we believe that this is critical to the gulf and their survival in the gulf. the state of louisiana has requested $407 million for a 20-year test program. we will continue to monitor the health. more importantly, one of our great challenges is the brand of the gulf of mexico, the brand of the gulf seafood. we have seven generations of family that have plied the waters in louisiana. people need to understand. there are no questions about what is in the market. there might be questions about fishing areas that are closed. we should ask those questions. this is wholesome and safe, this is a tremendously conservative science. we need to convince people about this. people instead of ordering oysters on the half shell, they are having chicken or stake. we need to overcome that. 100 + days of oil gushing and the right hand corner of the television screen has branded us as something other than what we are. we will meet that challenge. this is a very small part of the whole gulf of mexico. we need to look at the whole. this is 200 gallons of oil that has escaped from t

gulf off the coast of new england. what is the testing for that fish or other dish that is going on inside of the oil area that will ensure that it is safe when it finally reaches the part the ocean where that this or any fish is caught? >> i wildefer that question to experts that can answer that better than i can. >> is there someone here who can do that for us? can you move up to the microphone please and identify yourself? >> i am john l. gramm. we do not have a person from the fisheries service here. we had one witness, but we can get those answers to you. >> i think that is an important issue. >> yes. >> to be resolved in people's minds, becauset just seems to you know, to summon the things -- someone that thinks about the -- about the fishing industry, that these are not stationary or territory of -- or territorial entities in many instances. we see sharks up and down the coast of new england and they doot seem to limit themselves to a 5 mile radius. to say do not worry about it a few miles further away, the shar

gulf off the coast of new england. what is the testing for that fish or other dish that is going on inside of the oil area that will ensure that it is safe when it finally reaches the part of the ocean where that this or any fish is caught? >> i will defer that question to experts that can answer that better than i can. >> is there someone here who can do that for us? can you move up to the microphone please and identify yourself? >> i am john l. gramm. we do not have a person from the fisheries service here. we had one witness, but we can get those answers to you. >> i

we believe that this is critical to the gulf and their survival in the gulf. the state of louisiana has requested $407 million for a 20-year test program. we will continue to monitor the health. more importantly, one of our great challenges is the brand of the gulf of mexico, the brand of the gulf seafood. we have seven generations of family that have plied the waters in louisiana. people need to understand. there are no questions about what is in the market. there might be questions about fishing areas that are closed. we should ask those questions. this is wholesome and safe, this is a tremendously conservative science. we need to convince people about this. people instead of ordering oysters on the half shell, they are having chicken or stake. we need to overcome that. 100 + days of oil gushing and the right hand corner of the television screen has branded us as something other than what we are. we will meet that challenge. this is a very small part of the whole gulf of mexico. we need to look at the whole. this is 200 gallons of oil that has escaped from t

more importantly is the brand of the gulf of mexico, the brand of gulf seafood has taken the greatest hit in the history of my seven generations of family that have plide the waters of south louisiana. people need to understand, there may be questions but there's no questions about what's in the market today. there may be questions about fishing areas that are closed, and we should ask those questions. but that product that's in the market today is wholesome and safe based on tremendously conservative science. and we need to convince those american people, customers at restaurants are now instead of ordering oysters on the half shell, very close to my heart, shrimp cocktails. they're saying instead of having that as an appetizer, i'll have chicken wings. instead of having that grouper as my main course, i'll have a steak. we need to overcome that. 100-plus days of oil gushing in the bottom left-hand corner of the tv screen has branded us something other than we are. we have a challenge. we will meet that challenge. however, the challenge is in a very small part of the whole gulf of me

a moratorium on deep water drilling in the gulf, 33 deep water rigs in the gulf currently? >> he said three things. first of all, we have to understand what happened so we can make sure all the safety measures are in place so it doesn't happen again. in the worst-case scenario we have another leak, we have to contain it. we've learned a lot about how to contain it, and some of the oil companies say perhaps we should prestage the containment equipment. that makes a lot of sense. finally we have to clean it up. we've learned a loolt about how you clean it up. we learned how does the burning and skimming work and booming work. if we can answer that, the pause in drilling can be lifted. until we answer the questions we need to make sure that we keep the gulf coast community safe. >> what are the chances it gets lifted early? >> i don't want to speculate on that. the work and analysis is being done. if it's appropriate, it will be lifted. >> are you not satisfied with the answers you're getting so far to those questions about safety. >> it's a very rigorous review under way. the

