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Something is wrong with junior down the street there. >> we haven't heard about neighbors from bridgeport to tell whaus this guy was like. i think we'll be hearing that -- that will be the next shoe to drop here in the next several hours. we'll hope for the best down there. >> thanks, drew. we're tracking other stories as well. new aerial pictures of the oil spill. able to take a helicopter ride and look at what's going on. officials say it could be more than a day before they have a possible fix in place. bp is waiting for concrete and steel containment boxes to try to syphon the oil on to ba...

A week. right now, the spill is close to being swept into the fast-moving loop current, which would carry the oil around the tip of florida, and into the gulf stream. from there, the oil could flow all the way up the east coast of the united states. joining me now is nick shea, a professor of the university of miami school of marine and atmospheric science. professor, good to have you with us tonight. justify put and capsulize for us how serious this is if that loop does, in fact, take place. >> well, thank you for inviting me on your show, ed. it is serious. the current is very strong. and it...

I was in the marshes, called the biloxi marshes today and basically in that region, the booms were going up in anticipation of oil coming in. the problem that we have here is we've got an eternal flow until they get this thing shut down on the floor of the gulf. and i go back to what representative issa said. mms has got as much blame here as bp. their proposal was this was 50 miles out. there would be no failures. all slicks wouldn't get into the coast. well it's 50 miles out, 5,000 feet below the surface, you've got an oil well gushing and we've got potential damage. not just louisiana's est...

Into late tuesday and wednesday. maybe a little bit of a break but once you get to thursday or friday the winds come back and it's still leaking. still an issue as far as pushing the oil to the coast. >> todd, what's the likelihood that it gets into the gulf stream and starts seeping towards florida? >> well, that's off the east coast of florida. initially it would have to hook into the loop current in the gulf. that does carve down the western side of florida. if it managed to get into that, if we talk about weeks of oil, not out of the question to see it pulled into the atlantic. still too e...

Marciano. a complicated situation. you have currents that are closer to shore that go one way, currents further away from shore that go another way and then the wind kind of steering the very surface of those waters. so here's a look at where the wind flow is right now, a cool breeze out of the north-northwest so, that's kind of kept it to offshore, pushed it to the south and east. give you perspective, the actual spill is right at the mouth of the mississippi river and that's pretty much where there's an intersection of two different currents going two different ways. the main current well ...