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This is not fun. >> reporter: drew, one thing to mention to you and to viewers across america, if you have plans to come to the mississippi coastline bishgs all mean, keep on coming oun down. i'll tell you, not one sign of oil along this coast here in biloxi, even gulfport, conditions are picture perfect. let's contrast that with some of the heavier oil we've seen way down in the extreme southern louisiana, the marshlands and the parish, an entirely different situation than here. here, nothing whatsoever. in parts of alabama we've soon a little tar balls come on the beach, but here, things are...

Go back out. safety is the absolute first priority. on all of these crews. >> reporter: but with this kind of extreme heat expected through the weekend, and with no end to the cleanup in sight, workers can expect a long, hot summer ahead. >> reynolds joins us live from bilo biloxi, mississippi. reynolds, a lot of people are asking me, are the beaches really clean? can i really come? is the water clean? >> reporter: well, the beaches are open. the thing is, you're going to have moments where you might have a plume that comes ashore. we saw that yesterday in parts of orange beach not far from pe...

Gulf. president obama is expected to discuss the disaster with the british prime minister david cameron during a phone call this morning at 11:00 eastern. according to bp, almost 42,000 claims have been submitted. about half those claims have been settled totaling more than $53 million. bp could decide to suspend dividends to shareholders by july 27th. the company hopes to use a secondary containment cap as early as monday. potentially capturing an additional 5,000 to 10,000 barrels a day. well, rising temperatures are now complicating the cleanup efforts. heat-related illnesses are now the ma...