basically off couple boats that work in tandem with that containment boom between them they skim the ail off the surface, 8,000 or 9,000 gallons of water has been removed but at sea is only part of the issue. they're still cleaning off the beaches. shovelful by shovelful of oily rocks and sand and also dealing with wildlife. there are a number of wildlife centers set up. they will open them to cameras later today to show what they're doing to rescue the wildlife and we may get a better sense of what the impact of that has been. so we were led to believe yesterday the pace of the cleanup was going to rapidly increase. they have a lot of work ahead of them. >> we thought we might find out what caused the pipeline to break soon. where does that effort stand? >> it turns out there's quite a bit of protocol involved. the company, plains all american pipeline, says they will not