you have beaumont and corpus christi and port arthur and houston into louisiana. this was just -- in the words of one oil analyst, satan could not have timed this any better. >> hey, tom, how are they planning to get the fuel moving over to the east coast again? >> reporter: so they are using rail lines, they are trying to make up what was in that pipeline, which is now shut down, trying to make that up with rail deliveries but of course that's going to take time. we could be seeing these refineries con strained output, a third of the oil refineries strained in the output for weeks on end. >> tom costello, live in we that he is da, thank you very much. live to beaumont to check back in on that town incredibly hard hit, still without running water. we have a live report after the break plus today's big picture.