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Wave moving across the caribbean right now. the admiral says that this operation needs about five days' notices of gale force winds. in other words, if gale force winds were predicted five days from now, the operation would have to shut down right now. all of those 45 vessels that are around the deep water horizon rig about 50 miles south of here would all have to evacuate the safe harbor, as would thousands of workers along the gulf coast who have been stringing boom, not to mention what would happen to the boom. here's what admiral thad allen said about the evacuation of the deep water horiz...

>> our threshold to start taking action is 120 hours before gayle force winds are forecasted. >> tonight, watching the weather and waiting for trouble. developing right now, the gulf south faces yet another threat on day 67 of our national disaster. take a live look at what is now the first tropical depression of the hurricane season. forecasters say it looks as if it will be headed into the gulf sometime next week. >> well, we now have it as high risk. the global models that we used prior to getting a well-developed storm as our primary goal. west northwest. the big question is when it moves ...