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These florida beaches are spectacular. >> reporter: the goal is to get the beaches back to their pre-oil spill form. but layers of oil still exist deep in the sand. and these machines are only allowed to dig down six inches in this wildlife protected area. >> there's a lot more going on the sand than meets the eye. >> it's very active substrate. it's very diverse, what we can't see is a lot of other critters literally that are below us right now that all drive this whole system. >> reporter: all of what makes this perfect nesting grounds for some rare animals. i got to handle a few sea turtles...

Have on an island that's under water? this is ridiculous, the comment that is she made that said we ought to get a bunch of volunteers together to put the pipe together. it's not a tinker toy set. it's a pipe you could drive your car in that has to be weld and slit into the ocean two miles out and transported to the island. it's going to take days in good weather. >> any progress today on any front that you saw in your realm? >> no. >> in plaquemines parish. >> we're at war says the president. yet this lady, who thinks we can help with volunteers putting the pipe together, has the ability to s...

President. yet this lady, who thinks we can help with volunteers putting the pipe together, has the ability to stop this island. the sad part is we got oil coming back our way. there's a nesting ground, 1,000 feet away from where we stopped. by friday, 3,000 feet would have protected. if that island gets infected with oil, the blood is on her hands. she stopped it. >> when you hear that a fisherman in alabama committed suicide -- again, we don't know what goes through somebody's mind. we can't say necessarily it was because of the spill or what he was experiencing after it, but his friends say...

Those senior executives at bp, soon, again, and we'll bring it to you live. a live picture of a marine standing outside of that main door, and you can imagine just the gaggle, as suzanne malveaux was describing of the reporters and journalists waiting with baited breath. this is the first time the president has met face-to-face with folks from bp, including ceo, tony hayward. meantime, if it you are wondering what else could go wrong for bp in the gulf on this 58th day of the oil disaster, well, parish leaders in louisiana say a bp clean-up crew trampled the nesting ground of brown pelicans ...

Shoring up the beach on the other side, which is a fertile nesting ground for birds and sea turtles as well. a lot of activity bracing for impact. in the event the oil slick or sheen from the leak comes this way. so far they have collected samples. those samples at the top are tested. we haven't heard of the results at this point. there's a lot of concerned about the tourism industry. hotels and restaurateurs are concerned about what this is going to do to summer months as the leak continues to spill into the ocean. very few people have an idea when this is actually going to be capped. there's...