>> the company overseeing the oil spill response says it will be three more weeks before they can hook up another ship to collect the oil. retired coast guard admiral says the helix producer vessel, they call it is partially hooked up now but he says crews need calmer weather and calmer seas before they can finish the job. we're told the helix producer can collect more than a million gallons a day. that would more than double the amount that crews are now able to capture. at least what we're led to believe. but it's not clear how much more oil would still be leaking from that blown out well at the bottom of the gulf. phil keating on the scene in grand isle, louisiana, tonight much how much is the weather still affecting the skimming operations there? >> shep, the skimming operations are not happening. zero barrels of oil skimmed from the surface of the gulf of mexico today. yesterday, similarly bad weather. 218 barrels all day were successfully skimmed and removed from the surface. today, there's no skimming going on. there's no new containment boom going on. the beach crews hired by b.p.