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Skimming fleet of 780 skimmers. >> reporter: you realize when you say that it is so hard for people to believe that this spill was so enormous and yet we're having trouble finding the oil to skim it? >> it's not for lack of trying. we have 50 aircraft saturating this very location where satellites indicate there could be oil sheen in the area. so we're going to look just like we would doing search and rescue to see where any possible target pocket of oil might be over this area. >> rob marciano is live in gulfport, mississippi this morning. rob, you talk about not being able to see the oil but...

This point, it appears lost. >> by the way, there are a handful of other sanctuary cities in america, san francisco and chicago, perhaps the most well-known and some experts say that judge boulton's ruling will set a legal precedent and could ultimately affect policies in those parts of the country as well. julie. >> casey stegall, thank you very much. and we're now waiting for the next step to begin in plugging the gulf oil spill. a procedure engineers dubbed static kill. this could plug the well for good, but before that can begin, several things have to fall into place. >> the current forec...

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A substantial minority oppose it vocally. talk to the controversial sheriff, joe arpaio at the center of the battle. first, randi kaye has the latest. >> reporter: anderson, bp's plan to permanently seal its ruptured well has hit a snag. it had hoped to start a static kill, pumping mud and cement from above into the blow-out preventers as early as sunday. today, the effort was postponed until possibly monday or tuesday because workers need to clean out debris they found in one of the relief wells being drilled. the debris is preventing a final section of pipe casing from being installed. that ...

The pressure. because that pressure is decreased, because it is below 7,000 psi or so, they think they may be able to try this static kill which in essence is the same as the top kill that we tried about a month ago, but we don't have that ongoing pressure of the oil coming out of the well. so it's static pressure. the oil's not spewing out. there's just that pressure there so it is a static pressure, a static kill. they pump mud through the choke-and-kill lines and try to suppress the well that way. we'll know in the coming days if they're going to try that. it does behoove bp to do that. if ...