officials walk the shoreline daily on heightened alert. >> look when you're walking on this sand how it doesn't stick. look how it sticks when you walk into this. see the levels of coloration under it? >> reporter: they hope answers and supplies come sooner than oil. we have an update for you also on the condition of the bird you saw in the piece. the bird was actually found to have been coated with that oil. it was suffering from hypothermia and now will undergo rehabilitation. very similar fate that many other birds, many other forms of wildlife on the gulf coast have suffered since this oil spill first began. fredricka, back to you. >> thanks so much. hopefully that bird will be cleaned up and be reintroduced into another habitat. we know, of course, this oil spill is impacted by the weather. especially the wind and even the heat. there's been both of that. bonnie schneider is in the weather center. >> fredricka, you're right. the wind has acted as a steering mechanism to take it to some beaches and move it from others.