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Efforts in the gulf this week with a help of a third vessel that is now partially hooked up to the gushing well. officials say the tanker could almost double the amount of oil being captured per day but add it's too soon to tell if it's properly connected. it comes as the spill widens across the gulf. yesterday, more than 1,000 pounds of toxic tar balls moved from louisiana's lake pontchartrain. the coast guard is testing only tar that washed up on cocoa beach a an hour east of orlando to see if it's from the gulf spoil or from a fuel tank of a shrimp boat that recently sank nearby. what a mes...

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Officials saying they have pulled more than 1,600 tar balls from the water so far. winds from hurricane alex being blamed for pushing the crude to lake pontchartrain. the area having been fortunate that strong winds have been largely absent this summer until now. to the west as we mentioned more tar balls washing up in texas for a second consecutive days. those winds are hampering the cleanup efforts causing rough sea making it difficult to skim the water's surface. a company in canada having hit upon a novel solution like this one long ago dehydrated peat moss. not only capable of soaking up ...

The weekend. and it does appear they are coming from this spill. and we've talked so much about the tides moving east and the oil washing up east as opposed to west. so is this just the beginning as far as we know of a nightmare clean-up for texas? >> reporter: yeah. a lot of people in texas asking that. the coast guard came out earlier this evening, campbell, and said no more tar balls have come in today. and the others have been cleaned up already. he said the largest were the size of a ping pong ball. some have been test asked the results show they did come from the deepwater horizon. at fi...

This animation. were you see how the oil spill has grown in size. this tracks the oil's activity from may 7, soon after the spill, all of the way through today. you see thou hits different points along the coast. one of the first places it hit was grand isle and barataria bay in louisiana, home to one of the nation's most productive estuaries, a nursery, really for baby shrimp and red fish but if you look at the map we created, you can see how the oil keeps moving both sbeeft west. it's been working around the mississippi delta, hitting pelican island two weeks or so ago. in mississippi, 240 p...