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Non-essential workers out of a couple of rigs in the gulf that, sounded like the worst but still these were non-essential workers. where is alex now? is it going to affect the oil spill disaster area. >> it might in terms of bringing enhanced wave action but having an absolute direct effect the effect is minimal. alex is rattling parts of the yucatan like a jackhammer, it's obscuring the entire peninsula. hard to see with the enhanced satellite. the areas with the bright purple and the reds, the areas where you with your deepest convection, heaviest rainfall and thickest areas in the atmospher...

This section. the northeast quadrant of this storm it's not getting weaker but rather stronger. look at the explosion in the last couple of frames, poom, right there. notice a little bit of that purple and red coming up, that's deep convection we're seeing as this thing is crossing the we anyone la. if it were to move over open water would perhaps get much stronger becoming a hurricane. the national hurricane center shows it restrengthening over the warm water, coming onshore 2:00 in the afternoon near tampico, mexico. if this storm were to slow down and stay out over open water it could becom...

On the gulf coast everyone took a break to watch the game as well but back to the reality, day 69 of the gulf oil disaster. we saw yesterday the first named storm developed, first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season, tropical storm alex. don't exactly know for sure where it's going. we're starting to see more computer models give us a better idea maybe. we're continuing to learn more over the next 24/48 hours and these things can turn on a dime. we're wondering how this could affect the oil cleanup and recovery. some oil workers in the area being evacuated from those offshore faciliti...

Enough of a threat they're pulling their workers way from the area. bp and shell pulled non-essentials off of the rigs as a precaution. the storm could intensify at some point later into this week, could become a hurricane at some point. we don't exactly know how that will affect the oil. bp it was important for them to note, to tell us, in fact, they had not pulled anyone away from the deepwater horizon well area, so the disaster relieve efforts have not been hampered. none of the people working on the response have been pulled away. some possibly better prospects, reynolds will give us mor...

You see some of the video here, we told you about yesterday and talked to one of the organizers live. they gathered people all over the place on the beaches to hold hands to really take a stand against offshore drilling and trying to push for more clean energy. let me turn to reynolds wolf, we're learning more and more these forecast models i guess as far as the oil goes, starting to look a little more favorable possibly but still these things are by their nature unpredictable. >> absolutely. there are a few of the models, we don't have a whole lot of confidence but a few are shifting forward ...