CNN Early Start With John Berman and Christine Romans May 21, 2015 09:44:00
In santa barbara county. as much as 500,000 gallons of oil spilled when a pipeline ruptured. crews working to clean up the nine-mile oil slick. cnn's paul vercammen has more. >> reporter: you can see the tar mixed in with the seaweed. they literally rake together seaweed and car andkar tar and put in plastic bags. what else is in plastic flagcestic bags is anything covered in oil. you see the palm fronds here that are soaked in oil. if you take a 180, you look off in the distance another cluster of workers with the rakes and the plastic bags and the rest