a huge environmental disaster, impacting the environment, especially the commercial fishing in that area. ed, you had mentioned something about the tuna industry, that that might be threatened. can you give me a little bit more information on that? a lot of us are worried about many of the economic/environmental impact. fishermen and women make a living in this part of the country. reporter: clearly. that will be of great concern. we have been speaking with state officials. they say that the state waters along the louisiana and mississippi coastline still haven t been affected. there are officials and coast guard officials and all these other teams are still in the process of getting all that equipment that s necessary out on to this site so they can assess the damage. they have an under water vessel they are sending down to the floor of the gulf of mexico to get a better sense of what they