other animals covered in oil. so that s a good sign. there s also a few boats out here that are attacking this spill basically skimming it and collecting it in the water. this is one of those spills that originated from the ruptured pipeline in that direction and came toward the water and joining me live is the santa barbara county supervisor. you have a concern about the stretch of coast not only environmentally but economically. absolutely. aside from the important e environmental and ecological areas one of the most pristine areas in the world we are concerned for the economy. memorial day weekend is coming up, we re concerned whether this park will be able to be open by then or not and that will impact our local economy. we hope you are able to get it open and the other state beaches opened as well. that s the santa barbara county supervisor. we should know that refugio
there would be more than 3,000 people coming to these state beaches all along this pristine coast. and now they have one colossal mess on their hands. the reason you don t see any workers addressing this right now is because they re on some sort of a break. and the tide also came in. what they were doing earlier is they were grabbing rakes among other things wearing protective suits, and raking together all of these balls of tar. also out at sea, no ships near me right now but several of them were taking booms and collecting oil that way and skimming it as best they could. their concern is that it will move further south and east and another state beach el capitan. right now this beach completely closed as they try to clean until mess. and you re talking about the environment. from here you will see some pelicans. you will see a we saw a
region, not just in louisiana, mississippi, parts of alabama as well tonight. harris: wow, just think about that you are moving from one location to try to get to the next to get away from what might happen and it happens in that area. i had not heard it in a that detail. thank you. they just can t get away. harris: mississippi reopening gulf coast casinos now that isaac is a memory there. the states department of environmental quality has closed all state beaches over concerns. debris from isaac may be contaminating the water. that would put a damper on badly needed tourism money and far from the only obstacle people there are facing as you might imagine. they are getting set for the daunting clean up after that storm. phil keating is live in biloxi, mississippi tonight, phil? the river s basin, harris, all along the gulf remains swollen and flooded. here in southern coastal mississippi all rivers are expected to crest at levels not seen in several years. which is the river, a
up nearly 26 billion dollars budget shortfall that we have been talking so much about and 60 million hard to say where the money is going to come from to clean this mess up, jamie. it s a mess and the rain, is it over now, done with southern california? well, it s not raining right now, but we just can t really seem to get a break, in fact, late tuesday another strong system is expected to move in. it s not as big, we understand from meteorologist as the storm amounts that we saw over the last seven days, but you can imagine the ground here already soaked, already saturated, so just a little bit of rain can hurt. and also, many of the sewer systems around the state backed up, causing problems with contaminated flood water, as a result. five state beaches around the state have been closed and of course the threat is real for mudslides and the ground is so saturated that mudslides can happen day, even weeks after the last raindrops fall so that s something that the
the floodwaters, sewage contamination, it rained for seven days out here, keep in mind, dropping up to 13 inches of water in some areas. that has caused a back up with some of the sewage systems around the state, and as a result four state beaches are going to be closed, one up near the san francisco bay area, the others down here in southern california. but, boy, the golden state not alone, much of the southwest pummeled by this storm. parts of utah are underwater. a county in northern arizona declaring a state of emergency. high waters sweeping away at least six homes in beaver dam, arizona. that is up along the arizona/nevada line, 90 miles northeast of las vegas where the virgin river has spilled over: nevada has seen its fair share of problems. aerial pictures in nevada show cars underwater. people have been putting out sandbags doing anything they can to keep the mud and muck out of