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Himself at the massive oil slick, and the containment booms which have been deployed. richard louie is in dauphin island, alabama. how is the weather holding up. >> reporter: we spoke an hour ago, it was less windy at that time, we had sunlight behind us. you can see we have full cloud cover. he'll be able to get a nice aerial view of what's been deployed. what i will also say to give you some context behind me, there are no booms. just yesterday we had booms that had collapsed and they were recovering them, and then on friday, is when they put out initially about 300 yards of booms. they had ...

Hearing the same thing. the thing to remember is would not be like going to the gulf and throwing a match in the oil. it would be one small portion at a time and only then it would have to be if you have conditions that are perfect, the winds and current that are just so. speaking to the coast guard, yesterday i had a chance to take off with the helicopter crew and we got to fly out and assess the damage and containing this thing will be a very tall order. from the air, the spill appears massive. you can definitely see it. >> skimmers and booms trying to recover oil. >> reporter: thank you sur...