others scooping it up with skimmers, desperately trying to prevent the nearly 13-square-mile slick from spreading further down a coastline teeming with wildlife. hopefully this doesn t turn out too bad. there s concern about the sealife and the birds. reporter: we went out on the water and saw it first-hand. i just bent down and this is what i scooped up. this is the kind of oil that s being leaked and you can see it s hardened once it hits the water, but the ocean here is covered with this stuff. fish and wildlife experts rescuing birds from that sludge. residents here devastated. it s heartbreaking. i live here locally and i just came down to see how widespread it was and it s quite disappointing. reporter: the ceo of amplify energy, the company that owns the pipeline. saying they notified the coast guard early saturday of a possible spill and capped both ends of the pipe by sunday. claiming no more oil was leaking. the company releasing a statement today, saying it s working