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Catch. is there much oil in the marshes? >> no, no, there's not really a whole lot right now. >> reporter: it's becoming increasingly hard to find the oil. we surveyed the marshes and saw none. in a flight to the rig site with the coast guard, there was no oil to be seen. >> it's becoming a very elusive bunch of oil for us to find and do anything about. >> reporter: two weeks ago, skimmers picked up about 25,000 barrels of oily water in one day. last thursday, they picked up a total of just 200 barrels. that doesn't mean all that oil is gone. there are thousands of small patches like this belo...

On through with the relief well, drilling into the well and intersecting it and filling it up with cement. so all of that playing out beginning early next week. >> david, you went to the rig site. tell us what you saw. >> well, we flew over the site with the coast guard. we saw all of the pieces coming back into place, the drilling rigs and all the vessels associated with that work that's going on out there. one thing we did not see, though, the huge patches of black oil that sort of has become the face of this disaster out there. what's been happening since that well has been shut down and th...

Pie here. >> key lime pie in your future. stephanie abrams, thanks so much. crews drilling those critical relief wells are forced to evacuate as bonnie now closes in on the gulf. as we heard from stephanie there, it's really booking that way, from where she is, but how big of a problem is it for people there? >> reporter: you may see some ships behind me coming back into safe harbor, they essentially stopped working yesterday in advance of this storm. the rig site itself is being evacuated today by order of the coast guard. they will stay away from that area for perhaps as long as a week. it...

All the equipment that's down there with can stand it. >> ed lavendera, we appreciate you, ed. we'll check in with you again. as ed said, we don't have a real time line but we could get a better idea. we expect to hear from thad allen, the one in charge of the whole response down there, retired admiral thad allen. when we do hear from him, we'll take that live if he comes up here in the next couple of hours. but we expect some kind of update from him and maybe we'll know a lot more about the time line. also great pictures we have been seeing coming to us from cnn's dave mattingly. he is embe...