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That they actually didn't see a sheen. we got initial reports that there has been seen a sheen one nautical mile by a hundred feet. there are two pipelines to shore, one goes to shell, they report they have not received a production out of this pipeline for some months now. the other one goes to a & r, this one has been active. there is a vessel called the candy apple with firefighting capabilities on site. admiral andrews says the coast guard will obviously take the lead on pollution response. captain stapbt ton is the point person to even sure that any firefighting plan that they execute doe...

Anything? >> those details, not yet. i think with the recent extinguishing of the fire will help us obviously assess this better. when that fire was going, some of the oil that was coming up as well as the diesel that was on board helped fuel that fire, so it kind of kept us at bay from really getting in there and finding ways to slow this down but, you know, now with -- you know, we kind of move on to the next phase of what this is, you know, we kind of -- you know, we train and plan for this, the coast guard's national strike force is en route to help with the pollution response. and working...

That this whole thing is under -- under water? >> the coast guard will work closely with bp. bp is the responsible party and they are bringing in the assets we need to mitigate the pollution response. coast guard has hundreds of people coming in to help oversee that effort. bp's brought in multiple boats, upwards of 32 different skimming boats. by the end of today, we're expecting to have 1 million feet of boom in the area so we can help boom off the pollution. >> all right. officer o'berry, thank you very much for joining us. this accident comes just weeks after president obama opened more ...

Raves, and did witnesses say we saw the 12 get into a raft, anything like that in. >> we haven't gotten word on any of that. the investigation will come to light once the search and rescue aspect has been concluded and then we go to a pollution response, and then they go into the investigation portion of the case. gregg: i know you're with the coast guard but do you have any idea what happened here, what caused the explosion? >> nothing right now. like i said, our primary focus is the search and rescue of those 12 and then we'll work with the management service to look at an investigation once...