we go to gary tuchman live. what do you see? reporter: when it comes to live reports, this is the most remote live report i have ever done, we re four hours away from the united states. this is chandeleur island, louisiana, because this is where it s expected to get the oil first. this is one of the orange booms here because the storm put it on the land. it s no good anymore. the island is not overrun yet but the bad news, the oil is literally 100 yards away. we re 35 miles south of the gulfport of mississippi. these are the chandelier islands. and you re looking at the boom, it looks like foam, but this is the oil from the massive oil slick. people on the coastline obviously in louisiana, mississippi, alabama and florida are very concerned, but we can tell you because we took a 3 1/2-hour boat ride to get out
the well at a staggering 12,000 gallons a day. gary joins us live. what did you see, gary? reporter: when it comes to live reports, this is the most remote live report i have ever done, we re four hours away from the united states. this is chandelier island, louisiana, because this is where it s expected to get the oil first. they put this here because it s no good anymore. the good news so far, chandeleur island, has not been overrun yet, but the bad news, the oil is literally 100 yards away. we re 35 miles south of the gulfport of mississippi. this is the louisiana islands and you re looking at the oil water threatening to come on this island. the protective thing is the boom, looks like foam but this is the oil from the massive oil slick. people on the coastline of louisiana, mississippi and alabama very concerned. we can tell you because we took
no good anymore. the island is not overrun yet but the bad news, the oil is literally 100 yards away. we re 35 miles south of the gulfport of mississippi. this is the louisiana islands and you re looking at the oil water threatening to come on this island. the protective thing is the boom, looks like foam but this is the oil from the massive oil slick. people on the coastline of louisiana, mississippi and alabama very concerned. we can tell you because we took a 3 1/2 boat ride, that the oil is 35, 40 miles away. you can see if it wasn t for this protective boom it would be on these islands, they re amazing wildlife refuges, where migratory birds come. the islands used to be 20 miles long, but because of hurricanes over the years, katrina, george,