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Mess as he put it we have been watching this cabin cruiser over there 40-foot boat and the owner is out of the country. they try to tie it down a little better. one of the pilings appears to be coming loose and that boat could see some damage as well. you see the causeway over there that was shut down earlier today to anyone coming in or leaving. closed. the island closed because of conditions on the causeway. and on the approaches to the causeway. and earlier today we also learned that the powe...

>> do you need assistance or for the moment are you only staying in the area. >> we are staying in the area to verify the blackout. >> what kind of problem, generators? we got a call from a relative of the crewmember that said during the dinner everything fell on his head. >> no, negative. we have a blackout and we are verifying the conditions on board. >> some passengers said you made them put on life jackets. is this correct? >> i repeat, we are verifying the conditions of the blackout. >> now...

Irene is expected to reach land between 10 a.m. and noon tomorrow. the hurricane could be a category 3 storm by then. mandatory evacuations were issued earlier today for all along the east coast. officials say this storm has the potential to affect 65 million people. for all the latest on hurricane irene and the state of things in north carolina, we go to fox news very own jonathan serrie, who is by in atlantic beach, north carolina. >> reporter: good evening. you can see the conditions continue...

Reports of fatalities or injuries. and the debris starts flying around at 150 miles per hour, there is bound to be serious damage. adrian, with our kdfw affiliate is 50 miles south of dallas. >> reporter: we are in avalon, about an hour south of dallas and you can see, there is plenty of cleaning up to do. the folks who live here are just trying to catch their breath. and, trying to clean up all of this damage and debris and you can see for yourself, how much damage was left behind and this is t...

Need be. to a hurricane. so, that is not lost upon us. we are very focused on the fact that there is a storm out there, and we might have to change gears. rather rapidly. >> reporter: earlier today, officials showed us containment efforts on the bay the other side of grand isle, the entryway to louisianas fragile marshland and barges are set up 300 yards offshore, linked together and creating a barrier to try and stop the oil from penetrating any further. the barges are carrying huge pilings and...

Operations we saw yesterday in the other side of us here on grand isle, there are a number of large barges set up some 300 yards off shore in the gateway to louisianas fragile marshlands. theres heavy equipment set up there, cranes, huge pilings. 18 wheelers on some of those barges. theyre known as vac trucks because they have huge vacuums on board with hoses to suck up the oil off the surface of the water as that oil approaches the barges which are linked together to form a barricade against th...

Need be. to a hurricane. so, that is not lost upon us. we are very focused on the fact that there is a storm out there, and we might have to change gears. rather rapidly. >> reporter: earlier today, officials showed us containment efforts on the bay the other side of grand isle, the entryway to louisianas fragile marshland and barges are set up 300 yards offshore, linked together and creating a barrier to try and stop the oil from penetrating any further. the barges are carrying huge pilings and...

Workers safely. bp says it hopes to shrink that time down to two days. but any day that the containment operations arent going on, there are tens of thousands of barrels of thick crude oil that are spewing into the gulf. there are anyway, but the number also go up dramatically if they have to stop containment. they will if that storm heads this way. >> harris: you know, we gave some pretty amazing numbers as i was tossing to you out there. we understand how much oil and how much crude now potent...

>> well, right now you can imagine a lot of people have been out of work for a couple months now because of the impact of the oil and none of ous can go two months worth without any paychecks at this point. there is a lot of frustration and anger at bp and really their main message here is can this company get anything right? meantime, theyre trying to move ahead with this barge barrier plan that they have been talking about. first, the state criticized the federal government for not moving quic...

Federal government to approve the barge plan. it took several meetings with federal officials to get some traction and it wasnt until a face-to-face meeting between president obama and governor jindal last week to get the green light. >> we have got to be creative in narrowing those passes so we can concentrate the limited resources we do have. >> oil can be spotted 12 miles north of the marshes here. >> we have 70 barges and we are going to be lit up like a christmas tree and working around the...