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Is going to last, but, look at the map. starting on the left of your screen, the southern tip of texas to the louisiana state line, based on historical current, and weather patterns, that is being given a 0 to 40% chance some sort of oil, tar ball, tar mat, something will end up on the sandy beaches and the mouth of the mississippi river to the florida panhandle, 81 to 100% chance and a lot of the beaches already had their 100% chance and south, florida, naples, fort myers area, it look good bas...

The gulf today. we just got this video of the vice-president at the federal command center. thats where we find our own jonathan serrie with more. this is not good news about this storm. >> reporter: yeah, it certainly cant good news at all. in fact even here this morning at pensacola beach there was still heavy surf, much of it being a tebgted -- affected by weather patterns that are indirectly related to this topz storm to the south of us in the gulf. the vice-president is expected to visit he...

They are hopeful that mr. biden will take back to washington a sense of urgency of maintaining skimmers, heavy equipment and other measures to keep oil off of floridas beaches. now i wanted to show you video from overnight, a surreal sight as lesions of workers took to the shores of pensacola beach to cleanup tarballs. the red lights that you see are headlamps that the crews were wearing as they worked through the night. even after sunrise there were still crews on the beach and thick tarballs a...

That tar balls like these are washing ashore on the white sand of panama city east. the farther east oil reported so far in the disaster. they say the florida panhandle could experience more effects from the spill due to the current weather patterns i mentioned. im jamie colby, we are following the developing story on fox. meantime, we send you back to "cavuto on business." more headlines. 30 minutes away. keep it on fox. >> well, euro keeps cutting close benefits and the europeans keep protesti...

To stop before people could even assess what the real damage is and the weather plays a critical role in that particular mission. >> yeah, reynolds wolf keeping an eye on things. you were down at the gulf for awhile, as well. you know the weather was helping and it was hurting. it was strange that the weather patterns were keeping the oil in one place. it was keeping it from coming to the coast for at least a while. >> absolutely. yeah, flew over the spot where the deep water horizon sank, some ...

Estimated 5,000 barrels of oil every day in the gulf, weather patterns appeared to have held the resulting mass of water-born oil offshore for the most part in a moment. the people are taking no chances, planning locally to have secondary oh booms an opening of fingers of marsh to keep oil out of the wetlands and waterways. they included local fisherman to lay down what they think will be the shores last line of defense. why so important? consider this, from the exxon valdez that came ashore in ...

Mile below sea level. thats the hope. meantime, you pointed out before, there are reports of trace amounts of oil on beaches at barrier islands. i spoke with the sierra club and they said trace amounts in gulfport and ship islands where amounts found on the west part of that island. way out on chandelier island on louisiana coast. the oil slick held off by booms 50 or 100 miles offshore. its getting close. no one doubts theres going to be an oil landfall sometime in the next several days perhaps...

Happening, the slick is getting closer, but favorable weather patterns are continuing to hold the slick and its dangers offshore for at least another couple of day. it appears to be the case. trace amounts of oil have been found along the coast, barrier alands, mississippi coast and off the louisiana coast as well. the weather window has allowed those responding to do two things. basically to deal with the slick itself, the oil already in the water, by using chemical dispersants. about 60,000 ga...

Gulf of mexico, where heavy surf breached much of the inflatable oil containment boom installed last week. >> if we have high tides that we had lately and get oil on top of the high tide and wave action well have a natural barrier to prevent the oil coming over the island and encroaching on the backside as well. >> what is at stake are the dauphin island natural wildlife habitat and the tourist dependent economy. from the vacation rental home on the gulf side of the island, marty simmons watches...

Owns the pier. he has been in business there for roughly a quarter of a century. he weathered hurricane katrina but says this is different than a hurricane. a hurricane can destroy its pier hell have it rebuilt in four months. but if the waters are contaminated, there is nothing to fish for. he expects that this thing may drive him out of business, juliette. >> juliette: terrible. thanks very much. appreciate it. >> the oil slick already reaching shore in louisiana. but weather patterns could pl...