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Some dispersed with chemicals, a lot of operation and we're trying to judge right now the metabolic ability of the gulf to really absorb this stuff through biodegradati biodegradation. we're working through an oil budget where we're trying to estimate the total flow and then subtract out what we know we removed and try to come up with an approximation and that's being worked on by the science team because we do need to know if it's subsurface. not a lot of oil on the surface right now but we're still getting tar balls and mats and patties that are coming up in southwest louisiana. i'm in venic...

101 days after the initial explosion, we have mixed results. progress is happening in killing that damaged oil well for good. but the cleanup efforts are suffering setback after setback. the immediate aftermath of the deepwater horizon explosion was bad enough. 11 workers trapped on the burning rig lost their lives. then came the oil. millions of gallons gushing into the gulf. oil-soaked birds. tar balls washing ashore. 100 days later it's a much different picture. this was the size of the spill at its height one month ago. this week most of the oil is gone. >> in the beginning i figured we'd ...

Much more we are going to see. >> one of the things, i was just talking to a tourism official testifying on capitol hill about making sure that americans and even global visitors get the message that all beaches are not soiled by oil, but when you looked at them, how much damage did you see with your bare eyes? >> there was some damage and i saw tar balls and the stain where the sheen had washed onshore. i think now the story is what isn't on the beaches and that's people. tourists. people are scare and not coming so our economy is affected as well as the environment. we don't know from a heal...

Were there any safeguards in the computer that would have noticed someone, even with the authority nonetheless, was downloading 90,000 documents. that's not something anybody would need to have in their job description. so why was this not noticed? >> a fascinating story that even includes lady gaga. thank you very much. it's been 100 days now that weave seen the awful images. slick, the tar balls, the oiled animals. when things seem to be getting better. we're getting a reminder that looks can be deceiving. invisible oil on the florida panhandle. that's next. the nutritional science in some...

Rivers of oil that we once saw, they are very hard to find, especially out near the leak site. and that is because when you think of what's happened over the past couple of weeks, we've had containment, we've had the well capped, but it doesn't mean the oil is not coming to shore. it still is coming to shore. i was out on a sand bar yesterday in south pass, and the beach was littered with tar balls and oil patties. it is still a problem, but less of a problem at the leak site. >> nbc's anne thompson with a reality check from the gulf this morning. thank you. here in washington, the president...