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Mile below sea level. that's the hope. meantime, you pointed out before, there are reports of trace amounts of oil on beaches at barrier islands. i spoke with the sierra club and they said trace amounts in gulfport and ship islands where amounts found on the west part of that island. way out on chandelier island on louisiana coast. the oil slick held off by booms 50 or 100 miles offshore. it's getting close. no one doubts there's going to be an oil landfall sometime in the next several days perhaps because of the favorable weather patterns. not from two or three days but out there. already on ...

Right now everybody is hoping the worst won't happen here. >> mike, give us a sense. you've had a chance to be out on the water. for people a great distance away who see these reports live on the television, does this oil have a stench to it? is it obvious nearby? what does it look like, feel like and taste like on the ground there. >> when we were out on the barrier islands, ship islands, called sweet louisiana crude. it's lighter, easier to dissipate, easier to burn off. so in that regard it's not the worst type of oil forming the slick and the pool forming right now, yet there's so much of ...