others scooping it up with skimmers, desperately trying to prevent the nearly 13-square-mile slick from spreading further down a coastline teeming with wildlife. hopefully this doesn t turn out too bad. there s concern about the sealife and the birds. reporter: we went out on the water and saw it first-hand. i just bent down and this is what i scooped up. this is the kind of oil that s being leaked and you can see it s hardened once it hits the water, but the ocean here is covered with this stuff. fish and wildlife experts rescuing birds from that sludge. residents here devastated. it s heartbreaking. i live here locally and i just came down to see how widespread it was and it s quite disappointing. reporter: the ceo of amplify energy, the company that owns the pipeline. saying they notified the coast guard early saturday of a possible spill and capped both ends of the pipe by sunday. claiming no more oil was leaking. the company releasing a statement today, saying it s working
about what s happening. let s go and listen to what s happening. local dignitaries, the mayor of newport beach is here, as well as county supervisor i m sorry. katrina foley. basically what we re going to do is we re going to have these unified commanders give a statement. the coast guard, federal coordinator will talk a little bit about operations. the lieutenant will address wildlife, environment and public volunteers. the local on-scene coordinator, ms. nicholson, will talk about beach closures and other local issues county wide. we also have dr. clayton chou to address any questions about public health. as i mentioned, the ceo of amplify energy, martin wilshire, is here as well. so after the brief comments, we ll go through and we ll have