and had big blobs of oil coming down in front of him and it was a lot more visually stimulating. what surprised him is how much the oil has been broken up and he considers it more dangerous than if the oil was sitting up on the surface because it can t be cleaned up. we spoke with bp. they don t have the technology to clean it up. they are realing on mother nature to do so. and pretty much a lot of people are calling this a gamble. epa justifieding putting the disperse edi dispersants in the water saying it was the letters of two evils. but this is what people are starting to question right now, is it the letters of two evils when you see that much sitting in the water column. so what is mr. cousteau s vision of what will happen to those drop lets that are right now in the water coal lem? will it eventually descend or is it inevitable that it would make
those hazmat suits to enter the water. that s what we did yesterday. we wanted to give you a perspective of what s going on beneath the surface. we have seen so many images of these blobs of oil. we kept thinking, wh s going on underneath there with what many environmentalists are calling bp s hidden oil, out of sight, out of mind oil, the oil that s been dispersed. dispersants break up oil into little tiny drop lets that are now floating in the water column. bp has bumped millions of gals of dispersants into the oil since very early on on this spill. if you take a look at some of the video we shot yesterday, it looks pretty cloudy, because you are seeing the millions of tiny drop lets of oil that are floating in that water column. it is something that amazed us as divers to see how prevalent that was. that particular patch, the
take a look at the black blobs that washed up today on the beach in pensacola, florida. it s the biggest amount of oil to hit the state so far affecting more than nine miles of white shore line. the health advisory has been issued for parts of pensacola beach and charlie crist says it breaks his heart. joining us now marco rubio, the republican senatorial candidate in florida. thanks very much for coming in. thank you. glad to be here. let s talk about what s happening right now in florida. it is heart breaking to see these pictures. it seems to be getting worse and worse, not better. is that what you re hearing? it is. it is heart breaking. you see these sandy white beaches in pensacola that are part of our heritage. people have raised their families there, both economically and creating family memories. it absolutely breaks your heart. more needs to be done is the bottom line. i think the federal government took its time in responding early on.
the oil and the damage? reporter: in gulfport, no, because there is no oil on those beaches. here in alabama, a staging center for the cleanup, he s not going to see it here. he will be on a ferry that will take him from dauphin island to another part of the alabama coast it s likely he will see oil in the water and oil on the beaches. when he gets to pensacola he will talk about the fears people have about oil hitting their shores. is he going to be ankle deep tonight, no, but he will see some of it. shannon: thank you very much, major. now the story along the gulf unfold, you can check out major garrett s brand-new imagery. pictures like this, blobs of oil wash up onshore at a resort at orange beach, alabama. a large tar ball next to a shoe. you can see how big it is.
the equal position at this point. still the uk england is widely considered to be a better team. i m not just saying that because i live over here. right. okay. and clearly a soccer fan and soccer mom, dawna friesen. thank you very much for the report. you can all keep up with the latest on the world cup matches on msnbc.com. three major developments this morning in the gulf oil catastrop catastrophe. for the first time, significant amounts of oil are washing up along the shores of alabama. orange beach is seeing tar-like blobs coupled with oozing waves of dark brown surf. right now the clock is ticking for bp. the coast guard has given the oil giant just the weekend to ramp up efforts to contain the gushing oil. in a letter to the company, the coast guard complaints bp s pace is too slow. bp says it will respond by tonight. and president obama is preparing for another trip to the gulf coast tomorrow. it will be his fourth visit to the region since the disaster began. and n