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Of be coming into the waters around the text coastline? >> my independenting is we have had tar balls in a couple places in the boulevard coastline. some have the characteristics of this spill and some have not. those that have exhibits characteristics of oil that would have been far weathered than it was having gone that far. we're looking at the fact of whether or not vessels working in the area transmitted oil out there and had it come ashore. that said, we set up an incident command in galveston and have an information center there. we are in touch with the general land office and in touch...

Safe for consumption and they are. this is a focused effort by both fda and noaa. warding what comes next, i've said on several occasions, even if we contain the well and if the well is capped in mid-august, there is still a significant amount of oil out there and the oil recovery and impacts will probably extend well into the fall in terms of oil coming into shore, tar balls and beach cleanup and then moving to the natural resources damage assessment, trying to understand the long-term ecological impact of the event. >> there have been some confirmed amounts of tar balls from the bp oil spill...

Bolivar peninsula. some have had the characteristics of the spill and some have not. the one with the characteristics exhibit characteristics of oil that has been weathered. we're looking at the fact that whether vessels in the area have inadvertently transmitted oil and have it come ashore. that said, taking no chances, we is have set up an incident command posted in galveston, our folks are in touch with the general land office and the incident commander has been in touch with governor perry's office and we'll continue with with that, moving forward. there's no presence of oil on the surface...

Even if we contain the well and even if the well is capped in mid-august, there's still a significant amount of oil out there and the oil recovery and the impacts of this oil will probably extend well into the fall in terms of oil coming ashore, tar balls, beach cleanup and we'll be moving at that point to the natural resources, damage assessment, trying to understand the long-term environmental, ecological impact of the event. >> there has been in confirmed amounts of tar balls from the bp oil spill, washing ashore in texas. and in galveston, i'm wondering if you know of any recent test resul...

Misrepresent the flow rate. they're doing what they can to misrepresent the pressurization in that well and have been for a long time. i won't go onto what they're doing bp is not behaving in a way that suggests they're anxious to make everybody whole. >> i'm not on here to defend bp. >> i won't put you there. >> this is the federal government making regulation without looking at the true economic factors in play here. if you don't like this, just wait until cap and trade. >> hold on a second, alex. i have a volcano of oil that has poured hundreds of millions of barrels of oil into gulf of mex...