come forward with. in fact, on may 14th, a professor estimated 70,000 barrels might be leaking. he said that on our broadcast. he did that after viewing 30 seconds of video that bp reluctantly released and yet the president of bp says they don t have the technology. they don t know about the technology. by the way, the technology offered them on may 4th was finally used weeks later. the damage was already done, both to bp s reputation but more importantly to everyone here in the gulf. a lot happened today. the people of florida were reminded of that when they got a sense of what louisiana has been dealing with for weeks. oil, washing up in pensacola beach today, covering nine miles of their white sand. people there have been dreading it for weeks now. they knew, of course, it was coming. finally seeing it doesn t make it any easier to deal with. we begin with the way louisiana is trying to stop the advance of oil in their marshes.