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Invading america by the millions. sounds like a horror movie but it is unfolding in real life right now along the gulf coast. these flea-sized critters are extremely fast. look at them. that is not fast-motioned photography. regular pesticides are not working and some people are even being forced to flee their homes. joining us on the phone is a researcher at mississippi museum. what are these things and how did they get here? >> the crazy ants are a smallish, reddish brown ant that we think is native to south america, although they possibly came in from the caribbean along the way. we think t...

Crude, again a high-quality crude. the first samples i saw were something like this which really started to alarm us that there may be something unique about what is going on out there. >> you received subsequent examples that aren't quite that thick. >> not quite as thick as this. these are some of the samples that came off of skimmers that were cleaning up the oil spill. notice it is kind of a reddish-brown color. crude oil is typically black. this south louisiana crude.cfr so you can see the difference in the tint. and this is an oil and water emulsion called a mousse, chocolate mousse, i...

Situation off the gulf coast as the oil from the sunken oil rig nears the shore. what are we looking at? >> wind is still coming in from the southeast. that is still blowing the waves and the wind and the water and the oil all the way up into the mississippi delta, into the mississippi river delta, that little point that sticks out. see that yellow box that we've made? kind of the irregular box? that's where the sheen is. inside that sheen is the thick oil where it looks white, although it's really on the real image it actually looks brown and kind of reddish-brown, whatever, this is how it wa...

The cobalt blue of the waters you will see the dark spots but the shimmery sheen that we've been talking about. and then you will see the ugly streets of thick, reddish brown oil that have been popping up. the reddish brown oil, we can burn it off. the shimmery thing is the rainbow shine. it is amazing to e. of course, as we've been bricking it up. it's still coming out. 5,000 feet down. and that's the reason -- one of the big reasons why they're trying to skim off the spread by burning some of it today. >> let's go to chad myers now. chad, how long will it take for this oil slick to reach alo...

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