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Die. as the winter progresses, the father will be severely tested. the mother will be tested as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now, and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over, the penguins fathers will ha...

She must eat soon or she will die. as the winter progresses, the father will be severely tested. the mother will be tested as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over,...

She must eat soon or she will die. as the winter progresses, the father will be severely tested. the mother will be tested as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now, and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over...

The mother will be tested, as well. her return trip to the sea is considerably more difficult than the original march to the nesting ground. it is colder now, and she will have lost almost a third of her body weight producing the egg. she is literally starving. of course, the fathers are nearly starving, too, but for them, a meal is far off in the distance. by the time their vigil atop the egg is over, the penguin fathers will have gone without food of any kind for 125 days and they will have en...

Whole system. >> reporter: the shores are also nesting ground for protected shore birds and turtles. i got to handle a few sea turtles rescued last year. they are truly remarkable creatures. turtles that are born on this beach, do they come back to this beach? >> theyre imprinted here when they hatch. >> so they dont have a choice. their nesting ground or not, theyre going to come back here? >> absolutely. >> reporter: the beach is also shared by tourists who will see less of everything this sum...

These florida beaches are spectacular. >> reporter: the goal is to get the beaches back to their pre-oil spill form. but layers of oil still exist deep in the sand. and these machines are only allowed to dig down six inches in this wildlife protected area. >> theres a lot more going on the sand than meets the eye. >> its very active substrate. its very diverse, what we cant see is a lot of other critters literally that are below us right now that all drive this whole system. >> reporter: all of ...

Have on an island thats under water? this is ridiculous, the comment that is she made that said we ought to get a bunch of volunteers together to put the pipe together. its not a tinker toy set. its a pipe you could drive your car in that has to be weld and slit into the ocean two miles out and transported to the island. its going to take days in good weather. >> any progress today on any front that you saw in your realm? >> no. >> in plaquemines parish. >> were at war says the president. yet th...

President. yet this lady, who thinks we can help with volunteers putting the pipe together, has the ability to stop this island. the sad part is we got oil coming back our way. theres a nesting ground, 1,000 feet away from where we stopped. by friday, 3,000 feet would have protected. if that island gets infected with oil, the blood is on her hands. she stopped it. >> when you hear that a fisherman in alabama committed suicide -- again, we dont know what goes through somebodys mind. we cant say n...

Those senior executives at bp, soon, again, and well bring it to you live. a live picture of a marine standing outside of that main door, and you can imagine just the gaggle, as suzanne malveaux was describing of the reporters and journalists waiting with baited breath. this is the first time the president has met face-to-face with folks from bp, including ceo, tony hayward. meantime, if it you are wondering what else could go wrong for bp in the gulf on this 58th day of the oil disaster, well...

Shoring up the beach on the other side, which is a fertile nesting ground for birds and sea turtles as well. a lot of activity bracing for impact. in the event the oil slick or sheen from the leak comes this way. so far they have collected samples. those samples at the top are tested. we havent heard of the results at this point. theres a lot of concerned about the tourism industry. hotels and restaurateurs are concerned about what this is going to do to summer months as the leak continues to sp...