limited. they may not have the technology to help bp in this disaster. john and kiran? barbara starr this morning, just such a tragedy. we re continuing to follow the major story. we ll have more coming up. still to come, here s another tragedy, 18 american military veterans take their lives every day. that time of war, what more needs to be done to save the american heroes? we ll put that question to athe assistant secretary to veteran affairs tammy duckworth.
To ensure we knew what was happening. it was then we detected two leaks and more recently this week the third leak. we ve learned more as we have gone through continued evaluation, technology assessments and scientific examination of what we re seeingen on the surface. on top of that, the president is talking about helping you guys out, meaning the coast guard, first responders to this, by bringing other aspects of the military to help you out. where will they be of the most help? and where are they going to be deployed as this disaster starts to grow and get closer to the coastlines? well, we have a number of different efforts that are ongoing. at sea, we re working to apply disbursements to break up the oil. there are skimming operations to collect the oil. we ve collected more than 20,000 barrels of oily water mix. that will be ongoing.
Of space. next time nasa says the public will not be allowed so close. all of those years of work and it comes crashing down like that. they don t think they can salvage any of it. back to the drawing board. right now it can only cost them cash, but some goldman executives will pay with their freedom? possible criminal charges against the bank that can t lose. living in feartown, latinos in phoenix fleeing illegal or not, in fear of the backlash from a new immigration law. also at 7:30, oil spilling ashore hundreds of gallons behind it. we ll check in with the coast guard on efforts to stop what could be an epic environmental disaster. it s ten minutes past the hour. what did we make better ?