Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100808:18:04:00
Michael blum, professor at tulane university in new orleans, but he said all that's certain is the form of the oil has shifted dispersed. oil is still oil. it's just in a different form. so, how much is still there and how damaging is it potentially? >> i think it's important to understand this was the largest response to an environmental disaster. we had over 6,000 vessels, more than 40,000 people, and the goal was to keep the oil off the beaches and out of the marshes and the estuaries. some of it did get on the beaches. some of it got into theest wares. that has to be cleaned up. some of it...