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Told us. we are all looking into the allegation and yet to verify. judson have you reached out to the police or local officials and discussed what you have found? >> we did reach out to those folks. a couple of local sheriffs spoke with us x. when we asked them if there were trucksing in and dumping, they conif i wered there were trucks coming in and dumping sand and spread around on the peaches and we poke with a couple of locals, bp contractor who would like to remain unnamed confirmed they had dumped sand and bringing it in. dumping sand in an effort to cover it up. it is outrainfallous. we...

Any reason that we can wrap our heads around why bp would dump sand on the beech other than to hide the oil in >> we have asked ourselves the same question. we saw piles of sand and when we crossed over, i think you saw in the video there is a orange boom. we acrossed over to the water line, we could see sort of different coined of sand than you see on the beach. more orange and gritty almost like dirt. i think we maybe got lucky. it was the day after alex came through and the tide had washed some of the loose dirt and so we were able to see the exposed layers of oil. i can't think of any othe...

Duty to clean it up. not cover it up? >> absolutely. and even if they were unintentionally were covering oil when they were import dutching the sand. if they were bringing in for a different purpose, what ever happened it ended up on top of thole which means that it is not going to be cleaned up. it will sit there and when they reopen the beaches, it is going to be a threat to people and remain a threat to the wild life. so we need to make sure wharf happened that bp or contractors held accountable so that we can make sure it is not happening anymore. >> we are about out of time. you are fro...

Gulf coast. photojournalist got his hands on video on a beach in grand isle, louisiana. looks like bp is adding sand over on top of the oil on the beaches. we'll let you decide. >> what you are seeing here, is where the sand that they have dumped on the beaches has eroded down and if you look about four layers down, you can see it is cov're covering up oil. >> he's going to join us later on the show. this is an outrage. >> it is two differentie toops of sand and he discovered this. >> this is true. this is the height of stupidity and forget about ignorance and what happens with sand. we know t...

Limits to the public, there is an orange fence and a small group of guys are using shovels and bags to scoop up oil-stained sand, and, to stack up and get out of here and from where you are along the gulf of mexico, reservations and bookings and revenues are down from 40% to 80%, so, it is certainly a glum fourth of july weekend so far. >> clayton: i saw an ad the other day from florida, saying, hey, remember, we have 852 square miles of beaches, come down here! if you are planning on coming down here, still fly down here. how are other beaches affected by the spill, besides grand isle? >> the...