around that and we are on the outer ring. if you go down four or five blocks, that s where the activity is. we have seen d.c. police and the transit police and unmarked police which federal agents as well, and military police move in here at a very high rate of speed. and not a lot of civilian activity at this point at all, chuck, so being kept four to five blocks away, we don t have access right now to anybody who has substantial information. we re just seeing the assets move in here at a very high rate of speed. still, more than an hour, of course, after this incident first occurred. tom, we should remind people that always the initial reports, we re getting one source, it s raw material in many ways that s coming in. some of it s from police scanners, some of it s from sourcing on the ground and we know that a lot of the information changes as this goes on. we want to obviously warn viewers of that who have become accustomed to knowing that
many days, the situation has changed several times. the well was initially recapped. then it wasn t capped. we found as of yesterday additional breaches. our response has been commensurate with that each time. and if the information changes, so will the response of the white house. right now they feel more confident than yesterday. that s not saying a whole lot though, shepard. shepard: certainly isn t. major garrett live on the north lawn. teams are trying to contain this spill and they have a lot of variables to consider. because, to predict how this oil slick will move, you have to consider not only the waters and the wind conditions, but the oil itself. the oil that s being released is a light to medium crude, so it s a different type of oil than that released in at exxon valdez spill. when it first emerges, it s in a much more liquid form. as it is exposed to weathering for a number of days, it takes on a different texture. shepard: because of that,