and you can feel the vapor in the air. i saw what i'll describe as little pancake clusters of oil along the shoreline. and i have described it as something like an egg yoke. if you push it, it kind of spreads out. and so, we don't want people to disturb those little clusters so that the cleanup can be more easily -- um -- maintained. >> reporter: the parent company responsible is amplify energy. their ceo said sunday, they will do everything in their power to make this a quick recovery. the spill happened about 4 and a half miles offshore from a pipeline that connects from a processing platform to the shore. divers were in place sunday evening to try and investigate at the potential source site what might have caused the leak. the national transportation safety board, also, sent investigators to help figure out what occurred. natasha chen, cnn, huntington beach, california. and for more on this, we want to turn to our meteorologist, pedram javaheri. so, pedram, what are you seeing in terms of where all of this oil is going?