warm gulf waters helped degrade it. yes, the spill was an economic disaster, by one estimate costing the gulf 17,000 jobs and a billion dollars in economic growth. but only 9% of the gulf coast saw heavy oil, so in louisiana's wetlands, this spill's environmental impact could have been much worse. >> it won't go underwater because of the oil. it will go underwater because of all the other things that we've done to it. >> reporter: so the spill is just the latest manmade disaster here. and environmentalists hoach it spotlights the need for recovery that's generations overdue. mark strassmann, cbs news, hopedale, louisiana. >> glor: intelligence fors in pakistan claim a u.s. missile attack today in a tribal region on the afghan border killed at least 12 people, some of them suspected militants. officials say one of the dead was an important pakistani taliban commander. pakistan's flooding disaster is only getting worse tonight. deadly cholera has now appeared among survivors of floods that have killed more than 1500 peopl

the final kill is underway on the leaky oil well in the gulf. and kids talk about the impact this disaster has had on them. >>> out of nowhere, an employee's deadly rampage at work. what made him snap. >>> heat wave, millions sweltering and for six teenagers trying to cool off, a tragic end. >>> startling new proof tonight that america is losing the battle against weight. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening everyone, i'm lester holt in for brian williams. we begin with a developing story from the gulf of mexico where just a few hours ago, the process to kill the oil well got underway. it seems hard to believe that after 105 days billions of barrels of oil leaked into the sea and engineers are counting on mud to do the trick. anne thompson joins us from louisiana with late details, anne. >> reporter: the news fishermen here in the marina wanted to hear came late this afternoon, the static kill is underway, and it could take two and a half days to complete. it's been a 106-day journey from expl

seafood or gulf tourism. just a few weeks ago fda told me that they had determined that dispersants' had a low potential to accumulate in seafood and do not pose a significant public health risk through human consumption. while this news is welcome, it addresses only the issue of shock turned toxicity. the fda knows little about the long-term impact that these compounds will have on marine life. nor do they know how the presence of oil and dispersants' may influence the concentration of other toxic compounds in seafood species. we have yet to see the full picture of hazards posed by this bill. the work done -- posed by this bill. the work done by noah and epa will be critical in ensuring the shellfish is safe to read for years to come. where do we go from here? where should monitoring and cleanup efforts be focused in this new chapter of recovery and restoration. are the clouds of oil suspended below the ocean's surface still a concern. what about the plumes of methane gas. where have these plumes gone and wi

we produce more oil in the gulf of mexico than we import from all persian gulf sources combined. in the short term, ever barrel of oil we do not produce domestically must be imported. it is quite likely that the marginal would be producing countries like mexico or others. the economic, political, and moral conclusion is that we must use the resources of the gulf of mexico and use them responsibly. this means the extreme caution for stopping is not an option. on that second-hand -- on the other hand, this is not good enough. i repeat that the incident is absolutely unacceptable. never again can we allow such a powerful flow to flow for so long. we must prevent the accidents and contain them and clean up after them. at and specifically been asked to comment on the comparisons between u.s. and air national regulatory regimes. this is punctuated by track to it -- tragic accident beyond the imagination of the industry is regulated. each is followed by a commission and a report, and then they introduce better rules and practices. the macondo blowout has been history's largest such even

in the gulf of mexico the catastrophe actually happened right in the moment drilling. on our platforms we use the so-called equipment used to. help the totally block the border. and all of this is actually controlled. person who doesn't have to be near it. the main task in case of any accident is to cut off the uncontrolled release of oil or gas as soon as possible. problem was solved in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two on one of the fields near the village of part of my sky in eastern ukraine an accident occurred four hundred meters away from the settlement by an oil derrick gas under tremendous pressure burst from the ground. which is very helpful for the environment especially if this hydrogen sulfide. every living thing around this building to which kills flying to the. nuclear explosion isn't environmentally friendly which is very cost effective. to have occurred and everything has been. used to specialize in transporting especially heavy cargo pensioner remembers all too clearly the day he transported a nuclear bomb to an oil well near the village of p

i'm in charge of bp's cleanup on the gulf coast.p has taken full responsibility for cleanup in the gulf and that includes keeping you informed. you may have heard that oil is no longer flowing into the gulf. there's less oil coming ashore every day, but we still have thousands of people ready to clean it up if it does. when oil is spotted, we get right to work. we're working with the coast guard and many other government agencies. summer is the busiest time on the gulf, so every day, we're working with residents and local business owners to make sure beaches are clean and that they can stay open. and our efforts won't come at any cost to taxpayers. the work's not over. we're not going anywhere. it may not be perfect every time, but we're going to be here as long as it takes to make this right. so i take one a day men's 50+ advantage. as a manager, my team counts on me to stay focused. it's the only complete multivitamin with ginkgo to support memory and concentration. plus it supports heart health. [ bat cracks ] that's a hit. one a

