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Little, too late? jonathan serrie is live on orange beach, alabama. what do you the idea? do you like it? >> reporter: good morning, bill, behind me, is a $4.5 million project, look at the construction there, on the other side of the bridge, they are driving pilings, concrete pilings into the bottom of perdido pass, the inlet i'm standing on now and they'll eventually suspend a 32 inch diameter pipe all the way across perdido path and will be filled with foam so it floats and will be suspended from chains from the pilings you see them driving into the water and into the bottom of the path and ...

This flotilla of boats that's been going out, they've been going out for quite some time. we're in perdido path, the back of perdido bay, they're work in to seal off the area to keep the oil from coming into the backwaters during a rising tide and all of these people here are involved in that effort. meanwhile, bp says that the cost of the cleanup, and they predict overall it will run from $3 billion to $6 billion. u.s. officials say the amount of oil still pouring into the gulf has run 15,000 barrels a day and the coast guard has told bp to step up containment efforts and to present a new pla...