ten days, it s hurricane season, nothing is guaranteed, bp couching this expectation as saying it is, quote, unlikely. martha: what about this weather? we ve seen the two vessels hoping to step up the skimming efforts. is more bad weather coming there? the word is today and tomorrow could be adverse. however, starting friday, there might be a 9-day window of some pretty clear weather. it s gorgeous in bell chase right now but yesterday, along the beaches around the gulf of mexico and grand isle, there was no beach cleanup happening, all the workers had the day off the weather was so bad. skimming operations were zero yesterday, the day before, 218 barrels were skimmed but tonight, dealing with the heat in pensacola, florida, while beach korean-up crews are working at night, using flashlights and lighting rigs on the trucks, scooping up the oily tar balls there, and of course, just yesterday outside of new orleans, lake pontchartrain, 100 pounds of additional tore balls were found and