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So many people are sitting here -- i'm "sully" actually in sly dell, not too far away, and they're thinking how the in the world did this stuff, this is tar ball, how is this traveling? about 160 miles all the way from that leak site here as far as inland now as we have seen covering this story here inside lake pontchartrain. let me just take this go off of here, and you can kind of see. a lot of people have been asking me, no, it doesn't smell at all. but i was talking to the president of the parish here, and he told me they collected 600 some pounds of this stuff just yesterday. of and the o...

Some people not as much surprised, not as much alarmed. i did speak with john lopez, one of the directors of the foundation here, the lake pontchartrain basin foundation, and he had been worried about the inevitable, as he described it to me on the phone. and he said he had been going on these recon missions week after week, checking out the passes, seeing if the oil had quite made it in lake pontchartrain. here is what john lopez says. wind is the driving force to bring this oil in this lake. >> it was an east wind we had the last few days, pushed it back toward the lake. certainly not someth...

Like new york, philadelphia and the nation's capital. the heat wave may not break for the rest of the week. it was ten degrees warmer in philadelphia than it was in atlanta yesterday. >> wow, the front line of the oil fight now stretching to texas where authorities say that tar has washed up in galveston. it is more than 400 miles west of the oil spill. tar balls also found in louisiana's lake ponchartrain. cleanup crews have collected about 1,000 pounds of tar balls from the area. west virginia senator, robert byrd, will be laid to rest in arlington. the longest serving member of congress d...

Service that's been at fault here when there was a bush -- by the way, it wasn't. it came from clinton, bush, etc. the point is when they got that study, when they were told that this could be dangerous and something could happen, that's when you go to the mms and say, hey, what are you doing to prevent a massive catastrophe like the one we're experiencing right now? >> interestingly enough, now obama administration, change things at mms and ken salazar according to "the wall street journal" report last september, ken salazar was starting to say that they had resolved the ethical problems at m...

Dead. 150 rescued. mammals including dolphins and whales, and 53 of the 58 that they have found have been found dead. wolf. >> that is heartbreaking, indeed. if you can, ask your photographer to pan aside, because i see the folks beside you at the beach in pensacola, and what is the situation like on this day? >> well, i took a walk down, there and we have bon the beach on and off several days, and there were a lot of tar balls on, there all over the place, and you dig down six inches, and you can find the tar balls, but today, we were out there, and there isn't any. you can see that the weath...