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Coastline. we know that there is oil off the coastline, many of you have seen it showing up on the beaches in the forms of small quantities. we call them tar balls or patsp patties. that's starting to come ashore, and we're kocontinually assessi that. we know there's oil from huntington beach, and as far down from laguna, and likely continuing to move in a southerly direction based on the wind and the weather and the currents. we continue to increase our staffing at our incident command post as well as our personnel in the field. we've more than doubled the level of effort just since yesterday...

Contain and clean up this oil. we're talking about 168,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil that's in the water, all of it leaking from a partially sunken barge. now, this fuel is thick. it's sludge-like. it does not evaporate easily. and containing this spill is proving very tricky. you've got the heavy winds as well as choppy surf moving this oil farther out into the gulf. so far, you have about 69,000 feet of containment boom that's been deployed into the water with more of that boom at the ready. this spill has the potential to wreak economic havoc. as it stands right now, you have nearly 80 ves...

Her daughter. >> i can't sleep at night. i can't sleep at night. i can't eat. i keep thinking about my child and where she could be. i just want her back. so please, if you're listening and you're watching this, please bring terrilyn home. please. that's all i want. i want her home. >> oh. her daughter terrilyn was last seen at a bar in a quiet neighborhood. she was celebrating her nomination as district teacher of the year. a 30-foot wide ribbon of burned oil is streaming out of a barge off the coast of louisiana after the vessel's tug hit a petroleum pipeline last night and burst into flam...

Uphill battle even as the oil recedes. shep? >> live in grand isle. thanks. day two of the separate oil spill in the region. it could take a lot longer than first thought to bring the things under control. a well in the louisiana bayou has been spraying oil into mud lake as they call it ever since that ship hit yesterday. the feds estimate the leak is only about 30 barrels a day. tiny, tiny fraction of the b.p. spill. they've surrounded the area with thousands of feet of containment boom as you can see here. they estimate it will take up to 12 more days just to stop the flow. a pipeline operat...

You recently got back from a fly over in a small plane. what did you see? >> i saw a wellhead that's been hit by some type of a vessel. the wellhead is pushed over and sticking out about six inches from the surface, and it's spraying oil. >> reporter: and how much is it spraying, how many feet in the air would you say? >> it's probably about 15 feet in the air and the wind is carrying it to the north. right now we have vessels, and containment boom to go out there and contain it. at first -- we're going to contain it first and then we'll be contacting a well control company to come out here to...