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Florida's perdido key. i'm rob marciano. nice to meet you. you're in charge of this operation? >> yes, sir. got you a shirt here. put you to work. hope you're ready. >> reporter: i'm ready. the first thing i noticed on my trip to the clean-up site, it was hot. really hot. >> when it gets up in the middle of the day, you'll see that the heat index will be over 100. when you're out here working in the heat and like these guys right here in rubber boot, rubber gloves, long pants, shirt, there's no shade out here, just sun. >> reporter: i've got my sunscreen. there's some tar balls to be picked up...

Because of that, the flood advisories for chicago will stay in effect. cook county and areas to the west and to the north into milwaukee where we really saw damaging flooding. hundreds of people had to get their flights diverted yesterday to land in chicago instead. the big picture across much of the country shows that we have the stormy conditions across much of the area of the ohio valley. that same storm system is working its way to the east. there's the low pressure area known as bonnie as it makes its way onshore, struggle this occur sometime tonight after 8:00. what we're looking at real...

They're moving some of the ships back into the area as we speak. but this storm is going to cause problems along the shores here in louisiana. this is a waterway that leads into lake pontchartrain back behind me. every time a tropical system gets in the gulf, easterly winds blow that oil in the form of tar balls this way. and they've actually had tar balls in lake pontchartrain. so this storm could still be doing some damage, moving the oil around into places where they really don't want to see it. right now there's an argument going on about what to do with the so-called assets, the equipment...

Try to stay cool as best you can. she's a cool cucumber all the time. josh levs, thanks so much. and thanks to you at home for sending the questions. cleaning up the gulf coast, it's no easy task. that, you know by know. our rob marciano is on the job. he's going to show you just how tedious this work of scooping up these tar balls really is.

One thing i've learned throughout this entire shoot, everything you think is easy and should be quick is difficult and is very, very slow. i think if you were out there, things may have gone a little bit more quickly. but we need your help, fred. where were you? >> you know what? i can suit up. i can get out there and help you. something tells me when you finished that more than 100-yard area, i bet if you go back to that other 100 yards, new tar balls have washed up? >> reporter: yeah, that happened quite a bit. we've seen less of that over the last few weeks. that's the good news, especially...