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Towards an island and there are no response vessels. at another location, there is even more oil. rows and rows of it. here there are skimmers. where has the rest of the oil gone? experts say it's evaporated and been eaten by microbes and that hundreds of thousands of barrels are still lurking in the water. >> should continue to worry about the oil that may be in the swamps and oil that is in the walter, but below the surface. >> reporter: and experts say worry about how all that oil mixed with an unprecedented 1.8 million gallons of dispersant is impacting birds and marine animals. what have ...

Of individual fire and gas alarms on the rig, and each could potentially set off the general alarm. silencing that general alarm was the company's way of preventing false alarms. meantime, bonnie, downgraded to a tropical depression, still headed for the gulf and expected to make landfall late tomorrow. with response vessels moved out of harm's way, it looks like the sealed well cap a mile below the surface could be left unattended for about 48 hours. it's a big setback for response workers, but national incident commander thad allen says pulling back was necessary to keep people and equipme...

Engineering technician's testimony rocked a federal hearing here in new orleans. the technician work and bp's ruptured well and told the panel investigating the disaster that an alarm system on the transocean rig had been silenced about year before the april explosion. silenced. what's more, he said, supervisors were aware the alarm was disabled. according to transocean, he's right. 's in a statement, the company said the dit abling was intention and "conforms to accepted maritime practice." because according to transocean, there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alarms on the rig. each...

An engineering technician's testimony rocked a federal hearing here in new orleans. the technician work and bp's ruptured well and told the panel investigating the disaster that an alarm system on the transocean rig had been silenced foyer about year before the april explosion. silenced. what's more, he said, supervisors were aware the alarm had been disabled. according to transocean, he's right. in a statement, the company said the disabling was intentional and "conforms to accepted maritime practice." that's because according to transocean, there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alar...

Control. the ability to command and the ability to control. we've got orders going out, but there's no one to be out there to move those boats to the right place to get that oil before it gets to the shoreline. so we need to mobilize the department of defense to come in and help admiral allen do this. >> so the criticism of that point of view has been, look, the military is not trained in any specifics of oil cleanup. but you're saying that what they are trained in is the command and control that would put better organizational face on what's going on out there? i mean right now, look, they sa...