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>> we're both getting information on this right now, a plane come into atlanta airport. a delta 737 with a blown tire. >> right, it blew a tire on takeoff. it flew all the way to memphis, turned around, kind of flew over mississippi for a while. it did a bunch of loops around huntsville, burning off oil. then eventually bringing itself in. now, this is not a big deal. honestly, because this is a redundancy system. it's the reason why there's more than one tire on an airplane. if it's the nose tire that's blown, it's a little bit of a different thing. >> they flare when they land and then they ...

In our estuaries and there's nothing we can do about it. >> how much do you think the fire -- the burning off has spread this into the environment in other ways? do you have any way of measuring that? >> i don't have any way of measuring it, keith, but it's phenomenal when you get out there and you realize that these huge towering columns of smoke are coming from incredibly small fires on the horizon. when you look at the amount of oil that's out there, each one of those columns of smoke is nothing more than a tea cup in comparison. it will take thousands of these fires to burn all the oil on ...

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