looking at 1,600 people and then some who are working on this response. some 5,500 gallons of oil has been recovered by a vessel. the real nastiness is about a quarter million pounds of oily debris that has been picked up along the shore. and that includes more than 13 barrels of tar balls. all of this following some prime california coastline. we have teams that are conducting manual removal. so they re going out and physically removing product from the beach. they make sure they re doing it as safely as possible. they ve got their protective equipment on. they ll be putting it into bags and we ll be taking those bags to be properly disposed of. reporter: they are imploring beachgoers not to touch the tar, just to report it, because again, those are toxic substances. the economic impact is considerable. there are miles and miles of fisheries that should be busy along the pacific coast that are
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