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Becomes pretty problematic. >> shepard: there is lots of wave action out there. admiral allen says those conditions are also delaying a new containment vessel calls the he election. helix. admiral allen said today that will not happen. he also talked about progress on the relief wells that officials say will be the only permanent solution to the oil leak. if they work. phil keating live in grand isle, louisiana tonight. phil, whats the latest on those relief wells? >> shep, those relief wells ne...

Alex came through and moved you on and how is the weather now for skimming. >> actually good. lets look at the gulf of mexico, flight, last night it was absolutely glass out there. this morning, a little bit more wave action but, still, minimal. the wave size, very small, and, the skimming operations are expected to be up full bore and are about halfway yesterday after being basically cut off and shut down for two days, because of hurricane and tropical storm alex and there was a lot of bad weat...

They are testing out just how affecting the swimming slots in the ship can be. it can skim 400,000 to 500,000 barrels a day. keep in mind the top end estimate is 60,000 barrels a day in the gulf of mexico. so if this ship works it will beive. and for us. blue skies behind me. and coming down, i cant believe it. there is a low pressure system 100 miles arund the deepwater horizon site . that is possibly causing a lot of reason and higher wave action out there on the site today . that has conseq...

Youve got convection right over these boats that are out there trying to suck the oil and natural gas out. youve got lightning everywhere out there. now, hail storms dont really happen in hurricanes, because its a warm thing. so were not worried about really severe weather. but certainly you could get wind and we do know there are waves out there, waves 6 to 9 feet. when they get to 12 feet, all operations have to stop, so at least not everything is done right now. but the oil burn. you know, th...

Dont think theyll see those sustained winds over the oil spill. thats good news that at least they can keep all the equipment and ships out there. another thing it could do, that we think it will, is bring up some wave action here. in a sense thats good because that would kind of break up the oil spill a little bit and hess disperse it. but unfortunately, we think with the persistent evil winds into that area that is going to start to bring that oil spill a little bit further inland than it norm...

Theres cancun, the yucatan peninsula. ill draw it all the way back for brownsville and new orleans and pensacola, florida. we expect it to make landfall south of brownsville. it could make landfall as a category 1 hurricane. although its nowhere near the oil slick, its going to have strong winds. theyll be a little bit less here. less and less. but theyre still going to be here. there will still be winds at 25 miles per hour for three days. you do the math, how long that blow and blow and blow -...

Had a great time. the red flags you see flying behind us means theres high surf and thats advising people to stay out of the gulf. >> so -- just explain to us the storms path is not coming towards florida as we now understand it. but the high winds already are severe enough that you cant do anymore skimming. does that mean the beach can be cleaned on the beach itself? you cant stop it from getting closer to the beach. >> thats right. theres too much wave action for the skimming. what we do have ...

Water, the stronger the storm is going to be. now this is the latest projected path from the national hurricane center. notice how wide that cone of uncertainty is. it goes from all the way north of corpus christi down to throughout much of northern mexico. heres why the cone is so wide. the computer models have been all over the place. and every time we get a run of these, four times a day, these lines have been zig-zagging all over the place. and weve seen the trend up to the north. if that en...

Campechie, then eventually into the gulf of mexico. very warm water and minimal shear ahead of this. the forecast for this one from the national hurricane center shows this storm is expected to gain some strength and were talking about winds going up to 100 miles per hour as we get into early wednesday morning. lets fast-foorward. youll see this big white shaded area, thats called the cone of uncertainty. uncertain? absolutely. were talking about a rotating storm on a spinning planet. a lot can ...

Tonight. the more time it spends over water, the stronger the storm is going to be. this is the latest projected path from the hurricane center and notice how wide that cone of uncertainty is. it goes from corpus christi. the computer models have been all over the place. and every time we get a run of these four times a day these lines have been zigzagging all over the place. weve seen this trending further up to the north. and if that ends up happening, this would have a little bit of inner act...