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The County's Health and Human Services Agency has issued a public health advisory, urging people to "exercise caution at local beaches and to avoid contact if...

Looking at 1,600 people and then some who are working on this response. some 5,500 gallons of oil has been recovered by a vessel. the real nastiness is about a quarter million pounds of oily debris that has been picked up along the shore. and that includes more than 13 barrels of tar balls. all of this following some prime california coastline. >> we have teams that are conducting manual removal. so theyre going out and physically removing product from the beach. they make sure theyre doing it a...

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For us. talk about the ongoing investigation into how this spill got started and the ongoing efforts. >> reporter: its a little of a good news/bad news story, yasmin. the good news is they have not seen oil on the water in the last several days. they also think the amount of oil spilled is considerably less than what they originally thought. they thought it would be 40,000 gallons, now is looks like its 30,000 gallons. the bad news is its coming ashore and making a mess. im in orange county, hun...

Answered the question. what we think is happening is he didnt take any action as far as we can tell other than a couple brand treats only after having been begged to by his staff and daughter. he didnt seem to have any issue with what was happening on capitol hill that day. a couple of the witnesses could tell us about january 6, what the president was doing and what he didnt do. >> okay. i have no issue with having you on. i will take issue if you are not here next sunday. just saying. thank yo...

Spread. even though the absolute amount of oil now seems to be less than originally feared, make no mistake, this is still a mess. >> the fish and sandpipers are still feeding out here. you cant smell it, but its nauseating. i cant imagine having to feed from the land and the sea. >> authorities are telling beachgoers not to touch the tar balls. they are not safe. this is toxic chemicals that you are handling. they are saying to report those. now theres a small army thats working on this cleanup...

California. thats a good thing to take off on here. theres hope as to whether or not we can figure out what happened. looks like a beautiful day. how is the beach behind you? >> its interesting. when you first get out here and first blush, it looks like a typical southern california day. the thing everybody comes here for. then you look closer. the beach is open but no one is in the water. thats because they are not allowing people in the water. theres a cleanup crew. you can see over my shoulde...

They think it would have happened during that time. we will hear some of the details that the coast guard officials revealed yesterday. >> as we develop targets of interest, vessels that may have done this, likely going to be a foreign vessel and what you will probably see moving forward and we anticipate is we board the vessels as we can and over time, it could be in the port of the nation. we will be ready to do that. that is something that will take time. >> reporter: you can imagine the numb...

Whiff of oil came through that door. >> reporter: today oil slicked animals are slowly being rescued, but it could be weeks, even months before the impact to wildlife is known. >> you have to pour all resources in to making sure that we mitigate the damage. >> reporter: with 25 miles of southern californias iconic coastline closed to fishing, today tar balls washed along shore in huntington and newport beaches. it is believed the leak occurred in a pipeline connecting the drill platform to the s...

Potentially even decades. >> reporter: water quality scientists are sick and tired of excuses for oil spills. >> these spills have occurred for as long as oil extraction has happened. and despite advances in technology, despite new regulations, this industry continues to skirt those regulations, ignore regulations and continues to pollute. >> reporter: the suffering from the oil spill crippling birds. their feathers gummed up with the tar-like toxic crude oil. it may be weeks before we know the ...