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Catch. is there much oil in the marshes? >> no, no, theres not really a whole lot right now. >> reporter: its becoming increasingly hard to find the oil. we surveyed the marshes and saw none. in a flight to the rig site with the coast guard, there was no oil to be seen. >> its becoming a very elusive bunch of oil for us to find and do anything about. >> reporter: two weeks ago, skimmers picked up about 25,000 barrels of oily water in one day. last thursday, they picked up a total of just 200 bar...

On through with the relief well, drilling into the well and intersecting it and filling it up with cement. so all of that playing out beginning early next week. >> david, you went to the rig site. tell us what you saw. >> well, we flew over the site with the coast guard. we saw all of the pieces coming back into place, the drilling rigs and all the vessels associated with that work thats going on out there. one thing we did not see, though, the huge patches of black oil that sort of has become t...

Pie here. >> key lime pie in your future. stephanie abrams, thanks so much. crews drilling those critical relief wells are forced to evacuate as bonnie now closes in on the gulf. as we heard from stephanie there, its really booking that way, from where she is, but how big of a problem is it for people there? >> reporter: you may see some ships behind me coming back into safe harbor, they essentially stopped working yesterday in advance of this storm. the rig site itself is being evacuated toda...

All the equipment thats down there with can stand it. >> ed lavendera, we appreciate you, ed. well check in with you again. as ed said, we dont have a real time line but we could get a better idea. we expect to hear from thad allen, the one in charge of the whole response down there, retired admiral thad allen. when we do hear from him, well take that live if he comes up here in the next couple of hours. but we expect some kind of update from him and maybe well know a lot more about the time lin...