the bp situation? we have samples that were collected in may, early in may, from many of the same sites that we re sampling right now. in may, this layer was not present. it was not here. this layer has developed over the past four months. reporter: joy concedes they won t know for sure that this oil is from the deepwater horizon spill until they chemically fingerprint it back in their labs. joy discovered dead organisms underneath the oily sediment and worries about marine life that feed off that. what kind of organisms are exposed to this oil? anything that goes to the bottom. any fish, any invertebrate, any kwid, octopus, anything that is going to the bottom looking for food is going to be exposed to that material. reporter: then, joy says, that could deprive other fish up the chain from a healthy food source. an official with noaa tells cnn this finding does not
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joined by kate zernike author of boiling mad: inside tea party america, and cnn is your source of all things politics. if you can t check us out on tv, check us out online. and this morning, we re learning more about last week s deadly explosion and fire in california. pg&e is beginning to inspect all of its gas pipelines in the state. now critics are warning regulation has been lax for years. so much so, they re saying there are thousands of old, potentially leaky pipes across the country. and the risk of another san bruno-like event are better than average. ted rowlands has the latest on the investigation in california. reporter: this gas station surveillance video shows the first moment of last thursday s explosion. watch closely as the man in the red vehicle gets out. first, you can see chunks of asphalt and debris, then a massive wall of flames shooting into the sky. within seconds, the fire grows larger.
coverage. they are called team rubicon and they don t ask questions, they just spring into action, risking their own lives to save the lives of others. here s our kaj larsen from islamabad, pakistan, with an inside look you ll only see on cnn. reporter: when the floods in pakistan happened, i embedded myself with team rubicon. after 8,000 miles and three straight days of traveling from islamabad, rubicon arrives the a dire humanitarian situation. thousands of people who more than a month into the crisis still had not received any medical aid. we re going to triage people and identify the sickest patients first. while there was a lot of men lining up out here, the actual sickest patients were the women and the children who are kept separate and they are in the back. we identified one baby who had all of the signs and appearance of severe dehydration. and now i m bringing the
country. they ve heard all these political messages right now in the midterm election. he s trying to keep this non-political. i m told the president s got a fundraiser in philadelphia next week. some people are wondering why didn t the president combine this official speech, do it next week when he s going to do some fund raising in philadelphia. i m hearing he just wanted this to be completely separate. he didn t want to be doing any fund raising on the same day he s giving this speech. didn t want a whiff of politics. probably a good idea not to have the fundraiser on the same day he s talking to the students. next he ll be accused of hitting the kids up for lunch money. campaign contributions. exactly. ed henry, thanks, ed, appreciate it. we ll have live coverage of president obama s back to school message from philadelphia today. you can watch that right here on cnn starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern. it is 7:30 in the east, 30 minutes past the hour. and that means time for t