WH Rips BP CEO For Yachting

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On Day 61 of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP faces another public relations disaster. As the gusher continues to flow a mile below the surface in the Gulf. BP CEO Tony Hayward spent Saturday at a prestigious yacht race around England's Isle of Wight.

Also, tarballs were spotted for the first time on the beach at Panama City, Fla., and BP restarted its oil-capture operation after a 10-hour shutdown.

Back to Hayward, a man who looked a lot like the BP chief was sailing in Hayward's boat in a yacht race off the coast of England Saturday, CBS News Correspondent Don Teague reports.

BP confirmed Hayward was at the race though the company wouldn't say whether he was on the boat. Still, the news presented a stunning contrast in images as oil continues to gush from his company's blown-out well.

The reaction here in Louisiana?

"You wake up in oil, you go to sleep in oil just about, and so Tony Hayward, Tony Baloney, wherever he's at, at the race tracks or the yachts, maybe he just needs to stay over there and send the money, and we'll take care of business," Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle said. Read more...

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