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The biotic life not to be normal. that's what you're seeing. but that oil that's being degraded, as long as it's in the an ro anerobic environment. we've seen the pelicans totally covered with oil. this is a heartbreaking scene. but the pelicaned are captured, cleaned up and released. by and large are surviving. that ought to tell us a little bit about the toxicity of this oil. >> all right. ed overton and stan skinner, thank you for joining us in "the situation room." we appreciate your analysis. >> you're welcome. >> thank you very much. president obama talks about race and says americans ...

The environment. there is a lot of biomass in the environment. there is still shoreline impacts over the next several days. i think we also clearly are on the down side of this thing. and the environment is incredibly resilient. it return to normal. the bacteria out. there they're helping. we're also helping with tropical weather that dispersed residual oil and breaks it into much smaller components. the concentrated oil can't be degraded very fast. dispersed oil can be. and bonnie helped in that respect. >> stan, do you agree? do you believe that there's been bacteria that is eating the oil? ...

Oil that gets buried down in the sentiments, under the marsh, that's in the anerobic environment, no oxygen. it doesn't cause gigantic impacts. it is having impacts. but they're not massive impacts like we've seen over the last 87 days. i mean we've seen an acute horrible disaster coating of the marshlands, coating of animals, killing dolphin. that portion of the spill is over. there will be a long term impact. we don't know what they are. i'm predicting that they will be relatively mild and that they will start decreasing in intensity. >> do you agree, stan? do we have enough information to k...

historic paintings, antiques and did he cure that presidents get to see and enjoy every day. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i'm suzanne malveaux and you're in "the situation room." arizona's controversial immigration law went into effect as scheduled this week. minus key provisions blocked by federal judge. now no one in the state seems satisfied. governor jan brewer quickly launched an appeal of the ruling. and opponents of the crackdown launched a series of street protests leading to a number of arrests. both sides are prepa...