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The loop current. we'll keep track of that, will they get this cap down? and a new amendment emerging to end or limit high-frequency trading. that will be interesting as well. that will do it for me. i am dill ill, thanks for spending some of your week with us. "hardball" is up next with chris matthews. flirting with disaster. let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm chris matthews down in washington. leading off tonight, the blame obama game. do republicans actually root for bad news these days? are they hoping for oil spills and bombing attempts so they can blame president obama? former ...

Now. if it gets cut in the loop current it could empty out through the florida keys. officials in the keys are bracing for the potential spill impact and preparing to protect the prime tourist territory there. the calm ocean waters expected to keep the oil slick at sea for next couple of days but it is already lapping up against the shore and threatening marine life and wildlife. the oil forecast has it at the mouth of the mississippi river and inching ever closer. the massive slick grazing the shore of the barrier islands. cleanup efforts are underway, even before the oil arrives. rob mar...

All right we're back with developing news on that massive and expanding oil spill in the gulf of mexico. now covering about 2,000 square miles in the gulf. new satellite photo shot outer edges of the slick has reached the mississippi river, delta. river also drifting into the so-called loop current, which would carry the slick east toward florida, and theoretically, around. today bp loaded a 100-ton containment on a barge. it should start capturing oil on monday, however the flow of oil does continue unabated and even though bp managed to cap one of the three leaks last night. think of it like...

Variables. one is the wind. when they go light, it gets more complicated. you have several different types of currents and eddies around the mississippi delta that make things even more complicated. that's the area of concern immediately. longer term, some of the other currents in the gulf of mexico may very well take over. so now folks along the west coast of florida and the florida keys are making preparations for the potential of the oil heading that way. this is a long-term deal here guys, whether or not it makes landfall in the mississippi coast or not. it's already done the damage out to...

Area of the leak, he said, itself, is really still about 40 or 50 miles south of the louisiana coast with parts of the sheen, with some fingers of oil getting in much closer than that. now there's been a development. as you can see if i do this, the wind has now shifted into an onshore direction. it hasn't been that way for a couple days but now it's coming from the ocean toward the land and that means it's pushing the sheen toward the land and that's the worrisome part of this whole operation here, when will there be an oil landfall. it's hard to predict exactly when it may happen but it seem...