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one of the most pressing, is gulf seafood safe to eat? nbc's ron mott joins us from drago's restaurant in metairie, louisiana. ron? >> reporter: hey, lester, good evening to you. drago's hopes to sell a lot of gulf seafood including their very popular char-grilled oysters, seafood that continues to be the focus of intense inspection. in pascagoula, mississippi, the catch of the day netted a lot of attention as government inspectors literally put seafood to the smell test, sniffing, cutting and processing tissue sampz, and officials say the fish, shrimp and oysters pulled from the gulf are safe to eat, showing no signs of oil contamination so far. >> noaa is working hard, a lot of people are working hard to get the word out that the seafood is safe. >> shrimp out of the gulf? >> reporter: today at a supermarket near new orleans, fresh local seafood was a steady seller. >> thank you so much. you have a nice day, sir. >> reporter: the manager michael foto says some customers aren't yet ready. >> i haven't had too much resistance overall, but

into the gulf since the 15th of july. the cap is on there. we just had a tropical storm come through and a low-impact bull's-eye comeover the site and the cap retained its integrity and they're back in the relief well and we're setting up something called a static kill by next weekend which could pump in heavy mud and cement in the well and we have the possibility of permanently killing it, say, by next sunday. after that the relief well is right there and that's the next step if we need to use that. i'm optimistic that we will see no more oil flowing into the gulf. >> so what is your expectation in terms of containment and restoring the region. tell me what's next. >> so we're all over the gulf. we're here with the coast guard and i talked with thad allen. all of the oil on the surface, of course, the oil has not been flowing for a while, it's harder to find. traces of oil are still around in the gulf and on the beaches and we'll be right there to clean it up. we still have tens of thousands of people ready for the respo

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up next the disastrous consequences of the gulf of mexico oil spill r.t. takes a look at whether black gold is really worth the price that's coming up in our special report next on r.t. . the explosion of one. of mexico's the entire world according to various estimates six to fifteen million liters of oil tuesday into the water each day for three and a half months in the soviet union underground nuclear explosions were used to deal with leaking well as they stem the flow of oil within a short period of time. nuclear explosion is safe and very effective economically a different method has been used in the gulf of mexico. special caps on the leaking pipe the task now is to skim the oil slick which. two thirds of the gulf surface some one million square kilometers one tenth of the oil spilled is formed this slick even if engineers eventually succeed in skimming oil from the surface approximately five hundred million liters of oil will remain on the ocean floor and in various steps it's not the first time such a catastrophe has occurred what prices humankind r

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the resilient people of the gulf know how to survive a hurricane.y prepare, clean up and rebuild. four months later they are still struggling with this oil spill. through the prism of the oil spill, so much along the gulf coast remains uncertain. in louisiana's bay jimmy, there is still oil to clean up. workers use giant vacuum cleaners to get it out of the marsh and pull in boom soiled with crude and algae. this boat is filled with oil boom instead of oysters, up to 1,000 bags a day. he's filled with apprehension. >> i don't think the water's clean enough for us to get the oysters out of here. >> reporter: boom is being removed from mobile bay, alabama, a sign of progress. but that progress could also mean the end of paychecks for brian swindle from bp's vessels of opportunity program. he still doesn't know when he can resume making his living off the gulf. >> that's the big question. what's going to happen next year, next season? am i going to be able to fish or not. >> when is clean clean? >> reporter: coast guard admiral paul zukunft. at its hei

the more difficult the process the higher the risks the gulf of mexico oil spill is a strike. league. number of technological. as it turns out all existing methods of stemming the flow of oil do not work in a crisis situation the set of measures available today is simply not a quit. is an ecologist he was a member of an official international delegation invited to mexico in early june two thousand and ten. the russian specialist told the mexican government and united states senators about their proposals on how to block the leaking wellhead. specialists spoke of a concrete solution. in the past they used nuclear explosions still to spread of fires on oil fields. they presented the set of techniques which could be applied to the leaking wellhead. an underground explosion was used on august tenth one thousand nine hundred seventy two to deal with an accident on a major gas field near the village of any eastern ukraine many of the villagers employed at the oil derricks lived only four hundred metres from where it was extracted when they were drilling a new will to add to the thir

