Management that owns the landfill doesn t have to listen to the county board. it has a contract with the state, so it signed a contract with bp and dumped the waste right where rocco and others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls go into your handfill? the long-term effects that we will have to endure if it, in fact if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous. reporter: like if it gets into your water? water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp why its disposing of waste in a county where the people pleaded they not? they did not respond wp we asked ken holden from waste management to take us inside the landfill so we can see why it is supposed to be safe. there are many worried that whatever is going into the landfill is going to end up in
don lemon, you re up next. fred, you re the best. you re so cute. live from stud 7 at the cnn headquarters, a cnn exclusive on this friday, july 9th. everyone we talked to who has seen the dispersed oil in the water looked like droplets of water, they say that the majority of that is within the first 15 feet of the water column. so we re going to hopefully go down to 30 feet and look up and see how it s affecting the amount of light that comes down. boy, i m anticipating that. frederica has been talking about that with our reporter in the gulf. a cnn team will dive below the oily muck. we will have live coverage throughout the next two hours. look at the chaos there. anxious moments in oakland. the verdict in a trial of a former police officer leads to street skirmishes and looting. a judge s decision may bring the issue of same-sex marriage a step closer to the u.s. supreme court. i m don lemon. tony is off today. those stories and your comments right here, rig
ten convicted russian spies have touched down in vienna, austria. they were on a jet to laguardia after being expelled from the united states. the two superpowers showed how quickly governments can get things done when motivated working with lightning speed to put an embarrassing incident behind them. susan is here. what s the latest? this has been a very complex story. i ll say. it happened so quickly. all of this completed from start to finish from the time they were arrested, less than two weeks. here is the latest. we got word a short time ago, a u.s. chartered flight that left new york last night is now on the ground in vienna. aboard, ten spies. most are returning to their home land. will they sell their spy stories? it s the russians admitting they were spies. reporter: each of the ten pleaded guilty for one count of conspiracy as a for not registering as a foreign agent. if they sell their stories, proceeds must be turned over to the united states. several were
Their water system and make the community safe. it s an understandable concern because there is a lack of awareness about landfills. reporter: he says there won t be any liquid oil coming here, just solid oil waste. before it is dumped it is stored and analyzed. in the last 24 hours, they dropped more than 150 tons of bp waste into this landfill. if the county didn t want it, why is it here? they have appealed to the state about it and others about it, and we understand that and we re going to do our utmost to be sure they are familiar with what s going on here. reporter: holden says there s a liner that runs under the entire site, under my feet where i m walking now, and that s supposed to contain everything that s dumped here in the landfill and protect it from any leaks. he also says the ground water and air is monitored and if