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Two miners were trapped. but now we've just got breaking news in that one miner has been found alive, and crews are working to get him out. we'll have more on it. and the obama administration says the cost of cleaning up that giant oil spill in the gulf of mexico will fall on british petroleum. a white house spokesperson said the president and officials say is much worse than estimated before. nbc news environmental expert looks at an effort to clean up that spill which threatens to become a major environmental disaster. >> reporter: fighting a wind pattern that could bring the spill ashore ...

98,000 gallons of that disper dispersent. >> you warned us about this. the wind pattern would change if we didn't have the oil off the water in a few days it was going to change direction. that's why i tell people to listen to you. stay safe. this isn't like a hurricane, it doesn't matter if it doesn't get to populated areas because it's going to hit wildlife, mammals, animal, shrimp, oysterses. you were talking about this earlier. remember when i was in hurricane gustav and i was on grand isle i was staying at the home of the guy who bought a lot of shrimp with the shrimpers. i was on the pho...

Oil leaking at 5,000 barrels a day. and word now of a third leak under water. a bp spokesman says it could be 90 days before the spill is cleaned up. and oil could hit parts of the shoreline tomorrow. the massive cleanup effort could cost $1 billion. and so far crews have scooped up only 250,000 gallons of oil and water. nbc's chief environmental correspondent anne thompson breaks down what it takes to fight this spill. >> reporter: fighting a wind pattern that could bring the spill ashore by friday night, crews ignited a controlled burn of the oil in the gulf of mexico. >> like any new techno...

So we're seeing clear conditions across much of europe. the wind pattern shifting a little bit, though, don, and we're expecting to see some of this ash move over towards germany, into the netherlands by tuesday and wednesday so they could have additional problems then. >> jacqui, we talked about the space shuttle last night, it's not going to be affected by this, we think, but it is scheduled to land tomorrow morning. still on track? >> yeah, tomorrow morning, 8:48. and it's unusual decent, don by the way, too, for the second time only since 2003, they're expected to be actually moving over t...

News, but britain official as well as france officials tell us that they are not going to be opening those airports for tomorrow. the ash cloud, for the most part, really focused way up here. and that is over towards iceland. so we're seeing clear conditions across much of europe. the wind pattern shifting a little bit, though, don, and we're expecting to see some of this ash move over towards germany, into the netherlands by tuesday and wednesday, to so they could have additional problems then. >> jacqui, we talked about the space shuttle last night, it's not going to be affected by this, we ...