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Said on several occasions, even if we contain the well and even if the well is capped in mid-august, there still a significant amount of oil out there and the oil recovery and the impacts of this oil will extend well into the fall in terms of oil coming ashore and tar balls and beach cleanup and then we will be moving at that point to the damage resource assessment trying to understand the long-term impact of the event. >> there have been some confirmed amount of tar balls from the bp oil spill washing ashore in texas and in galveston, i'm wondering, if you know of any test results on the tar ...

Also include gulfport where people are not be encouraged to get into the water. yes, they're being encouraged to come to the beach. but to get into the water there have been those who surmise that it's not safe to get in the water? >> yeah, that's really interesting. because i actually spoke to the mayor, the mayor of long beach just about this issue. he said, look, the beaches aren't officially closed. but people are acting like it is closed. and you see workers on that beach that have been picking up little tar balls and tar pieces. but there definitely are people who are coming to the beach...

Washed ashore a tantalizing mystery. >> what caught my eye was the red bright color. >> reporter: colt swartz was on the coastline. >> i didn't find any tar balls. i found a camera. >> a red nikon in waterproof case with dozens of photos and in a fascinating twist, an underwater video that schultz realized wasn't taken by a person but by a sea turtle. >> and some where along the way the fin got caught by a strap and the camera was turned on. it was shorkts filmed, and directed by a sea turtle. >> reporter: it quickly became a youtube sensation with millions of hitting in just a few weeks. so t...

To another. been in haiti for a while. and there, you can see the resilience. here there's an interesting thing because so many people love to come down and pick this stuff up and take it off. they're not sure there's science involved and there's health issues involved. so it builds the frustration. >> people are mad about this. and they -- everybody understands that. and i think channeling that anger to something positive is the thing to do. i was just showing you the whole application where you can come out and take pictures on the beach or birds in oil spills and put them up. >> i just foun...

>> rocco says the county board passed a resolution not to accept any waste in this community. that doesn't matter, waste management that owns the landfill doesn't have to look at what the board says. it answers to the state. so it signed a contract with bp and started dumping the oily waste right where rocco and plenty of others feared they would. >> what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls in this whole mixture going to the landfill. >> the long-term effects that we will have to endure, if it, in fact, is -- if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous to -- >> it gets into you...