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The most important part of this crisis at this point, which is the continuation of that leak at 200,000 gallons a day, as you said before, a huge amount of oil still flowing into the gulf. i call this all a waiting game because the slick still sits out there. the weather window is ideal for people to deal with the slick on the surface and try to fix the leak at its source, except that who would want to use the word gain to apply to any part of this crisis? it is huge out there. 2,000 square miles. while it's still sitting 40 or 50 miles south of the substantive part of it, 40, 50 miles south o...

Mile below sea level. that's the hope. meantime, you pointed out before, there are reports of trace amounts of oil on beaches at barrier islands. i spoke with the sierra club and they said trace amounts in gulfport and ship islands where amounts found on the west part of that island. way out on chandelier island on louisiana coast. the oil slick held off by booms 50 or 100 miles offshore. it's getting close. no one doubts there's going to be an oil landfall sometime in the next several days perhaps because of the favorable weather patterns. not from two or three days but out there. already on ...

>> reporter: no. this is really a good news/bad news story, tamron, with the bad news far outweighing the good. take a look at this. i'll use it as a wind indicator and it has now turned in the last hour. the water on that side, waland this side, the wind has turned around driving it closer. as you referenced before with the satellite photo. everybody is concerned about the fact that it looks like this oil landfall is going to occur sooner than they thought. first they thought two or three days which would give the response crews more time to prepare the islands and other vulnerable areas to s...

Area of the leak, he said, itself, is really still about 40 or 50 miles south of the louisiana coast with parts of the sheen, with some fingers of oil getting in much closer than that. now there's been a development. as you can see if i do this, the wind has now shifted into an onshore direction. it hasn't been that way for a couple days but now it's coming from the ocean toward the land and that means it's pushing the sheen toward the land and that's the worrisome part of this whole operation here, when will there be an oil landfall. it's hard to predict exactly when it may happen but it seem...

Rival the "exxon valdez" oil spill. iconics images of thousands of birds killed and others covered with heavy, dark crude being cleaned. the northern gannett rescued from the gulf was cleaned from detergent. >> birds are particularly susceptible to oiling. even if they get a little oil on their feathers they ingest the oil while preening this they preen all the time. >> reporter: as many as 20 national wildlife refugees around the gulf could be -- by the oil slick. some are called the bird's foot delta because of the form by inlets and marsh land. all of which could soon be soaked in oil. of p...