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Your exercise in. jim, thanks. >> you get out of the heat, jim. new this morning, tar balls. turning up in new places on day 78 of the gulf oil spill. cleanup crews collect ad thousand pounds of tar from the area. oil has also washed up on the beaches of galveston, texas. improving relations between palestinians and israelis, president obama's agenda today when he meets with prime minister binyamin netanyahu. israeli leader now says he's ready to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. settlements in the gaza blockade are sticking points for negotiations. big stars, big giving. ...

500,000 barrels of oil per day. it has only collected about 60% of that over 77 days. authorities confirming that tar balls from the ruptured bp well have washed up near galveston, texas and along the southern part of louisiana's lake ponchartrain. that's where our brooke baldwin is this morning. you have been looking for those tar balls. have you found any yet? >> i haven't. trust me. my crew has been poking a little fun at me. i have just been looking. now that the sun is up, i haven't seen any. it is a beautiful tuesday morning here. it doesn't smell oily. the only thing i smell is fish. bu...

He's kissing his summer job good-bye. take a listen. now that there are tar balls in the lake you can how may that affect your job? >> i can't get live bait in. so that's where we make most of our money from. >> reporter: because they shut down the commercial fishing? >> yep, from the highway down to lake born and through hope dale and gulf pretty much. all shut down. >> yeah, they're around. hopefully they'll eventually degrade over time. they don't seem to be that bad. there is really no oil sheen. the tar balls, whether it's part of the emulsification process that bp is doing off shore and ...

Golf ball but imagine some of these fishermen out on their fourth of july holiday weekend yesterday. they are seeing some of the tar balls saying it is simply devastating. >> it gets on your fingers and you wash it and wash it and it smears. >> didn't think we would see it in here but looks like we are going to. that's sad. it really is. what else can you say about it? >> it's sad. some people say it is alarming. one man i spoke with had who is more or less in charge of making sure this lake is clean, john lopez essentially said to me, he is not surprised. he said,look, he has been out here on...

Didn't move. we are keeping our eyes on action down here into the gulf. see the swirl over here, a nontropical area of low pressure which made land fall last night. it is bringing in torrential downpours. we saw six inches of rain in louisiana. one other area of tropical concern is down here toward the yucatan. the hurricane center putting kind of a low probability on development here but we likely will see something happen in the next couple of days moving in a similar alex path. even if it doesn't develop into anything, we are concerned about the wave action over the oil spill. >> all right,...