management that owns the landfill doesn t have to listen to the county board. it has a contract with the state, so it signed a contract with bp and dumped the waste right where rocco and others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls go into your handfill? the long-term effects that we will have to endure if it, in fact if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous. reporter: like if it gets into your water? water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp why its disposing of waste in a county where the people pleaded they not? they did not respond wp we asked ken holden from waste management to take us inside the landfill so we can see why it is supposed to be safe. there are many worried that whatever is going into the landfill is going to end up in
smelly mess from one community. they don t want the oil there. they passed a resolution, saying so but bp headquartered in london and an operator in hug s houston dumped on them anyway. how did it happen? how could it happen? randi kaye is keeping it honest. reporter: if you ve been wondering where all that scooped-up, onshore oil ends up, this is mississippi s pecan grove landfill. tar balls, oiled sand and vegetation is hauled away and buried here. that even includes the cleanup crews gloves, suits, shovels and rakes, anything that s touched oil. it s one of nine landfills bp has cut deals with across the gulf to dump all this stuff. so, that must mean the communities are okay with it, too, right? wrong. connie rocco is the president of the board of supervisors in harrison county, mississippi where the pecan landfill is located. how do you feel about this oily
information to us about plans to cap the leak. and a chapter of the naacp now under fire for supporting the legalization of marijuana. just ahead the debate over drug laws and whether they unfairly target young minorities. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. they were prisoners in russia convicted of espionage. four men left vienna today completing an international spy swap. we are monitoring a flight into the washington, d.c. area right now. some or all of those four may be onboard. meanwhile, ten russian agents who pled guilty to spying on americans are already back in moscow. let s begin our coverage this hour with our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty. we re also just getting new information coming in. reporter: there is a lot of stuff happening. let s start with that plane. this afternoon, today in vienna, austria, two planes on the ground. one russian, one american. and a dramatic transfer shrouded in secrecy. you had ten alleged russian s
don lemon, you re up next. fred, you re the best. you re so cute. live from stud 7 at the cnn headquarters, a cnn exclusive on this friday, july 9th. everyone we talked to who has seen the dispersed oil in the water looked like droplets of water, they say that the majority of that is within the first 15 feet of the water column. so we re going to hopefully go down to 30 feet and look up and see how it s affecting the amount of light that comes down. boy, i m anticipating that. frederica has been talking about that with our reporter in the gulf. a cnn team will dive below the oily muck. we will have live coverage throughout the next two hours. look at the chaos there. anxious moments in oakland. the verdict in a trial of a former police officer leads to street skirmishes and looting. a judge s decision may bring the issue of same-sex marriage a step closer to the u.s. supreme court. i m don lemon. tony is off today. those stories and your comments right here, rig
of days ago. unfortunately all the oysters that came in were actually dead as a result of what s happening out there. these are the dredges themselves. typically they ll bring in 180 to 200 bags of oysters and each of those bags you have a couple hundred oysters. imagine all of that. now look at this boat. it is in a complete state of disrepair, hardly anything is happening here at all and people can t even maintain the repairs that are necessary to happen. if you look over there, you see boat after boat after boat. this is what s happening. typically, they bring in $5,000 a day, that would meet a lot of their costs. now they re all about $1,000 in debt and no one knows what tomorrow brings. that s just a little bit of a glimpse of what s happening here. again, so many boats, so many people telling us that exact same story. just a few small examples of the enormous impact people are starting to feel down here. yet even as they re fighting for their lives, the big decisions ab