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Information as we get it. from watching this m pprogram, know that bh hasnt been forthcoming with information. no oil seems to be coming out of the well. the oil is not pouring into the water. where exactly is it? all of the oil still out there, where is it? chad myers joins us right now. >> reporter: the thickest stuff is still well off shore and thats great news. obviously here is the shore and here is louisiana and back out towards texas. there is still a sheen in this entire area bound by th...

Where is it? chad myers joins us right now. >> reporter: the thickest stuff is still well off shore and thats great news. obviously here is the shore and here is louisiana and back out towards texas. there is still a sheen in this entire area bound by this big red line. most of the oil is well off shore. thats the best thing that we can talk about, how far away it is and where its going to be going. there is a loop current coming out of the caribbean and sometimes going all the way where the oil...

Is and where its going to be going. there is a loop current coming out of the caribbean and sometimes going all the way where the oil should be and then up into the northeast. that is not happening. thats not happening at all that way. its kind of cut off and coming up only to around cuba and then back to the florida keys. its circulating around and not getting the oil into the gulf stream. thats another fantastic development from mother nature. here we go. why do we carry about this? as it hits...

They hit the loop current and end up over there anyway after a couple months in the gulf. were preempting that. jeff joins us live from gulf stores, alabama. what are you learning about the prognosis of these sea turtles? >> well, andrea, to be truthful, the jury is out. our planet is home to six species, five frequent these waters. one, the kemp ridley is so endangered that the numbers were reduced to about 10,000 animals before the oil spill. theyre taking a multigenerational approach. we we...

Had to know and in his time off kept searching. he posted photos on scuba and travel websites where readers latched on to small details like the tail number of this plane. blue domes in the background of this photo. and finally when a woman surfing the net recognized the kids in this photoschultz tracked down nick who had lost the camera. apparently it got caught in the loop current traveling through the caribbean and the gulf of mexico before landing in the southernmost tip of florida. six mont...

Work? >> well, basically, the oyster machine is like a very large barn door, which is hinged at the bottom. and the action of the waves actually drive the oyster machine forwards and backwards. and you mentioned hydroelectric power. we have a couple of hydraulic pistons on this machine, which pumps high-pressure water. the high-pressure water then goes on shore and drives hydroelectric turbine. >> so basically, if im getting this straight, it creates this kind of a loop current between the wave ...

How about this? 300 more skimmers are headed to the gulf of mexico to help mop up all of that oil, right? about 550 are already there, trying to separate the oil from the water. the largest skimmer of , a converted cargo ship called "a whale." being tested to see how it can be. florida is far from being out of the woods on all of this. were now hearing the oil could reach more of that states coastline before it is all over. chad myers is here with us, tracking the winds. are we talking about t...

Little blow-up of thunderstorm activity because it made waves right where we dont want the waves, right over the oil area, three to five-foot waves today and the waves have been in this area for the past couple of days. this could be much more sinis r sinister. this could have a much bigger impact on where everything else goes, including the oil. this is whats called the loop current. it affects hurricanes and also affects the oil. this is part of the -- this area here looping around, water come...

This is going around here, one way or the other, spinning, spinning. and the loop current isnt picking up any oil right now. its traveling up through the florida keys and out into the gulf stream. the loop current turns into the gulf stream, depends on where it is. >> thanks a lot, chad myers, "off the radar." general david petraeus is back in charge in afghanistan. were going to go globe trotting next to see if he can turn the tide in that country.

There. youll notice you have some areas that are shaded in red and some that happen to be in orange. what this indicates is some areas obviously where we have the oil right along parts of the mississippi coast but whats more troubling is theres a chance now they believe that oil could get caught up in the loop current and possibly go to the dry tortugas and possibly the straits of florida and back over toward miami. were not talking about the thickest crude but some of the thinner emulsified oil...