that sort of thing and looking at that as a possible way to see a violation but at the moment they're not getting behind their winning candidate. savannah? >> they are not. distancing themselves is an appropriate description of their actions. kelly o'donnell in columbia, south carolina, with the story. thank you so much, kelly. all right. let's head back down to chuck in gulfport, mississippi. the president's first stop today on the tour of the three states. chuck, what can you tell us? >> all right. well, thanks, savannah. bp says some 27,000 people are involved in the cleanup effort and yet there are folks that volunteered and have been turned away. one person that set up a big website, don abrams from ocean springs here in mississippi set up a volunteer website and has been rejected basically since the second week of the spill by bp and government officials from having -- from using this list. so i mean, just ask you. have you made any progress with taking the list of volunteers