continue to use every single available resource at our disposal, including potentially the department of defense to address the incident. reporter: british petroleum which owned the well and is response for the cleanup and its costs formally asked for military assistance. we are right now we are in the process of determining what, if any, help we could provide at the president s direction to help alleviate the problem that is that is under way down there in the gulf. reporter: help that will have to come fast to keep the oil offshore. in areas like this, they make their living off these waters, fisherman and others are using their own boats now to deliver supplies and barricades to the front lines. hoping they can help to block the flow of oil inland. officials, again, saying that it looks like it will make landfall here along the louisiana coast stimulate tonight. live in vince, louisiana, jay gray. jim, back to you. two minimumers trapped in a collapsed western
southern charles county, st. mary s county, a tornado warning for about the next ten to 12 minutes or so. this is the one cell we re seeing on the rest of the storm system. the same one that moves through the planes in areas of the deep south through the weekend. so this is what s left of it. quite a bit of lightning in these storms, too, folks. intensity going up, not down. the last two minutes there, seemed to have dropped. but the last ten minutes, 99 lightning strike, whether it s cloud to cloud or cloud to ground. quite a bit of lightning there currently and demby bay to leonard town area. seek shelter inside if you re anywhere east along the line of the storm. a tornado warning for st. mary and southern charles county. if there are any reports of damage, whether it s high gusts or from the light anyone or the possible rotation that s taking place in the cell. ten minutes ago now the national weather service issued the tornado warning on the cell. a long line of storms g