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It and -- it can push the oil up on beaches further than planned. pluses and minuses to the storm. >> jon: there have been a lot of those since this spill began more than three months ago. allen acknowledged how difficult the whole experience has been. >> this has been extremely frustrating time for the entire country, especially the people of the gulf coast. i share their frustration. i dont think anybody should be happy when oil is on the water. that said, we have gone almost a week now with a...

Of be coming into the waters around the text coastline? >> my independenting is we have had tar balls in a couple places in the boulevard coastline. some have the characteristics of this spill and some have not. those that have exhibits characteristics of oil that would have been far weathered than it was having gone that far. were looking at the fact of whether or not vessels working in the area transmitted oil out there and had it come ashore. that said, we set up an incident command in galves...

Bolivar peninsula. some have had the characteristics of the spill and some have not. the one with the characteristics exhibit characteristics of oil that has been weathered. were looking at the fact that whether vessels in the area have inadvertently transmitted oil and have it come ashore. that said, taking no chances, we is have set up an incident command posted in galveston, our folks are in touch with the general land office and the incident commander has been in touch with governor perrys o...

>> well, i think its worth it certainly, remember you not only are going to catch more oil but youre also going to stop using dispersants. at depths so youre getting two, if all this works so well know if it works in the next two or three days. you can look at the video and see how much has to be done and the views are not very easy, its obstructed by all the oil so its an incredibly difficult procedure, thats where the risk is, in the unknown. im sure theyve planned all of the contingencies. bu...

Of you in the oval office and we have a picture with you flying with the president in his airplane, is that right? i think it was marine one, and the intensity -- here it is. weve got it up on the screen. there it is right there. can we bring that one up. that is is marine one? its hard for me to tell if its the back of the plane or the helicopter? >> its marine one. >> tell me whats going on here. did you think you would be at this point in your career, coming face to face with the president no...

Bp says high winds caused the containment cap to wobble today, leading to a slight drop in oil collection. meanwhile admiral thad allen says skimming capability has increased five-fold since the beginning of june. even so, bobby jindal says local parishes are still waiting for their cleanup equipment. and a new forecast by noaa says theres an 80% choice that the oil will reach miami -- thats right, miami -- by the middle of august. its already made its way to the panhandle of florida where a new...

Warned that skimming vessels and critical ships will need to flee the theater in advance. >> were looking at gale force winds, the storm moving that way you start moving. if you want, a clear delynn nation straight to the storm, you may be too late. everybody needs to understand during the time theyre evaluating, there wont be any containment on the well at that time. >> if expected, more than half a million barrels could leak during that time. >> in the last two weeks weve increasing the skimmi...

A couple of travel announcements. secretary napolitano and assistant secretary to the president for energy and climate change, carol brown, are returning to the gulf next week to continue their inspection and oversight of the response. i will be down there and participate in meetings with them. then on tuesday, the vice president will be traveling to the region to assess efforts to counter the oil spill. we will visit our unified area command in new orleans and also visit the florida panhandle, ...

The goal is over this week and into next week to create a command and control structure and backbone to utilize all those 2,000 vessel opportunities out there. that reflects a strange in situation in both the supply and demand of assets. most recently earlier this week we announced the new flow rate numbers and as you know, we think it is somewhere around 35,000 is the most probable but the range goes up to 60,000 barrel as day at the high end of the scientific evaluations. to that end we need t...

Peninsula there. some of them had the characterestics of this bill and some have not. those who had the characteristics of this bill exhibits characteristics of oil that would be far weathered havish gone that far. whether or not vessels working in this area may have inadvertently transmitted oil out there and come it come ashore. a post in galveston and joint information center there. our folks are in touch with the texas general land office and our incident commander there has been in touch wi...