some trees that are down. crews out there now cutting them up and clearing up the mess. op lanes at mass ave are closed between little park avenue and baltimore avenue. be aware of that. we ll let you know when things clear up there. we ve had a couple of days of rain and storm that s caused some of that. maybe weaken the ground. are we going to get a little bit of the break today? from the rain, yeah. it s going to be warmer today than it has the couple of days. let s take a look at what s going on right now. i think our morning is getting off to pleasant start, we don t have as much humidity as moisture in the air. humidity level at 74%, remember it was at 90% at one point yesterday morning and then dropped down to about 80%. 74% is improvement. 76 degrees is your temperature. barometric pressure on the rise when things begin to calm down around here. radar composite for the region, there is your precipitation and cloud cover, there it goes, bye bye, it s off the co
animal advocates say is going wrong with the effort to save wildlife. before we get to that, i want to show you something, take a look. it s a picture you re all too familiar with, the oil pouring from the gulf floor. oil on its way to the shores of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, florida and god knows where else. we believe tomorrow night when the president speaks we may get a new estimate of how much oil is gushing into the gulf. no matter what the number, we already have started to see it s toll. now, i know it seems like we ve been talking about this oil for a long time, and maybe you re getting tired of hearing about it. i understand that, but this oil isn t keeping track of days or weeks. this oil, this crude is relentless, and it s destroying lives and businesses and threatens to ened a way of life here in louisiana. no one is more tired of this stuff than the people here, they cannot turn away. this oil, this crude will not let them. it s spreading, it s not stopping
louisiana, mississippi, alabama, florida and god knows where else. we believe tomorrow night when the president speaks we may get a new estimate of how much oil is gushing into the gulf. no matter what the number, we already have started to see it s toll. now, i know it seems like we ve been talking about this oil for a long time, and maybe you re getting tired of hearing about it. i understand that, but this oil isn t keeping track of days or weeks. this oil, this crude is relentless, and it s destroying lives and businesses and threatens to ened a way of life here in louisiana. no one is more tired of this stuff than the people here, they cannot turn away. this oil, this crude will not let them. it s spreading, it s not stopping, and tonight neither are we. and we won t stop until the oil stops. president obama is in the gulf on a two-day trip, he s going to address the nation tomorrow night. we ll have more on the white house strategy for getting tougher with bp. we begin
smartest people in the world. i know that ken salazar was touring the rehabilitation facility. the obama said last week they are watching it hour by hour. what did he learn today. reporter: sn. reporter: so far at least 13 bird have died here because of the oil slick. the secretary actually tour add wildlife rehabilitation facility. he watched as the workers washed down a brown pell can trying to save it. at this particular facility, eight animals have been treated. one interesting static, it can take 10-12 days to rehab the birds once they are coated with oil. they are then sent back out the gulf. now, the question remains, what is it going to protect those birds in the future because the
right now off the coast of louisiana they are working on plugging the massive oil leak. this time they are using underwater submarines to insert a tube directly into the gusher. crews had to bring in the entire contraption back to the surface to make adjustments. at that point, dp is highway patrolful they may be able to siphon oil up as early as tonight. david lee miller is live. no doubt there is a great deal of disappointment because they will be trying the same technique again. there is some cautious optimism. what they are trying to do is implement the riser insertion tool. let me explain that. the pipe that is leaking is 21 inches of circum france called the riser. they want to insert a six inch tube that would travel up to the surface, like a big straw funnel the oil up to a tanker. this increasing done essentially roboticly 5,000 feet down. it s like playing a very high-tech video game with billions of dollars at stake. just a short time a bp official explained more