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Ft. lauderdale, the keys, is not going to be this brown chocolate cake batter goop that you see washing ashore other places in the gulf, but it's more likely to be in the form of tar balls, because it becomes highly weathered as it moves through the ocean and it takes six to 12 days to reach the keys. so in that time, it's changed, it's transformed and will be in the form of tar balls which are a lot easier to deal with and less toxic. >> and you're also in charge of the weather service, so before we let you go, are there any new concerns, bonnie, tropical storms forming that will affect the s...

It is very serious. we have good coordination among all of the federal agencies, but more importantly the responsible party, bp, has had close oversight of their actions to respond and cleanup this oil. our first priority is to get it stemmed at the source, but that is ongoing with all of these surface efforts at sea. and now our focus has turned to the shoreline. we've 180,000 feet of boom deployed. >> they are trying to stop the spill underground. what are they and how likely are any of them to work? >> they continue to try and work with the blowout preventer. there's technology they continu...