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Coast guard and bp contractors, intent on moving the barges far inland for protection. too far away, he says, to redeploy quickly after the storm. there have already been a couple of tropical systems getting into the gulf this summer and each time it changes the wind patterns and blows the oil right into this area. and each time those systems havent been anywhere near here. bonnie is expected to be a direct hit. >> booms and barges dont stop storm surge. booms and barges become victims of storm ...

Tropical systems getting into the gulf this summer, and each time it changes the wind patterns and blows the oil right into this area. each time, those systems have not been anywhere near there, and bonnie is expected to be a direct hit. >> well, booms and barges dont stop storm surge. booms and barges become victims of storm surge. >> reporter: i asked admiral allen about the plan, he says it was driven about the experience in hurricane katrina. >> im still haunted by the spector of flying in o...

The midwest, this is out of cal ma zoo where we had winds in excess of 60 miles an hour, trees uprooted, out outages, and reports of tornadoes in the state of michigan. so two stories that we are following, the threat for severe weather again today, guys, and the heat, it just continues. its -- >> bill: its been here for weeks now. some people are talking about the jetstream moving north, as far north as 500 miles, which would move the heat from north carolina into places like new york. is that ...

Always have a backup plan for everything. that what if instance. i would think, i would hope to think a company worth $65 billion would have a backup plan for the what if this disaster happens. >> reporter: now, for the time being, the state of mississippi is saying basically jump in. the waters fine. they have been conducting some water tests and no traces of oil along the coastline or barrier islands and doing testing on vegetation and tissue samples from crabs. things are picture perfect. bon...

Weve been following. crews trying to stop the massive oil leak in the gulf of mexico in an effort to try to contain that oil, this sounded so promising, but tonight it is running into very big problems. bp is saying that there is an ice build-up inside this containment dome that is preventing them from placing that dome directly over the leak on the ocean floor as they had planned to do. now they are troubleshooting to try to determine what they can do next, saying the box plan has not completel...

British meteorologist office said they saw a new cloud over the ocean. icelanders say its probably a change of wind patterns that moved ash in a different direction over the ocean. nothing to do with new eruptions. theres been this continuous relatively mild eruption here for the past few days but nothing new is happening in the volcano. as you pointed out, there is seismic activity but related to that continuing eruption. theres nothing to indicate deep inside theres more explosive power waitin...

Saying that half of the continents formally scheduled airline flights could resume tomorrow. several european carriers, conducting test flights, today without any incident. now, this combined with better wind patterns, predicted for tomorrow, now emboldening safety officials though the volcano shows no sign of letting up. the airlines have been exerting serious pressure to get back to business and the international air transport association says the industry is losing more than $200 million a da...

Investigation. nature hides what it has in store for us. but people are looking at it very carefully, and im sure theyre looking at the seismic waves and analyzing the gases that are coming out and trying to estimate how deep the magma chamber is and how fast its rising up to the surface. we cant predict how long its going to last. >> is there anything to be done to alter the pattern of an ash cloud much like the concept of cloud seeding for precipitation? is there anything like that out there s...

They can peer into the heart of it, molten rock surging up. its thought to have popped the ice like a champagne cork, the force creating these massive plumes, a mix of rock, sand and glass. >> if can you imagine throwing a bucketful of beach sand into the engine of a big airplane, can you imagine its not going to do the airplane any good. >> reporter: its like a supersonic sandstorm. too fine for a planes radar to pick up but capable of jamming engines. >> it will score the rapidly-turning engin...

Flying near the ash, the authorities are dead right in doing what theyre doing. >> reporter: the weather forecast shows no change in wind patterns for the next few days. >> we are locked into that same pattern, so weve got that northwest to southeast flow. so if we continue getting eruptions, and we keep that wind flow exactly the same, the exact same areas are going to continue to get hard hit. >> reporter: on british tv tonight, this is the travel warning viewers heard. >> the latest forecast ...