i find that the oil is still here. it's brutal. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: not at all like we saw last summer. it crumbles like a cookie almost. surprisingly, bp crews aren't even trying to pick up all the oil. bp has been directed to meet a government set standard of less than 1% visible coverage. >> within that section and within that entire section of beach, there has to be less than 1% coverage. >> reporter: so out of every thousand feet of beach, you can still have ten feet of oil? >> over that entire thousand feet, yes. >> reporter: that sounds like a lot to me. >> it's the standard that was determined. >> well, now migratory birds are nesting on the still contaminated island and others in the gulf. a year ago, oil was thick on the surface in the local marshes. today, in many of those same marshes, it's still thick, but now it's on the bottom. some beaches are suffering from
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