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The size, the scope of the damage and what kind of damage could these plumes entail? >> well, i'll tell you, alex, i think the discovery of these plumes really confirms what most people in the industry thought from the very first day and that is that the flow from the well is much higher than the initial estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. many scientists i've been read ing about or talking to have said 20,000 to 25,000 and one even came up with the number as high as 70,000 barrels a day. that makes a lot more sense to me, the 20,000, 50,000 barrels a day because these big, deep water wells are v...

Now with the loop current coming up the eastern sea board. right now the center of the oil slick is up in here, it's up to the north. it's going to try to get back a little bit further south the next several days. it's the weekend that i'm worried that it gets far enough south to get caught in what we call the jet current that comes along the eastern seaboard and then you have problems. >> one expert said i don't think we can prevent it from getting into the loop, it's more a question of when not if. folks make their money and spend their leisure time on the beaches in florida on the east coas...

It's most important during the hurricane season, that's where you see the storms intensify. this current comes around, comes south of florida and up the eastern sea board. as you look at the bigger picture of the atlantic ocean, here it comes up along the eastern sea board into the gulf stream and a lot of folks are worried about that now, that that oil gets pushed southward into the loop current and comes right along the eastern sea board. i think over the next three or four days the winds will be relatively light, but i'm very concerned this a strong front gets into the gulf this weekend and...

Mexico. powerful currents could carry this mess up the east coast. and that is where we start this hour, a huge disaster that is threatening to get bigger. we've had a scientist who knows the currents to explain it to us. joe joins us from the accu weather studios in pennsylvania. we see this graphic down in florida of what is called the loop, and those currents and the winds will determine whether the east coast could now be hit with this oil? >> well, yeah, the winds are going to be diminishing. they'll -- they've been strong southerly the past couple of days. they've backed off. there is a ...