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Here in the gulf is a setback in the containment process. a bp spokesman saying today, confirming that high winds are accounting for that wobble that we are currently seeing on the underwater pictures. the wave height is expected to decrease through the weekend but officials do say that they are now capturing slightly less oil than before the waves and the rough water made that cap wobble or jiggle. campbell? >> randi, in his briefing today admiral thad allen talked about the government's use of skimmers in the gulf, sort of this skimmer surge. explain how it's going so far. >> reporter: well,...

Hit a very unpopulated area of the world for that matter. there's a place called punta de pietra, a small community, fishing community, they were battening down and here's the convention, tony. still across parts of new orleans, that's going to be the case. even though the winds have slowed for many spots, this is a map of the buoy, here's the buoy that's the closest to the horizon right there. and the waves are still 7.2 feet. that's well above, that's significant wave height that they could put these boats back in the water. we don't think it's going to settle down for at least 48 to 72 more...

There are showers and storms up into new orleans, all the way to houston. right there, that would be lake charles and all the way back down toward harris county, there are showers and storms on the other side of florida over here. there are storms into georgia, all part of the same spin that is bringing up tropical moisture. tropical moisture, follow my arrows, follow my arrows. what is that doing to the oil that's parked right here? it's pushing it on land. there's no question about it that at this point, as we speak, that these buoys are moving up and down. this is not a beautiful map but it...

That come together and what type of movement they actually create. this animation will show you what will typically happen in order to create a tsunami. you have one plate which subducts underneath the other and you can see that the plate or the crust in the ocean floor thrusts upward. when that happens, that displaces the water and then you can see, as i put that back into play is that pushes up the water up, the tsunami is created and moves on. we think this type of earthquake happened, but the displacement wasn't as great as they initially thought. the more that plate moves the more the wat...

On tuesday. bonnie schneider now joining us here in the cnn center severe weather center. it's been a long 24 hours after the quake with all the tsunami warnings up and down the coastlines of the americas and, of course, over to tokyo. they are just now canceling the tsunami warnings for japan, but the japanese agencies haven't dropped their advisories. >> well, the japanese meteorological agency, the local agency governing the country knows their weather best, just like a lot of places have new answers. they are keeping the warnings in effect, but many have already expired. we want to take ...