that diesel fuel has already burned up, which is what we saw on flames over the last couple of days, or if that is still intact under water. they are still trying to assess that. that was the latest information we had from yesterday afternoon. the rig can no longer be seen on the gulf of mexico. what you can see is a one mile by five-mile sheen of what officials call a crude oil mix off the gulf of mexico. right now we have observed from the air, a one mile by five mile sheen of crude oil, crude oil mix and rainbow sheening. this is a rainbow sheen with a dark center that we presume to be crude oil mix. skimmers are on the scene already working to collect this. reporter: as officials begin to collect the sheen off of the
figure out how much oil could be leaking into the waters off louisiana. more than 300,000 gallons could spill into the gulf based on the amount of oil the rig pulled out daily. there was also diesel fuel on board. right now we have observed from the air a one by five mile sheen of crude oil mix and light sheen, rainbow sheen. we do not have an estimate of the amount of crude emanating from the well head. the containers were compromised during the explosion that we observed today, but suffice it to say that 700,000 gallons of diesel is either still intact and below the surface or it s gone up with the explosion. air and water rescue teams continue to search for the 11 people missing since the catastrophic blast. officials say it is still possible that they may find them alive. but they fear the missing workers may have been near the site of the explosion and unable to escape. an investigation is under way to
tastes like water. this is fine. it is. it s amazing. just in time? i ll leave that for you. and all right. this a phenomenal demonstration this, is just one of many ideas. but let me quickly ask you. have you got lots that have material you can make available to the gulf coast? we have about 100,000 pounds. we re limited on the resource. what we ll do is polish the sheen. use other materials to get the bulk oil and rainbow sheen you can see in parking lots? that is our forte. we can pull that off. we re treating it and will use eight ounces per cell. there are 8,000 cells. wow, thank you very much. there you go. thank you. will the president s claim to be talk together people in the gulf coast region so he d