Kenneth Feinberg, the man who will administrate the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund, said yesterday, "we've got to speed it up"—"it" being the compensation payments individuals and businesses desperately need to keep going. David Bodenhamer owns a vacation rental business in Alabama. He just received a $117,000 check (only a drop in the bucket of losses) and joins the program to talk about the financial impact of the oil spill on his business. That, and this morning's headlines.
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