questions and answers. i ll facilitate that. and the person who answers the question will step forward to the mic and we will go from there. captain rebecca orr for coast guard los angeles. good afternoon. on scene coordinator with u.s. coast guard and los angeles long beach. i ll talk to you for just a couple minutes what we know about the oil spill that is occurring right now, what we re doing about it, and ask for your help. what we know is that yesterday morning there was a discharge of oil, heavy crude oil that took place. we assess about four and a half miles off the coast of huntington beach and newport beach. it s created a very large sheen. than sheen is approaching our pristine california beaches, which i know is very upsetting to the citizens here in southern california. we have been monitoring this