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They could feasibly be stuck in a traffic jam when this thing hits if they decide to go too late? >> certainly, no one should be traveling anywhere at this point t. conditions here are getting worse. you can see the weather conditions moving in. no one should be traveling. you should be lunk u hunkered down. at this point few haven't found the location, you could head to an immediate shelter and there are many throughout miami-dade county. at this point we told residents, continue with usually, you know, identifiable cases, you will weather out the storm in a hurricane-proof billing and that s...

hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as it's making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the carolina shoreline for the past several hours. that is where, again, it it has officially made landfall...

Is suspend a lot of said sediment in the water. when the storm subsides, guess what, all that stuff settles out into the sea bed so there's a lot more oiling of the sea bed ecosystem after this. we've seen this in several large oil spills around the world. >> perfect. rick steiner, marine conservationist and one of the men helping us understand this as the nightmare continues. once again, great thanks for your time, rick. >> indeed, my pleasure. the gushers on capitol hill were at the kagan and petraeus hearings. the nominees almost incidental to the story lines. senators sessions and mccain...

Up patches of oil, it's not necessarily a bad thing at this time. is it likely to do that? is it likely to serve as a natural dispersant? >> sure. that's what will happen, and there's some good and bad to that. one, it will with all the turbulent mixing on the sea surface, the oil that's near the sea surface will break into smaller droplets, disperse down into the water column. the bad news is all of that will travel with the storm surge wherever that goes. if it goes up into the bayous, a lot of areas will be contaminated that have not yet been contaminated. the bird nesting islands near shor...

Russians. >> makes for good headlines here in new york city. great to have you with us. thanks for that. >> thank you, thomas. as we've been telling you this morning admiral thad allen was expected to be talking. he is now at the u.s. coast guard giving an update on the oil disaster in the gulf. >> coastal flooding is expected in some of the coastal areas of louisiana. what is the cleanup plans once the storm subsides? >> we expect if there's a storm surge we could see oil moving further inland or into marshes where we hadn't expected before. we have skimming task forces standing by to deplo...