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Tightening. >> jon: philip in athens. thanks. to the gulf of mexico now. the unfolding oil disaster there officials in louisiana confirm today the leading edge of the slick has hit land for the first time. they say the petroleum is washing into marsh grass in island. state official told reporters the oil has coated birds on the islands. scientists say it is just the beginning. so far we have not seen any pictures from those islands but this nasa picture from two days ago gives some idea of how close that huge slick is to the delicate shoreline of louisiana and mississippi. crews are still tryi...

Wilderness in the lower 48. a lot of the coastline is 30 or 40 miles from the nearest road, and once the oil gets into that marsh grass, it's literally impossible to ever clean up. >> you have been an out spoken critic against offshore drilling. you think it's unfair to use this current spill as an argument against it? >> if this were the only spill you could say that, but there are lots of the spills. in the gulf since 2001, there has been 858 oil explosions or fires associated with offshore drilling. we see spills and 100 spills every year in the gulf. this one is a larger magnitude, and it'...