boom, right? well, how much of that boom looks like what i saw on my trip to the gulf? untethered from its pickets, unanchored, piled up on the shore doing absolutely nothing because nobody s around to maintain it. if you know absolutely nothing about how to use boom to protect shoreline from oil, from anything encroaching that you want to keep off that shoreline, if you know absolutely nothing about it, you probably still know enough to know that this isn t supposed to be what it looks like. what we re seeing right here, we re in cam nada bay, you can see these bamboo poles sticking up, in this big line here, the poles stretch behind me. those poles are supposed to be the anchor holding that absorbant boom in place. it s not working all that well. we re here with dr. mike blum from tulane, professor of
the need to do it and do it right is urgent and ongoing and it hasn t been done yet. in this hour we continue to try to illuminate this critical element of the biggest story in the country. we had our first oil contact in the state of mississippi in mississippi sound and some islands to the west. louisiana s been impacted and the threat is shifting to mississippi and alabama. that s thad allen heading up the government response to the bp oil disaster, explaining what winds from the south and the west bring now. they bring this. oil on barrier islands, in alabama, and in mississippi. they also bring reports of an oil slick visible in the water, nine miles off the coast of florida and preparations to try to keep that oil from coming ashore in places like pensacola. that s all in addition to the 125 miles of louisiana coastline that s been hit by oil thus far. some of that is beach. sandy beach. but most of what s been hit by oil isn t beach. most of it looks like this. land