we produce more oil in the gulf of mexico than we import from all persian gulf sources combined. in the short ter ever barrel of oil we do not produce domestically must be imported. it is quite likely that the marginal would be producing countries like mexico or others. the economic, political, and moral conclusion is that we must use the sources of the gulf of mexico and use tm responsibly. this means the extreme caution for stopping is not an option. on that second-hand -- on the other hand, this is not good enough. i repeathat the incident is absolutely unacceptable. never again can we allow such a powerful flow to flow for so long. we must prevent the accidents and contain them and clean up after them. at and specifically been asked to comment on the comparisons between u.s. and air national regulatory regimes. this is punctuated by track to it -- tragic accident beyond the imagination of the industry is regulated. each is followed by a commission and a report, and then they introduce better rules and practices. the macondo blowout has been history's largest such event in ter

it has not received the attention yet over the gulf of mexico. raised the question again to make sure we do the evaluation concerning the impact of the methane. these events have never occurred before. we have the chance to study them. in the long term, to protect against the worst from adverse effects -- if any, of what happened, by sending this methane into the ocean. >> a quick question about the secret testing. many people say we need more -- beyond just saying more, what type of testing would satisfy you? more in the volume, or different kinds of tests? >> for example, not much testing is being conducted on the seafood in the areas that still have heavy concentrations of oil. they are close to areas. many study should be done right now of those fish. that will make the long term tracking a lot more informational in the future. that is really not happening now. i think that it should be done as a way of augmenting the information being gathered with the fishing is now being permitted. it is there that i think people have the greatest concern

and the hatchlings are returning to the gulf. they're only about that long when they returned by the thousands to the gulf. they go to the open gulf and exist for years, moving in the currents, perhaps allocating with seaweed. they feed opportunistic we. it may take many years before they may return to the state of texas to breed. therefore, if we affect their blue -- food chain or affect those hatchlings, we mayot see this for years to come. and we do know they can be susceptible to oil. take the sperm whale, they are endangered. but the females come to th gulf in the summer. they feed opportunistic we in the deep water, and squid, cealopods. we have no idea what the deepwater injection of dispersants could it release water into the water column and impact such food supplies for endangered species. these are questions that we may not have revealed to us with answers for years to come. the bluefin tuna, perhaps moving to could threaten status itself. th come to the gulf and release their eggs. the eggs float. the larva feed oppor

commercial shrimping season opened today in the gulf of mexico. this while 672 miles of gulf coastline are still tainted by oil. more than 28,000 people are working to protect the shoreline and wildlife and clean up the mess. our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson was out on the water again today. >> reporter: it's a welcome sight in louisiana's bay collette, west of the mississippi river. shrimp boats trawling nets instead of boom. d.c. cooper says he's home. >> i wish we had a few more shrimp but it feels good. >> reporter: his nets bear the -- of seasons past. shrimping brings $1.3 billion per year to louisiana's economy and more than 14,000 jobs. much of the industry and its workers sidelined by the oil leak. have you seen any oil? >> no, none. >> thank god. >> reporter: that's got to make you feel good. >> it really does. >> reporter: on this trip his nets come up clean. no signs of oil as the fish are sorted from the shrimp with a net and then by hand. what scares the shrimpers isn't so much what they can see but rather

next with a disastrous consequences of the gulf of mexico oil spill r t takes a look at whether black gold is really worth such a high price in our upcoming special report stay with us. the explosion of one rig in the gulf of mexico stunned the entire world according to various estimates six to fifteen million liters of oil tuesday into the water each day for three and a half months in the soviet union underground nuclear explosions were used to deal with leaking whelps they stem the flow of oil within a short period of time. nuclear explosion is safe and very effective economically a different method has been used in the gulf of mexico have installed a special cap on the leaking pipe the task now is to skim the oil slick which now covers nearly two thirds of the gulf surface some one million square kilometers one tenth of the oil spilled has formed this slick even if engineers eventually succeed

our crews are cleaning the gulf beaches 24/7.oing to be here as long as it takes to make this right. and a-c transit management. good morning. i'm john kessler. and i'm sydnie kohara. a judge is expected to rule on whether a-c transit can continue imposing its new bus-driver contract during negotiations. coming up at five: the reason bus drivers still don't seem to be cooperating. a mile- long series of collisions. a drunk driver hits two people, two cars and slams into a pole. his relationship to a san francisco giants player. she's out of jail now, but not a free woman. lindsay lohan released overnight. where she's headed now. also... what's causing a decline in the use of e-mail. join us for cbs 5 eyewitness news early edition ... beginning at five. good morning... it's monday the >>> on the "cbs morning news," here's a look at today's weather. there is hot air over the southern plains as giving the region more triple digit heat. severe weather could be found drifting through the northern plains on the way into the great lakes

