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To address and clean up. now, we have a tremendous amount on the surface thats going to be addressed. it may not be causing problems today but two, three, four years down the road, we are going to see serious problems if this oil is not cleaned up. >> mike, you bring up some excellent points. just because one week the oil doesnt appear to be out there, doesnt mean we will be home free in the next week or the month after that. as you said, there is a lot of that sub-surface oil that we have to co...

Frustrating for you. >> reporter: unfortunately, perception is a strong point here. the rest of the nation may seem like just because the oil on the surface is gone. it kind of seems like bp wants to make the image that everything is back to normal. we are not even close to being back to normal. like i said before, we have 175 million gallons of oil unaccounted for thats sub surface, below the surface, that has the potential of contaminating a lot of vegetation and wetlands and marine life and a...

Whit who has a consulting firm to head up that plan. >> just because you cant see it on the surface doesnt mean its not underneath. michelle franzen, thank you. flash flooding swatched southern and central plains friday and more showers on the way today. downpours caused flooding across south dakota, including this spring creek where a dramatic rescue was caught on camera. the water swept a driver off the road and rescuers used a ladder to try to pluck that man from the dangerous current. mean...

Apparently washed to shore. turning the sand a shade of dark brown. clean up crews are on scene. setting up floating obstructions to try to protect the coast line and plan to dump chemicals from an airplane to help break up the oil. tonight, as they work on a plan to try to cap that leak, it is still unclear how the disaster has affected wildlife in the area. 2 the dead sea turtles watched up on mississippi beaches last few days. found no oil on the animals: chief fox report correspondent jonath...

That was going on. i was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him. >> never in any fear of danger of losing him. that doesnt necessarily mean, shepard, he was known and his whereabouts was known throughout the entire sequence of events. >> shepard: we gets reports of increased chatter in the terrorist community as we describe it any reports like that now? >> the white house will not acknowledge publicly that there is an increase in the number of or severity, potential severity of t...