like a tsunami. angela chris felt helpless as the river carried her child away. my 16-year-old son was camping about 100 yards from us, and we were screaming because we couldn t get to him. he came floating down the river with his little buddy. he said, mommy, please save me. my husband went back and he was in the tree, and we were coming in. more than 100 searchers are fanning out again this morning for that loan camper still unaccounted for. catherine calloway joins us from langley. what s making the search so difficult right now? reporter: it s the same thing that s been difficult all along. we went out yesterday with one of the mother elite teams, and what they re facing as you mentioned, the water rose up more than 20 feet off the river bed there, and when it rose, it took with it buildings and trees and debris, leaving it sometimes up in the trees, and it was
another busy week. bp presenting a plan that it says could capture 50 barrels of oil each day. according to the letter obtained by cnn, the plan could be in place by the end of the month. at any moment, president obama begins making his way to the region, his two-day trip will take him to mississippi, alabama and florida. tomorrow he ll return to the white house for an address to the nation. he ll discuss the growing crisis as the environmental damage spreads and the economic impact worsens. then on wednesday the president will hold his first meeting with bp executives. he s ordering the oil giant to set aside millions of dollars for the people and businesses suffering right now through financial hardships. meantime, the company has installed new sensors on the underwater geyser with hopes of better assessing just how much oil is really gushing into the sea. it could take several days before those sensors can even provide some useful information. let s begin with president ob
photo op, and i don t see any real action taken as a result of the visit. reporter: so when the president arrives in mississippi later this morning, he will be briefed by admiral thad allen, who obviously is the government s point-person for this major disaster. and then he ll sit down for a roundtable with some local business leaders, some officials and also residents. a chance for the president to hear firsthand their concerns. do we have any idea what the president will say in his address tomorrow night, dan, as you pointed out there with the gentleman that you talked to, that there s a lot of criticism that these are just photo ops. reporter: that s right. the president, first of all, the reason they wanted to do the address so soon after the president s visit is because he s able to go back with some sort of evidence of what he just saw. it is a, listen, this is what i saw, this is the progress being made, but this is where we still have to go. a senior administration offici
obama s return to the gulf coast. it is his fourth visit since the disaster began nearly two months ago. dan lothian is joining us now from alabama. so dan, walk us through the president s next 24 hours. reporter: good morning, kira. the president has been criticized for weeks that he has not been as open gauged as he should be, but the administration wanted to show that the president is on top of the situation getting a firsthand assessment of this operation to contain the oil spill, but also the president will hear and have some tough words for bp, trying to hold bp accountable. we ll see some firsts from this particular trip while the president is making his fourth trip to the gulf when the president comes here, it will be the first time he comes to alabama, florida and mississippi since the oil spill back in april. in addition to that, the president will also go out on the water for the first time. he ll hop onto a ferry not far from here, a chance to get an up-close view of the