now. so far, no one has been able to contact them. at least two others escaped. this is happening at the dotik. mine operated by alliance coal company. your seafood, your summer vacation at the beach, how about the offshore drilling controversy. an environmental and economic tragedy moving through the gulf. an underwater oil leak that could devastate the coast. the coast guard says it may be five times what they have been saying, 210,000 gallons a day. the first test went well to burn off some of the surface oil. more fires could be lit later today. a b.p. executive says he will take the military up on their offer to help to sop up as much oil as possible before it hits the coast. the oil will make things tough on seafood fans. some shrimpers are going out right now just to try and beat the oil slick. 15 miles from shore, that s about how far away the massive oil slick is from the gulf coast. it is moving closer by the minute. cnn s reynolds wolf fllive in venice, louisiana
so be aware of that. we re not quite clear with this unsettled weather pattern. so let s go to the weather maps. we ll take a look at future cast and show you. future cast is showing us that by the afternoon hours at around the 3:00 hour we can expect to see some rain moving in and maybe even at that point we could see some heavier rainfall and maybe even a storm popping up. so we ll watch that closely. and as we progress into the 7:00 hour, still lingering wet weather in the forecast there. 2:00 tuesday morning, it s still sticking around. so as you move into the early hours of tuesday and get ready for your commute, you may have to be concerned but its all out of here by the time we hit the 9:00 hour on tuesday. ridge of high pressure building in after that. and we ll get back to some sunshine. temperatures right now, 54 degrees at d.c. we have 52 at baltimore. 54 at dulles. and 52 degrees at gaithersburg. and for today, temperatures are going to be in the low 70s, pretty m
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