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Of some of those people who make their living in those waters. talk to me about the hundreds of species of fish and birds. are you seeing their health impacted already by this. we had a report of a pod of sperm whales spotted. they didn't show distress. are you seeing that now. >> seeing distress from the air of a sperm whale does not say anything. they are not going to send up an s.o.s. we know they are impacting by surface sheen. that's something significantly we're concerned about. we've got bird watching centers set up now to be able to deal with the impacts. i think at this point mostly t...

Million a day operation to attack a swath of oil bigger than the state of delaware and creeping closer to the louisiana shoreline. 1700 people deployed and 70 vessels, including remote-operated submarines that haven't been able to seal off the leaking pipe. now an effort to burn off oil on the surface. >> tell us about this burning operation. how is that going right now and what do you plan on doing with it? >> the burning operation is part of a three-pronged attack on the surface. in the core of the spill where the oil thickness is about .1 of a millimeter, we are trying to collect it and see...