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the president visits mississippi, alabama and florida over the next two days. tuesday night he goes on television to update the nation on how the u.s. government is responding to this growing environmental catastrophe. cnn plans to carry his address live at 8:00 eastern. the following day president obama meets with bp chairman carl hendrick sponburg at the white house. today republicans are blasting him, the president, for not doing this sooner. >> he could have picked up the phone and called the ceo of bp sooner than 50 days. i'm glad he's meeting with the chairman of bp next week...

Guard officials, and they say he'll have a response by tomorrow night. all of this is because up to twice as much oil aflowing from that broken well as originally thought. and bp's containment cap is catching a lot of it but missing a lot of it as well. meantime, a stainless steel box about the size of a refrigerator washed up on a florida beach today. it is marked bp and it is leaking oil. but it is not known if it came from the doomed rig. so we go now to chris lawrence. he's in grand isle, louisiana. let's start with this box that washed up. what is it? do we know, chris? >> reporter: we kn...

But it is not known if it came from the doomed rig. what is it, do we know, chris? >> reporter: we know it is a stainless steel container, don. it washed up in panama city beach, florida. it washed ashore this morning. we have spoke on the the sheriff there as well as one of our i reporters, ben wally. he says it washed up in the shallow water. some of the officials got a crane and dragged it up on the beach. that is when they noticed it will still oozing a little bit of oil. they told the swimmers to get out of the water. from what we have been told and what our i reporter has seen, it is sev...