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Your answer. this is mississippi peek can grove landfill. what is gathered on shore, tar balls, oiled sand and vegetation and hauled away and dumped here, including the gloves, suits, shovelings and rakes, anything that's touched oil. it's one of nine landfills bp has cut deals with across the gulf to dump all of this stuff. so that must mean the communities are okay with it, too, right? wrong. connie rocco is the president of the board of supervisors in harrison county, mississippi, where the pecan grove landfill is. >> we're tired of being dumped on. we don't want it. it's valuable landfill ...

Right now, they seem to have taken a break because they all went into their bus and they left. but they have been one by one picking up these little tar balls and the thing is is that they want to try and protect the sand. so they want to try and pick them up without picking up the sand. it's really tedious work. >> just one more gulf coast beach being affected. thank you so much. we are going to be bringing you today here on cnn a live look beneath the surface of the gulf. we have a team that's out there traveling to a spot for a dive to give you, again, a look like you have never seen before...

Stop it. we have nothing within our means to contain this. >> reporter: and, don, i want you to take a look at this part of the beach. you see over there, that's the harbor, and they're trying to make sure that the harbor is open. they have booms over there but they say they're not really doing anything. the water goes right over them, and they have got these small boats that are surveying the area and also picking up some of the tar balls, and they want to make sure that this area is open because those boat owners are leasing that area, and they want to make sure that they don't pull the boat...

Technical errors -- >> that's what it's like out in nature, a lot of variables. >> now we're here at this site, it's one of hundreds of abandoned oil rigs and we're going to leave here and head out to another site that's a little further away from the mississippi so we can clearly know if we see a film in the water that that could be a result of the dispersant/oil combination. >> we'll continue to keep up with amber and our crew out there right now. in long beach, mississippi, it was just a couple of days ago that they started to see tar patties show up. one in particular certainly caused al...

Flight over the u.s. oil slick today. and more oil on the shores. tar mats, not tar balls. they are now washing up on texas and mississippi coastlines. details for you in a live report. happens right now, the government's point man on the oil disaster giving an update. we are monitoring the briefing by retired coast guard general admiral thad allen. stay with us for the latest on that, including any new developments on the blimp flyover or the drilling of the relief well. you heard me mentioning the size of large mats, the consistency of liver, that is how they are describinged oil washi...