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>> reporter: more than 3,500 pelicans, sea turtles and wildlife have been found bed. on our journey, we found some flocks of birds, but not as many as usual, even in their favorite nesting grounds. even though the oil is largely out of sight, scientists say it may be years before we really know the full environmental damage. back to you. >> lisa myers reporting for us. breaking news to pass along in the rangel ethics investigation. want to go back to luke russert with the details. >> i'm holding a statement of alleged violation which is essentially the statement put out by the investigative ...

You could say, to use a sports parlance, basically the quarterback. the quarterback in the sky directing skimmers, where they need to go, where they should be deployed. something else it's also going to do is keep a very sharp high on the pristine we'd lands, on nesting grounds of the ground pelican and look for pods of dolphins, any kind of animal that might be in distress. so it's going to really serve a multitude of purposes. something else it's going to be doing is het tro fretrofitting , electromagnet radar. that's going to be tested. that will also be used into operation. how this is goi...

The long-term significance of this, not just right now in the short term but in seasons to come, what are we potentially looking at here? >> well, during this time, we have our red fish coming in and they are spawning. we certainly have my gra tri birds flying in from the south. they use this as their nesting grounds. it has a potential not only for affecting what happens this year, but in future years as a reproductive cycle is broken. >> dean, you also feel that there was some corner cutting going on, one class action lawsuit being filed on behalf of the commercial shrimpers against bp. who ...

Population and potentially have an impact or our populated areas as well. >> reporter: president obama has sent several members of his administration to tour the area and meet with members of british petroleum, the oil company that owns the ruptured well where the leak is occurs. so far, bp's efforts to shut down the well have failed and efforts to contain the spill have varied from the burning parts of the oil slick to stringing up loading booms through the shoreline. >> the federal government has had meimmediate sustained and scaled response to this incident. it is very serious. >> reporter:...