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Surface oil you have to disperse it. so that you don't get so much of it on the beach. that again is not just an ugly sight it kills a lot mauve reason li -- of marine life and tourist businesses when it reaches the shoreline. >> sylvia, dan, appreciate your time tonight. clearly a lot of questions we have. a lot of questions no one is able to answer just yet. thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> legendary singer jimmy buffet lending his voice to try to help boost the gulf's battered economy. tonight he is going to talk exclusively with anderson cooper about how exa...

The oil and, though, with hurricane katrina we saw the surge reaching as far in land as 12 miles and there is a possibility that some of this oil could go as far inland as five miles, plus, if we have a storm as intense as katrina. winds may transport surface oil closer or further from the coast. what do i mean by that? it is about the path. if the path moves east of the oil spill, it will actually push the oil away from the coast which would be a good thing, right? however if the hurricane move to the west of the oil spill the oil -- the onshore winds will push the oil towards the coast. that...

On the surface, the burn seems to handle sometimes several thousand barrels an hour. they think maybe they can get 30,000 barrels a day out of burning the surface oil. so if they collect more and they burn more, if the trickle sort of lessen as little bit. there may be some sense that by the end of summer, they can get it. i have to remind you of one thing, the weather, while hot here is perfect. low wind. no rain. the minute we start getting the sign of a hurricane and they're praying that they don't get one this whole operation has to come to a stop. >> yeah, that's a nightmare scenario, we ...

We are -- i can get pictures of the early -- of the raked beaches in the morning from the turtle watch volunteers. i'm also going to ask people to start taking pictures of their skin rashes and blisters. this is coming in from surfers and from the turtle watch volunteers as well as the workers. in response to this, tulane university is deploying a mobile medical unit to the venice area, and also we're working with physicians for social responsibility to come in all five of the gulf coast states. right now what they're doing is counseling medical doctors because this is not like an ordinary hea...

Separated. we are -- i can get pictures of the early -- of the raked beaches in the morning from the turtle watch volunteers. i'm also going to ask people to start taking pictures of their skin rashes and blisters. this is coming in from surfers and from the turtle watch volunteers as well as the workers. in response to this, tulane university is deploying a mobile medical unit to the venice area, and also we're working with physicians for social responsibility to come in all five of the gulf coast states. right now what they're doing is counseling medical doctors, but this is not an ordinary ...