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Recognize -- sodium cyanide, calcium carbide, volatile, organic compounds, possibly compressed natural gas. all of these chemicals were brought into this area. they were stored there and then they were distributed throughout china to the mining industry, to the industrial industry, all of these different -- all of these different industries had some of their most dangerous chemicals sitting in one place within a very close proximity to peoples homes. and now, the firefighters that are on the sce...

>>alisyn: why not just coat the whole thing in sand? it has been eight days. >>guest: they need to stabilize the rods, first, with enough water so the circulation process can continue and they can be cooled. >>alisyn: this morning we understand an external power line has been connected to supply electricity. how does that help? >>guest: that is positive because if the cooling equipment inside the reactor is operational that will allow the water to be pumped into both the spent fuel pools and the...

As the sand is covering the oil it does degrade a little bit. as we saw in the video . i believe you are right. they are going to have to continue to bring in sand. i think you mentioned earlier that there is a lot of pol tessions that come in to louisiana are brought to this particular beach. they escort journalist to a certain point . so i think it worked to their advantage to have pristeen beaches when they are out there. >> judson parker, great work and this is what journalist do. they bring...

Hard to believe it is day 75 of the gulf oil crisis and bp has its hans full frying to clean it up. >> is bp trying to cover up the beaches with fresh sand in >> what you are seeing here is where the sand is what they dumped on the beaches it has eroded down and if you look, four layers down you can see that it is covering up oil. >> thats outrageous. one of the men who recorded that video joins us on the phone yustin judson, thank you for sharing that video with the world and joining us this mo...

Told us. we are all looking into the allegation and yet to verify. judson have you reached out to the police or local officials and discussed what you have found? >> we did reach out to those folks. a couple of local sheriffs spoke with us x. when we asked them if there were trucksing in and dumping, they conif i wered there were trucks coming in and dumping sand and spread around on the peaches and we poke with a couple of locals, bp contractor who would like to remain unnamed confirmed they ha...

Any reason that we can wrap our heads around why bp would dump sand on the beech other than to hide the oil in >> we have asked ourselves the same question. we saw piles of sand and when we crossed over, i think you saw in the video there is a orange boom. we acrossed over to the water line, we could see sort of different coined of sand than you see on the beach. more orange and gritty almost like dirt. i think we maybe got lucky. it was the day after alex came through and the tide had washed so...

Duty to clean it up. not cover it up? >> absolutely. and even if they were unintentionally were covering oil when they were import dutching the sand. if they were bringing in for a different purpose, what ever happened it ended up on top of thole which means that it is not going to be cleaned up. it will sit there and when they reopen the beaches, it is going to be a threat to people and remain a threat to the wild life. so we need to make sure wharf happened that bp or contractors held accoun...

Gulf coast. photojournalist got his hands on video on a beach in grand isle, louisiana. looks like bp is adding sand over on top of the oil on the beaches. well let you decide. >> what you are seeing here, is where the sand that they have dumped on the beaches has eroded down and if you look about four layers down, you can see it is covre covering up oil. >> hes going to join us later on the show. this is an outrage. >> it is two differentie toops of sand and he discovered this. >> this is true....

Limits to the public, there is an orange fence and a small group of guys are using shovels and bags to scoop up oil-stained sand, and, to stack up and get out of here and from where you are along the gulf of mexico, reservations and bookings and revenues are down from 40% to 80%, so, it is certainly a glum fourth of july weekend so far. >> clayton: i saw an ad the other day from florida, saying, hey, remember, we have 852 square miles of beaches, come down here! if you are planning on coming dow...