California oil spill renews calls to ban offshore drilling

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities sought to determine the scope of the damage.

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