for five hours today, out in the gulf, b.p. pumped cement right down the well's throat and sealed it. >> i think we can all breathe a little easier regarding the potential we'll have oil in the gulf ever again. >> reporter: a mile below this boat, b.p. has finally plugged the leak, but the static kill is not the final kill. that's the job of the relief well still a couple of weeks away. the relief well will also pump in concrete, a bottom kill to reinforce today's top kill. but all that spilled oil, 205 million gallons, has stained louisiana's seafood industry worth $2.4 billion a year. perception is a huge problem. diners like liz garvin in new york who refuses to eat gulf seafood. >> you can't guarantee me i'm not going to get sick from it, life's short, you know. >> reporter: nothing is wrong with this at all? >> nothing at all. >> reporter: but in new orleans, al sunseri's oyster business is down 75%. this is how p&j oysters looked on june 10, the last day anyone here shucked oysters. this is p&j today-- it's coolers are of

i say that our hearts feel for those live in the gulf, that work in the gulf, and to whose livelihoods were disrupted. with that having been said, i come from a coastal state -- a little coastal state in the mid- atlantic. i understand better than some folks in the middle part of the country what the important is for sure lines to our economy -- shorelines to our economy. our oceans and our shores give life to many industries are tourism, recreation, fishing, transportation, construction, research, real-estate, and many more. we have to work together to make sure that the laws and regulations that we have in place protect these critical industries and our lives from harm. one of the reasons -- when the lessons i have learnt as chair of the said committee on nuclear safety where i oversee nuclear regulatory commission is the importance of effective regulatory oversight to ensure that we avoid future accidents in the first place. their strong oversight and research, i hope we can develop more effective response measures before. with the oil that leaked and the efforts to clean up the oil

going crisis in the gulf of mexico and the record collapse in u.s. house sales stay with us for. max kaiser and welcome to the kaiser report controversy swirling a room the world dirty corrupt bankers but dirty corrupt rating agencies durian corrupt economists who fail to see the big picture as we do on this show we give it to you rob we give it to you straight we give it to you real let's go to states or overseas here or give us some of the real stuff max i have a lot of real stuff first a real beef with you but i deposited a fifty euro note that you gave me into my bank account yesterday yeah and the whole machine shut down yeah guards came to me and said it was a counterfeit fifty euro note yet now that's the fifty euro note that you gave me ok you're hanging the money you're passing bad bills well speaking of bad bills this is indirectly in my first headline max china's gold demand surge is twenty six percent in q two w g c w g c is the world gold council and they report china's gold demand in the april june period reached one hundred eleven point seven tons making the nation

we are committed to the gulf for as long as it takes to make the gulf-- you know, the best it can be. i mean, the people of those communities deserve it. so do the people of our nation. we all enjoy the seafood from the gulf. this is a national treasure about whether the incident commander, thad allen, extended too much exceptions in the use of those dispersants. what can you-- can you give any assurance on that front? >> i think the most important number for people to look at is the 72% reduction in the use of desperceants from the highest point. it was coming down , that was, i think, a large measure lisa jackson's work with admiral allen that they were not using as much as had once been used. clearly, everybody is going to be studying what the oil did to the environment, what the dispersants mean in the environment. there's a lot to learn. i think the good news today is there's no oil leaking. there's not going to be oil leaking, and giving the public an accounting of where the oil went. >> woodruff: going >> ifill: pakistan is struggling to recover from its worst flooding in 80 ye

the gulf of mexico is big. it's not an easy challenge. >> brown: david farenthold, let me bring you in here. we have reported on several studies coming out in the last week. is there a dispute over displacement versus breaking down oil? what do you see going on? >> to me the government's report at the beginning of this month that you showed some clips from, that answered the central mystery of this spill. this is not the exxon "valdez," as chris said, where all the oil floats on the surface. a lot of the oil was underneath the surface. the question was what became of it? so that was just a mystery. then there was a pie chart. the government came to us with this pie chart and said here, we mow what happened to all the oil. we've estimated it and it looks like okay, a lot of it is missing. it's underneath the water but our calculations show the oil you can't see is still not much of a problem because a lot of it is degrading rapidly. the question now is were they right? is the oil we can't see really either gone