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Information as we get it. from watching this m pprogram, know that bh hasn't been forthcoming with information. no oil seems to be coming out of the well. the oil is not pouring into the water. where exactly is it? all of the oil still out there, where is it? chad myers joins us right now. >> reporter: the thickest stuff is still well off shore and that's great news. obviously here is the shore and here is louisiana and back out towards texas. there is still a sheen in this entire area bound by this big red line. most of the oil is well off shore. that's the best thing that we can talk about, ...

Where is it? chad myers joins us right now. >> reporter: the thickest stuff is still well off shore and that's great news. obviously here is the shore and here is louisiana and back out towards texas. there is still a sheen in this entire area bound by this big red line. most of the oil is well off shore. that's the best thing that we can talk about, how far away it is and where it's going to be going. there is a loop current coming out of the caribbean and sometimes going all the way where the oil should be and then up into the northeast. that is not happening. that's not happening at all tha...

Is and where it's going to be going. there is a loop current coming out of the caribbean and sometimes going all the way where the oil should be and then up into the northeast. that is not happening. that's not happening at all that way. it's kind of cut off and coming up only to around cuba and then back to the florida keys. it's circulating around and not getting the oil into the gulf stream. that's another fantastic development from mother nature. here we go. why do we carry about this? as it hits storms right over the area, the skimming efforts have to stop. the waves get too big and the o...

They hit the loop current and end up over there anyway after a couple months in the gulf. we're preempting that. jeff joins us live from gulf stores, alabama. what are you learning about the prognosis of these sea turtles? >> well, andrea, to be truthful, the jury is out. our planet is home to six species, five frequent these waters. one, the kemp ridley is so endangered that the numbers were reduced to about 10,000 animals before the oil spill. they're taking a multigenerational approach. we were out there with the louisiana wildlife, they were saving turtles for the next generation that yo...

Had to know and in his time off kept searching. he posted photos on scuba and travel websites where readers latched on to small details like the tail number of this plane. blue domes in the background of this photo. and finally when a woman surfing the net recognized the kids in this photoschultz tracked down nick who had lost the camera. apparently it got caught in the loop current traveling through the caribbean and the gulf of mexico before landing in the southernmost tip of florida. six months and 1,700 miles laterer, he was astonished to get his camera back. >> we will drink a beer with m...