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Oil. streaks of emulsified crude bleeding into the water surrounded by oil sheen. the strands of oil were heading toward an island and there are no response vessels. at another location, there is even more oil. rows and rows of it. where has the rest of the oil gone? experts say its evaporated and been eaten by microbes, but hundreds of thousands of barrels are still lurking in the water. >> you should continue to worry about the oil that may be in the swamps and oil thats in the water below the...

Towards an island and there are no response vessels. at another location, there is even more oil. rows and rows of it. here there are skimmers. where has the rest of the oil gone? experts say its evaporated and been eaten by microbes and that hundreds of thousands of barrels are still lurking in the water. >> should continue to worry about the oil that may be in the swamps and oil that is in the walter, but below the surface. >> reporter: and experts say worry about how all that oil mixed with a...

All of the vessels back out to the site. 65 of them evacuated the area, moved to safer waters in the approaching storm that fizzled out. now that its gone, they are going back to the site. they will all be on scene by tomorrow and it will take a couple of days to reconnect the equipment and drilling rigs, and the coast guard says by friday they could begin the process to permanently kill this well. the trick is they need ten days of good weather starting next friday. they are keeping their eye o...

Allens letter to bp laying out the end game for this well telling them exactly how he wants them to do this, what sort of time schedules he wants them to meet and how they are supposed to respond when they see something. >> david mattingly down in new orleans. david, thank you very much. were going to get more on this now. on the phone with susdaryl, the director of the petroleum engineering lab at louisiana state university. first of all, sir, this is seepage from the gulf floor. is that right ...

And say that makes sense. we can save money, give everybody a good deal, locally and the tourists and they can get a room at half price. then we dont have people on the unemployment lines. instead, they get to work. they enjoy working out here. we have a great workforce on pensacola beach. they enjoy the locals and tourists coming here. >> you talked about that you havent had any oil come on this beach in a couple weeks. are there any concerns, have you gotten any warnings there are plumes heade...

But we are kind of in unchartered territory here. never seen dispersants used in this quantity, used underneath the water as they have been. the first time thats occurred. we dont know what exactly that means. a lot of the oil we havent seen on the surface, perhaps because of these, undersea dispersants used. but that oil is still out there, will it just be churned up and disappear, where microbes are growing, will they attack the oil under the water and deal with it naturally. it is possible. b...

Can look at this and say that makes sense. we can save money, give everybody a good deal, locally and the tourists and they can get a room at half price. then we dont have people on the unemployment lines. they enjoy working out here. we have a great workforce on pensacola beach. >> you talked about that you havent had any oil come on this beach in a couple weeks. are there any concerns, have you gotten any warnings there are plumes headed? there was the big one they were worried about a coup of...

Shallower waters apparently trying to get away from the deeper waters where the oil was. they have also noticed that there are areas where the amount of oxygen in the water is strangely low and going into the summer months that could be bad. it could lead to massive fish kills, so they are watching that very closely. again, that oxygen being depleted because of all the microbes that are exploding right now that feed on this oil, theres so much of it for them to eat. theres an abundance of those ...

I was just down there last week, and theres a sense there that people who make their living off an actual environment from working with a natural environment, theres a lot of despair. theres -- this is 13 times more oil, according to the estimates, than the "exxon valdez" released. its being released a mile deep, as everyone knows by now. the normal processes that break down oil, the sun, the waves, the microbes, nobody knows how well theyre going to work because the ocean is layered, and a lot ...

Possibly the middle of august, and then a number of weeks after that, they would go in with cement and mud to finally plug that leaky well, once and for all. even then, its not over. its estimated as many as 172 millions of gallons of crude have already leaked out into the gulf of mexico. so in the months and potentially years after that youd have crude in the beach and gulf trying to clean up the residual oil. >> juliet: its protecting some of the waterways with a new type of barrier, how does ...