. >> reporter: i'm diane eastabrook in biloxi, mississippi. coming up, i'll tell you what the shrimping industry here is doing to gets its products back on your dinner plate. >> susie: in japan, workers started today draining highly radioactive water from the basement of that badly damaged nuclear plant. it's the latest step to stabilize the fukushima daiichi plant and prevent more toxic spills into the ocean. meanwhile, initial damage estimates from japan's massive earthquake and tsunami are coming in from the insurance industry. total insured losses range from $12 billion to $34 billion. to get more perspective on that, earlier today, tom hudson talked with shivan subramanian, the c.e.o. of f.m. global, a commercial property insurance firm. tom began by asking what the firm's damage estimate is. >> yes, right now, even though we have $7.3 billion of capitol in one of the largest property and shores in the world, i would estimate there are japanese losses that are going to come under $150 million. >> tom: so a bit on the lower side from some

tomorrow we'll head to biloxi, mississippi, where the shrimp industry is trying to get its catch back on america's dinner table. diane eastabrook, "nightly business report," gulf shores, alabama. >> tom: as we just heard, some businesses say their claims to the b.p. compensation fund were denied without explanation. others got checks, but not a reason for the settlement amount. our darren gersh recently talked with ken feinberg, the administrator of b.p.'s $20 billion fund. darren began by asking if there's a problem with the way the fund pays out claims. >> well, there's a problem. first of all, one problem is the sheer magnitude of the number of claims. we have received in the past nine months 800,000 claims in just ninth months for all over 50 states. so there may be some businesses that rebate getting the type of tailored, individualized treatment they expect. that's a mistake. we try to minimize the number of those. we have taken great steps in the past two months to solve that problem. >> reporter: i know you don't comment on specific claims, but can you give us sort of an examp

troops, but he came with 44 vessels that blockaded the southern parts, you know, the katrina parts, biloxi, new orleans and so forth. he blocked that area so the british could not come invade from the south. gave washington a chance towards recuperating at valley forge. every -- there is no american cemetery throughout the world whether it be normandy, iraq, there is no american military cemetery where there's not a mexican buried in it, including gettysburg. give me a hand for that. [applause] >> there was somebody there waiting on this side here. sir? next question here on the right-hand side. >> the question is for sal castro. sal, i'm a chicano from redondo beach. remember that? you were very involved with camp kramer in malibu. i was wondering if you could give us an update on what's happening with that effort and whether you continue to bring leadership to the young people in the community can. >> thank you very much. thank you for asking. we've been in existence since 1963 off and on, but, you know, as soon as the budget crunch hit, we were cut off. the l.a. city schools cut us off.

from the "biloxi sun-herald," "america needs energy and workers need jobs."rom the "mobile press register," "deepwater drilling is important to coast and nation." they noted that the government gave out the permit because "noble energy had proven it could drill safely in a post-bp spill environment." which would be awesome. if we all believed it. that said, a report given to the interior department last week reveals that what america thought was the big backup plan in case an oil well goes apocalyptic is not really a backup plan at all. this is a blowout preventer, a piece of safety equipment that sits at the top of an oil well. if pressure from under the sea floor rises into the well, if the well starts to blow out, then the blowout preventer is supposed to seal the well off to keep the pressure and the oil in. these blowout preventers are required on every deepwater rig in the gulf of mexico. and that is scary because it turns out that these blowout preventers are flawed. they are flawed in a way that -- such a way that the very accidents they're supposed t

she said she was from biloxi. she didn't have -- she didn't have custody of the kids she said she had, and she never went to the hospital. in fact, she was wanted for bank fraud, or check kiting and check fraud. she was arrested shortly after the times piece ran, and shortly after that the times standard editor issued a memo saying to the reporters we will have no more single source stories. the reporter essentially took her at her word and never checked any other public records that were unable to check. we have the awful story of the duke rape case, which stuart taylor, a journalism of "national review" wrote a wonderful book about which he called the fable of evil rich men running amok and abusing poor black women. it was just a story that was too good to be true. it was too delicious. she said they should take outcome of the time should take a billboard in times square and apologize. that they never did and it was never an editorial note to readers of anything acknowledging just how bad the times reporting was

. >> let's go east to biloxi, mississippi.there. $150 a night for the room but they throw in a $50 food credit, a $25 spa credit and a lot of these places all throughout the gulf are offering stay two nights, get a third night free. >> and you're in gulf shores, alabama, a big tourist destination. any deals there? >> a lot of deals here. a lot of condos here. that's where families or couples it's a great deal. starting at like $99 a night. but they throw in other deals, for example a round of golf, deep sea fishing. if you're dealing with a $99 condo and you're a couple or a family, it's affordable. >> and again to reiterate what you said earlier, you talk about fishing again. no traces of oil in the water? >> no. in fact. there are some traces of oil. the response teams, one came by a little while ago. i'm in gulf shores. gulf shores and orange beach you're dealing with a 32-mile stretch of beach here. in the last two weeks they've collected nearly 10,000 pounds of tar balls. let's put that in perspective. that is a very smal

they may need that in berkley but we don't need that in biloxi. i can tell you that right now. that's where we're going and it's not an accident. when they shut down the gulf of mexico. when you have got enormous proven reserves in alaska. when it's harder to get a permit to mine coal than it is to get a heart transplant it's pretty easy to see that this is not only their policy, this is the one policy they got that's working. the cost of energy is going up. i believe we need exactly the opposite energy policy. our energy policy should be more american energy. when the british landed in jams town they looked over the rail and they saw abundant american energy in the form of timber and wood. we need more oil. we need more natural gas. we need to make sure that liberal opposition to hydraulic fracturing, the new technology that has increased our natural gas supplies so tremendously by making gas available that we di't know we would be able to produce economically. we need to make sure that that doesn't slow down. we have commercial scale carbon capture see question ration. we nee

they may need that in berkeley, but we don't need that in biloxi. i can tell you that right now. that is where we are going and it is not as active. when they shut down the gulf of mexico. when you got enormous, proven reserves in alaska. when it is harder to get a permit to mine coal in alachua than getting a heart transplant -- appalachia, you can see this is not just their policy but the one policy that is working. because of the cost of energy is going up. president obama -- then senator obama told "the san francisco chronicle," under my cap and trade plan and a trustee rates will necessarily skyrocket. i believe we need exactly the opposite energy policy. our energy policy should be more american energy. when the british landed at jamestown they looked over the rail 400 years ago, and they saw abundant american energy in the form of timber, the form of woo d, and for 400 years we had abundant, affordable american energy that has been one of the great comparative advantages -- advantages to our economy in competing in the global marketplace. we need more oil, we need more nat

they may need that in berkley but we don't need that in biloxi. i can tell you that right now. that's where we're going and it's not an accident. when they shut down the gulfof mexico. when you have got enormous proven reserves in alaska. when it's harder to get a permit to mine coal than it is to get a het transplant it's pretty easy to see that this is not only their policy, this is the one policy they got that's working. the cost of energy is going up. i believe we need exactly the opposite energy policy. our energy policy should be more american energy. when the british landed in jams town they looked over the rail and they saw abundant american energy in the form oftimber and wood. we need more oil. we need more natural gas. we need to make sure that liberal opposition to hydraulic fracturing, the new technology that has increased our natural gas supplies so tremendously by making gas available that we didn't know we would be able to produce economically. we need to make sure that that doesn'tlow down. we have commercial scale carbon capture see question ration. we need to