patti ann. >> patti ann: as you say.in islathe island ready this. >> reporter: as ready as they'll be, no one can stop the spill but at least can make efforts to mitigate it. the weather will largely determine where the spill goes but today we have been watching heavy efimequipment drive up an down the street, some from license tags as far away as new england going to various staging areas, once the oil comes they'll be able to put the equipment into play, and, hopefully, clean some of the oil up, mitigate some of the damage and if you come back to my live shot you can see behind me there used to be booms floating on the water and seas were too choppy and they pulled them out, it was apparent with the bad weather they were not going to make a lot of difference, at least not in this area where i am now, patti ann. >> patti ann: jonathan serrie, thank you. >> gregg: the response from washington, d.c., growing criticism of the federal government and bp not doing enough to stop the pending disaster in the gulf of mexico and

i'm patti ann browne, now back to fox news sunday and go to our web site for more. paefpaef >> this country -- has given a lot to us and we have to developed what the country stood for, which is freedom. >> chris: singer gloria estefan, taking parts in protests with the arizona immigration law and it's time for our sunday group, brit hume, fox news senior political analyst, and contributors mara liasson of national public radio, bill kristol of the weekly standard and juan williams also from national public radio. is the furor about the arizona law, is it much ado about nothing. >> it is much ado about not much and i sat here and made comments based on my reading of news stories about the arizona immigration law and big mistake and turns out a lot of the stories simply had it wrong and the critics of the bill have also got it wrong. it does not authorize the singling out at random of individuals to have their papers checked by skin color and even as it was originally written and amended, it requires that there be a law enforcement incident, legitimate incident, a st

her family owns joe patty's seafood, a mom and pop operation. mary annattorney who was involved in mike papantonio's class action suit against bp. can you put into words tonight what your family, business, community could be facing? >> it's absolutely horrendous. we're looking at catastrophic damages for what is happening. and when i say that, you've got to look at my family has had this seafood company, my grandparents started it back in 1935. all of our family is either off shot, they all have their own companies, we've got our company. but all of our companies have fishermen, oystermen, distributors, all of these people are going to be affected. we have already -- i was talking to one of my uncles today, he is already having to send his mullet fishermen down east, so they can mullet fish. the price of mullet has already gone up. that's something simple. but when you sit back and look at what it's doing to the economy, what it's doing to the local fishermen, you've got people that this has been their entire life. they don't know anything else, other th