into the gulf in around two hours. it will take a few days to get it in place. that s all going on about 50 miles out in the gulf, but there s even more action closer to shore. rob marciano live in biloxi, mississippi, for us this morning. so, rob, the weather has been a problem there for a number of days so, what it s like now and how will it affect those efforts for containment? reporter: huge improvement, kyra, since over the weekend where they have the strong south winds blowing that slick closer and closer to the northern gulf shorelines and now that the winds have stopped that oil transport pretty much has stopped at least the northern progressi progression of it. that s the good news. the bad news is it s drifted closer to the louisiana shoreline and the sensitive wetlands there and wildlife certainly affected more than what we ve seen on our air coverage. forecast for the next several days continued like this that s the good news light winds, maybe a light south breeze bu
time. we talked about the unmanned vehicles. we have that coverage from california through texas. we didn t have it before. we now have it. we have that air coverage so important to our manpower. we took down future expenditures for f.b.i. net, which was an expensive technology that costs billion dollars of dollars and it didn t work. it didn t meet our needs. we re replacing it with technology like mobile radar systems and things of that sort that really will allow us to sustain our coverage at that border. now, one of the things we re worried about is if the house passed budget is passed into law, it is not a good budget for homeland security. indeed representative peter king, who is from here, republican, chair of the homeland security committee said it s not good to allow us to move forward and continue the pathway the president set to make sure that border is secure. mike: are we really getting