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Before her in a legal dispute if she became a justice. >> bret: thank you. this is another fox news alert. the coast guard has just started burning an oil slick from a sunken rig in an effort to keep it from reaching the louisiana coast. correspondent chris gutierrez is live in venice, louisiana, with the story. good evening. >> hello. we got the confirmation from the coast guard minutes ago. huge development today when you consider that the size of that oil slick has grown now to 600 miles in c...

Orleans, louisiana. all right, set the details here on this plan to ignite the oil slick. >> reporter: well, contessa, that burn was supposed to be starting about now. were still waiting for confirmation from the u.s. coast guard as to whether it actually did begin. all the signs were for go. were presuming that its under way. if not, itll happen shortly. what theyre trying to do is get rid of the thickest oil thats out there in the gulf by burning it. what theyre doing is coralling some of that...

Fire-resistant booms and then taken to a remote area where it was prepared to be set on fire. its happening so far from shore people wont be able to see it and because of the wind direction, officials dont think anybody will be affected by smoke or the particulate matters that comes from the fires. officials say this is actually safer environmentally to burn it than leaving the oil on the water where it could affect marine life there and also be a threat to the shoreline in the days to come. its...

And fox news alert, we are getting new details this hour on how a giant oil spill off of louisianas coast is growing. and could reach shore they say say -- they say by this saturday, which is exactly what authorities are trying to avoid. take a look at how far this thing is spreading in the gulf of mexico, some 1800 square miles. look at this. look at it. and a change in the wind direction may push it close to shore. government weather trackers now saying we are anticipating on shore impact, no ...

Daytona beach, jacksonville, that line of storms still has to go through your area today. well also see stormy weather up and down the east coast. the slight risk area in the yellow. yesterday we had the white color painted on this. theres three different ranges, yellow is slight, and medium is high. yesterday that was a high risk and the forecast did come true, unfortunately. >> bill karins, thank you. as for the latest updates on the southeast weather system, to track the forecast where you ...

Forecast for you, head to weather.com. icelands two major airports are shut down for the second day in a row. now even though iceland is home to the volcano that put air travel on hold, the country had not been affected by the ash and thats because winds have been carrying the debris clouds away from iceland south to europe. but a change of wind direction forced authorities to close down its airspace on friday. uribe pen flight schedules are pretty much back to normal. the british newspaper ...

Yesterday. as we mentioned it was a high risk. only happens about two or three times a season. unfortunately, it was pretty much as expected. >> yeah, well, you had that up and had that big, huge white block right in the center, mississippi, alabama, you hit it. >> our friends in tennessee werent hit quite as bad. some arp yaz just get hit and some dont. >> bill karins, thanks for that. and if any of you have pictures or video in the storm and its aftermath, wed like to see them. always rememb...

Paris and maine, also mountains of new hampshire and vermont, you will see some snow. its a raw day elsewhere across new england and connecticut. down through new york city, temperatures climbing to about 50, maybe 40s most of the day. more rain for texas and oklahoma. this system does not want to let up. well be seeing drenching conditions from oklahoma city to austin, texas, and certainly into dallas and more rain back out towards new mexico. mountain snow there as well. further to the north w...

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