positive reason to stay with jordanian family and get away from his life of depression and drug use in tennessee. gary tuchman joins us now. do the gunman s parents acknowledge the possibility their son committed the murders in the name of islamic extremism. they say it s depression. depression doesn t lead most people to kill other people. right, andersen. according to the family representative the parents did say in their son s weaker moments he did get into evil ideology and extremist idea. but they also said they re convince heedd he never talked to any extremists or outside ears but becoming a domestic terrorist. gary appreciate it. a lot to learn. just ahead, the escape and massive manhunt of two inmates in upstate new york. tonight we have new, frankly fascinating information about how the two convicted murderers, kimmers, managed to escape. how long it took to plan and tunnel out. and the pitfalls along the way.
monumental task, george. the amount of oil spilled was six times the sieze of an olympc size swimming pool. what they have is specialized boating equipment that carries behind it a boom. the boom has a curtain. i m going to step off screen so you can see the whole thing. the curtain lies one foot beneath the surface of the water and that allows it to take the top part of that oil sheen. remember, oil often floats to the top surface of the ocean. so far, they ve deployed 4500 feet with 18 skimmers that put it on the ship and safely remove it from the ocean. now, there are concerns that this oil sheen has spread quite dramatically, wednesday, it was about 9.5 square miles.
combat this oil spill? they have deployed 4.5 thousand feet of boom. there is a 1 foot curtain that drags just under the surface of the water to help contain that sheen of oil. which by the way at this stage is about as thick as a layer of paint on a wall. there is three skimmers. those are basically oil sucking machines that deposit it back on to the boat and help contain that oil as well. 15 more are on their way to help contain this oil spill. originally, 2.5 thousand barrels spilled. that s about 105,000 gallons. so far they have only recovered about 10% of that oil spill. so that puts it all into perspective for you. by the way, just to give you an indication across the united
thousand feet of boom behind these boats that are trying to clean up the oil spill. this has a curtain that is about deployed about a foot underneath the water. so that helps clean up that oil slick or that oil sheen on the very top surface of the ocean. they ve also had three skimmers which is a device that pulls in the oil and draws it into one of the boats sentra fujis and it helps contain that oil and clean it up very, very quickly. we ve had about 200,000 barrels spent. at about 42 gallons per barrel, that s about 105 gallons. they ve cleaned up about 10% of that so far. noaa has responded to over 100 oil incidents just in 2014 alone. so this is a common occurrence. not every single oil spill, quote/unquote, george, makes
time remember there are so many other ways to pay, and people are using cash less. so the numbers are still going up on the hackers breaking in and getting your information. all right. now one of the ways they do it, you re right about this they use skimmers. and i heard about this. and i always look for them but i probably couldn t detect them. explain how they are and how they work. they are a tried and true technology that criminals have been using for years. they are devices that you put on to the atm, and you could put them in several different places including the card reader itself or on the pin pad and often there is a little camera that s taking a picture of you as you tap in your pin. so they re grabbing the information on the magnetic strip yeah. of the debit card and then the little miniature camera captures your personal identification number and armed with that what do they do? create fake plastic? that s exactly what they do.