like jet blue and air tran. d and thet from the gulf right now. the coast card tells bp it isn t doing enough to get a handle on the oil spill and that the company must map out a more aggressive containment plan within the next 48 hours. steve harrigan is on the coast of grand aisle, louisiana. bring us up-to-date, please. you can see yourself some results of that spill. we are in a state preserve here, a state park, a nature preserve and see the blobs of oil coming together here in a big clump. this is what it looks like up close. it s goo. it feels like hot tar, it really sticks to anything. and this is a tidal pool we re looking at here and ordinary northwest airline you see this teeming with life, with birds, with minnows, with crabs darting around, but you can see here, this was a hermit crab here and it s now colored red like just about everything else, covered with oil and
stuff that s floating out here in blobs. you can see there s some vegetation here, that it s glopped on to. that s what it s like. you know, you see it on camera and you think you want to touch it and sort of see what it s like. once you see it in person and you smell it, the desire to touch it goes away. see, that doesn t come off. beyond petroleum, my ass. while we were out on the water we went to a very small island at the mouth of barataria bay, a small island swamped with oil. we really wanted to see it and we learned something from being there. but i ve got to tell you, being there was one of the grossest things i ve ever done in my life. the unbelievable footage we shot there and the scary things we learned coming up next.
onshore. bill, do you get the sense in your community that there s any way that you can protect those who you serve? well, we thought this monster which continues to grow, it s getting bigger and bigger all the time. we learned a couple of days ago, that from spraying it, it goes beneath the surface. and two days ago, it washed up on some of the shores down at port ease, in blobs. now if this monster all of a sudden becomes invisible, we re in real trouble keeping it out of our marsh. we have jack-up boats stationed across the coast, to fight it if it tries to get up the fingers of the marsh. but if it tries to come in under the surface of the water, we re fighting an invisible monster. representative, let s cut to the chase here. we all know that every potential resource at our disposal needs to be devoted to this. this could be months before we get ann exxonn valdez dumped ino
with thick blobs of tar washing up on alabama beaches with layoffs beginning to hurt it s spreading as fast as the oil slick rather gladstone jones represents the families of victims on the oil rig explosion he was in court on friday. thank you for being with us. so first of all the property owners do they have property owners with problems with the beach. there will be people with raw land people with hotels and hot dog stands. in dolphin island and the reports of oil washing up on the beaches. what about the fisherman? i heard 900 oyster men already laid off. the economic hurt is just
with thick blobs of tar washing up on alabama beaches with layoffs beginning to hurt it s spreading as fast as the oil slick rather gladstone jones represents the families of victims on the oil rig explosion he was in court on friday. thank you for being with us. so first of all the property owners do they have property owners with problems with the beach. there will be people with raw land people with hotels and hot dog stands. in dolphin island and the reports of oil washing up on the beaches. what about the fisherman? i heard 900 oyster men already laid off. the economic hurt is just