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Said and done putting impacting those beaches. in texas, you have 40% chance, but eventually those beaches, over to the panhandle, there is an 81-100% chance. once you go southwest coast of florida, it's down to less than 20%. however, once you get to the florida keys, miami, the loop current suggests there is possibly going to be as much 80% chance that those beaches will eventually see some sort of oil. we'll see what happens, but certainly not anything in florida wants to hear. >> and you are staying in my home state in louisiana. i hate to see you alone on the beach on the 4th of july. >> ...

Be a worse-case scenario. >> a large spill of oil and then a hurricane moving somewhere in the vicinity. now, the question is, where does a potential hurricane go in relation to the spill? if the hurricane moves to the right of the spill, then you could actually see the winds of the hurricane blow the spill to the south, that means it could interact with the loop current and push the spill under the floor, through the straights and up the east coast and potentially affecting the carolinas. probably not the northeast. if the hurricane goes to the west of the spill, then the counterclockwise win...

Exploration plans and it reads like a greenlg tragedy which is a warning about the dangers human huberrous. they make these claims about how safe it is, about how even if there is a spill, it won't make to shore because it's too far, it's 48 miles. and nowhere in this report do they mention the loop current. it they have so little faith in the power of nature that they think they can control it. >> and you see the push and pull when you talk to the people because so many of them depend on oil and the oil industry for jobs. and, in fact, i think if you went down there and you talked to most of ...

The gulf and tar balls from the bp oil spill have washed up on the beach in panama city, florida. that's the furthest east they have been spotted so far. crews are cleaning up tar balls ranging from the size of nickels to half dollars. searing heat and humidity for much of the south, especially true along the gulf coast where folks are really having a tough time there. if it's not the heat and humidity it's the oil. bonnie schneider has more on that terrible combination. >> absolutely. looking at the forecast we have some favorable things to talk about. there's been a lot of concern about the ...

Jeopardy if this reaches the coral reef. >> oh, it's not a matter of just. it's going to reach it. let me just paint this picture. you've got what's called this summer highway, the ocean highway. the loop current. the loop current will pick this dispersant up and drive it to the straits of florida. the beginning of the coral. to give you some idea, ed, that's 80 times the volume of all water rivers on earth that's going to go through -- that goes through the straits of florida, and it carries it all the way into the atlantic where the gulf stream picks it up and carries it all the way up to ma...