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California's governor has now declared a state of emergency over the massive offshore oil spill. right now hundreds of workers are trying to clean it up. and we have a look at just how big this spill is. officials are now saying 144,000 gallons may have leaked from an oil pipeline. the spill has forced several beaches to close. including huntington beach. that's where cnn's camila bernal is today. you're on the beach. what's happening around you? >> reporter: hey, ana, it's just an ongoing cleanup process. and anywhere you go on the beach, you'll be able to see it. of course, this beach is clo...

Leak says it first detected a problem saturday but documents show sightings were reported to authorities on friday. as for the cause, right now the leading theory is the anchor of a passing ship struck the pipeline leaving more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil to spew into the ocean putting wildlife and beach visitors in danger. cnn's sara sidner is in huntington beach, california, where cleaning up all that oil moves at a painstakingly thorough pace. >> reporter: we have now learned the company that owns the pipeline responsible for the california oil spill says it did not detect a leak unti...

Some of the numbers driving the coronavirus crisis. if you look at the case count, there's evidence of a leveling off of covid infections. we need to be careful. on sunday, 144,316 new infections, you see back a few days, line is way up here, you see a tapering off. let's hope that continues. 144,000 yesterday, one year ago, it was 34,000. even if we have a plateau or slow tapering off, we are in a much dire situation than we were one year ago. hospitalizations per 100,000 residents in your states, you do not want to be dark green, alabama, georgia, florida, kentucky, the highest hospitalizati...

Mississippi and alabama also bracing for storm surge. this is one to watch over the weekend. out west some 14,000 firefighters are facing changing weather conditions as they battle more than a dozen large wildfires pushing across california. today a fast moving fire was southwest of lake tahoe. it scored more than 144,000 acres and only 12% contained. a trump era border policy forcing asylum seekers to remain in mexico is not deterring swaths of migrants coming across the border. tonight stories of pain and danger for those making the treks from the border on mission texas. >> we come across p...

Would imagine, for those left behind. ., would imagine, for those left behind. . , would imagine, for those left behind. ., , . in the last few minutes we've had the latest numbers on coronavirus in the uk.. in terms of the number of cases, the uk recording another 38,046 cases, down slightly from yesterday's figures of 38,281 and 100 more people reported as having died within 28 days of testing positive for the disease. there we are, and let's look at the vaccination figures. people getting the first dose, another 55,000 getting the first dose of the vaccine, another 144,000 the second, so th...