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Take a look at this radar. tropical storm alex is gaining strength. now theres a hurricane watch issued for the coast of south texas and northeastern mexico. its track from yucatan headed for the texas/mexico border. forecasters say maximum sustained winds this morning were 60 miles an hour. of course the question is what kind of wave action might that bring to the area around the gulf oil spill. and the honest answer right now is nobody knows. and this has been aunpr unpredictable storm. so the...

>> like you said, best case scenario, it dies out and doesnt keep going but besides that scenario the best case scenario for where it would go as far as affecting the oil, where would that be? >> great question. the thing that we do not want with this storm is we dont want the storm to actually get closer to lets say if the oil slick happens to be in this area, let me draw this out. t.j., i dont know if you can see it from where you happen to be but the viewers at home certainly can. if you had ...

Towards the oil area. lets do this quickly. the strongest part will be in the northeast and southeast quadrants. thats the worst case scenario. it would be better if it were to move over the oil as opposed to further west. you have the wind building up on the east side of the storm. that mechanism could push much of this closer to the shoreline. dying out would be the greatest scenario whatsoever. with the heavier wave action, that will bring recovery efforts to a screeching halt. >> well, a gre...

Coast as a tropical storm as we get into early on sunday morning. then going right across the yucatan, only 24 hours across if it continues at this rate, at this path. and then strengthens back to a tropical storm as we get into tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. possibly with winds of 70 miles an hour. gusts of 85. theres a big cone of uncertainty. theres a chance the storm could move more north. it may stay further south and stay towards mexico. or it could die out all together under the yucata...

Of time. jamie hinton has a battle plan to block oil from encroaching into his community and he took us out to show us. yes, there is containment boom but is he not trusting it. >> you can see here just with the little wave action weve got now, it is almost going over the top of it as it is. >> reporter: thats why hinton mobilized nine barges at the mouth of the bay. but to get that line of defense in place, he had to fight and he was eager to show us why. the bay is home to an estuary an leads ...

Im going to be here in lafeat, louisiana during my whole show talking to the workers here in the bayou, and bringing that to you guys. >> cant wait. a ali velshi in the cnn "newsroom." people in one community got tired of waiting for protection from the oil and took matters in their own hands. here is mary snow. >> reporter: jamie hinton has a plan, and he took us out to show us. yes, there is containment boom, but hes not trusting it. >> you can see here, just with the low wave action weve got ...

This cane like grass that grows in clumps, basically these islands of cane, and when you look at it, shane, you can see some discoloration, is that mud or is that oil? >> this area right here has been impacted already, it was impacted probably two to three weeks ago, not as heavy as some of the other areas, but it was impacted. >> reporter: basically theyre using the dual boom system, first they lay down that sort of hard plastic boom, its either yellow or red, its designed to repel that oil and...

Decided on the barges. with a we had seen happening the whole time was all the boom was being rendered ineffective due to wave action. >> mike: so i know you have had the cooperation and support of governor bob riley in alabama who said to you guys go get it, right? >> yes, sir. initially everybody was reluctant to support us. we had issues fighting through the bureaucracy. even at one point for the state, and the federal level of the unified command. but then the state used up on us and we stil...

On the barges and what we had seen happening this whole time was that all the boom was being rendered ineffective due to wave action. >> so i know that youve had the cooperation and support of governor bob riley in alabama. he hes kind of said to you guys, comb get it. >> yes, sir. >> initially everybody was reluctant to support us. we, we had issues fighting through the bureaucracy, even at that, at one point to the state and the federal level, but then the state eased up on us and we still had...

Decided on the barges. with a we had seen happening the whole time was all the boom was being rendered ineffective due to wave action. >> mike: so i know you have had the cooperation and support of governor bob riley in alabama who said to you guys go get it, right? >> yes, sir. initially everybody was reluctant to support us. we had issues fighting through the bureaucracy. even at one point for the state, and the federal level of the unified command. but then the state used up on us and we stil...