but they are telling us that it's not here. >> to me that indicates that nobody is immune from having this on top of us. >> reporter: the first potential impact from oil was found this week on hancock shore. >> this was where the bird was. >> reporter: jesse showed us a picture of this distressed bird he found in st. louis. there's little doubt in his mind that he's covered in oil. but official results are pending. >> is it oil? we think it is. but has it been confirmed? no. >> reporter: local leaders are growing frustrated waiting for answers. >> >> we've got this stuff in the ziploc bag going around. how much more evidence do we need that it is time to do something? >> people can deploy all of the boom that you can deploy but if it's not going to obviously looking at louisiana, we've seen that the boom did practically