possible from coming too far up the shore. fredericka? under ordinary circumstances, chris, is this a beach that is strictly for wild life preservation or a beach where usually at this time of year it would be covered in people enjoying the coastline? reporter: covered in people. sport fishermen, huge industry here. as we were driving into this area, you could see all the little stores, the homes, where normally there s a lot of people here. the fishermen come here. they can make pretty much all of their money for the year, 80% of it, in just four months, may, june, july, august. those are the prime months. that s what they are missing. as you can see the only crowds here are the people trying to save what s left of the beach. got it. chris lawrence, thanks so much, from grand isle, louisiana. well, she is now in safe hands. the american teen hoping to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo. she got into trouble and was stranded in the middle of the
responsibility it was for different things. right now the president said it s time for people to start taking responsibility and to stop pointing fingers. but i can tell you, here on the gulf coast, we re running into people. we re running into commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, people who own real estate, people who are renting out homes, who are renting out vacation properties, they are all hurting right now because of what this oil spill has done. and they re worried that this pain that is caused by this is not going to disappear any time soon. what is the latest on how much oil is leaking out? the estimates started at a thousand. now it s at 5,000. where is it right now? what we know is that noaa came up with this estimate of 5,000 barrels a day by using satellite imagery, looking at that oil spill, trying to figure out how much oil was bubbling up to the top every day. came up with this estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. bp has been using that as well. now once bp put out th
bp plan. cnn s chris lawrence is in grand isle, louisiana, with crews that are trying to save the oil-soaked birds and the beaches continue to be loaded with people trying to clean up, not necessarily beachgoers, who would normally be here. reporter: the crowds that would normally be here just aren t here. normally it would be a major area for sport fishermen to come. you can take a look, some of the last crews finishing up here on the beach. earlier, we had a look at some of those trying to rescue only the birds just coated with oil. that affects their ability to regulate their body temperature. many of them die. some that are able to be captured for the first time we were able to see these birds brought into the triage area,