US Oil Spill 2
AP-APTN-0930: US Oil Spill 2
Sunday, 6 June 2010
STORY:US Oil Spill 2- REPLAY Operation underway to rescue pelicans, spill cam and local reax
LENGTH: 03:20
FIRST RUN: 0130
RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access NAmerica/Internet
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/BP HANDOUT/ABC
STORY NUMBER: 801882
DATELINE: Various - 4/5 June 2010
LENGTH: 03:20
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SHOTLIST:
(FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 5 JUNE 2010)
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Barataria Bay, Louisiana
1. Pan from marsh to pelican carcass
2. Pelican stuck in oil
3. Plaquemines Parish coastal zone manager PJ Hahn taking pelican out of oil
4. Hahn and another man place oil-covered pelican into bag
(FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 5 JUNE 2010)
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Grand Isle, Louisiana
5. Wide of crews rescuing bird
6. Mid of rescue boat
7. Close-up of oil in water
8. Wide of pelicans and other birds
9. Wide of rescue team running after bird that can no longer fly
10. Various of rescue team with birds in hands
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Marye Lewis,International Bird Rescue:
"It's very sad to see the mothers and the rookery and the very oiled mothers sitting on the eggs; that's just very sad, I believe, for all of us."
12. Mid of workers with bird
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kayla Dibenedetto, US Fish and Wildlife:
"It's an adrenaline rush but we know we're doing our job and that's what we're here to do and it feels great to be able to get one at a time."
14. Wide of workers chasing bird
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 6 JUNE 2010)
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Gulf of Mexico - 5 June 2010
15. Various underwater video from oil spill site
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Theodore, Alabama - 5 June 2010
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, Incident Commander for oil spill:
"Well the worst case I can see is that the discharge related to what we can't contain goes forward until we have the relief wells drilled, which will be some time in early August."
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 6 JUNE 2010)
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Barataria Bay, Louisiana - 4 June 2010
17. Various of workers cleaning oil
18. Wide of dead fish
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Orange Beach, Alabama - 5 June 2010
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Fryar, Senior Vice-President for BP:
"The cap that we put on to the LMRP (Lower Marine Riser Package), that operation has gone extremely well. Over the last 24 hours we've been able to collect over 6,000 barrels of oil, so we're very pleased with that operation."
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 6 JUNE 2010)
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Barataria Bay, Louisiana - 5 June 2010
20. Wide of foot steps in oil covered water
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Orange Beach, Alabama - 5 June 2010
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Kennon, Mayor of Orange Beach:
"But it's really aggravating for someone to walk in here whose never been to our town to put on a pretty, rosy picture when it's just not the case."
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 6 JUNE 2010)
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Barataria Bay, Louisiana - 5 June 2010
22. Wide of fishing trawler pulling oil covered boom through water
STORYLINE
The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that many have feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.
Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude.
Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge.
Seashells that once glinted pearly white under the hot June sun are stained crimson.
Scenes like this played out along miles of shoreline on Saturday, nearly seven weeks after a BP rig exploded and the wellhead a mile below the surface began belching millions (m) of gallon of oil.
The oil has steadily spread east, washing up in greater quantities in recent days, even as a cap placed by BP over the blown out well began to collect some of the escaping crude.
The cap, resembling an upside-down funnel, has captured about 252,000 gallons of oil, according to Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government's point man for the crisis.
If earlier estimates are correct, that means the cap is capturing from a quarter to as much as half the oil spewing from the blowout each day.
But that is a small fraction of the 23 million (m) to 47 million (m) gallons government officials estimate have leaked into the Gulf since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, making it the nation's largest oil spill ever.
BP officials are trying to capture as much oil as possible without creating too much pressure or allowing the build-up of ice-like hydrates, which form when water and natural gas combine under high pressures and low temperatures.
In Louisiana, along the beach at Queen Bess Island, oil pooled several feet deep, trapping birds against unused containment boom.
With no oil response workers on Queen Bess, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director PJ Hahn decided he could wait no longer, pulling an exhausted brown pelican from the oil, the slime dripping from its wings.
Meanwhile, off Grand Isle, Louisiana a large group of biologists and fish and wildlife agents were out on the water looking for oil-covered birds.
The officials rescued the birds that could no longer fly.
Speaking about the rescue efforts, Kayla Dibenedetto from the US Fish and Wildlife agency said "it's an adrenaline rush but we know we're doing our job and that's what we're here to do and it feels great to get one at a time."
After six weeks with one to four birds a day coming into Louisiana's rescue centre for oiled birds at Fort Jackson, 53 arrived on Thursday and another 13 Friday morning, with more on the way.
Federal authorities say 792 dead birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other wildlife have been collected from the Gulf of Mexico and its coastline.
Yet scientists say the wildlife death toll remains relatively modest, well below the tens of thousand of birds, otters and other creatures killed after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
The numbers have stayed comparatively low because the Deepwater Horizon rig was 50 miles off the coast and most of the oil has stayed in the open sea. The Valdez ran aground on a reef close to land, in a more enclosed setting.
Experts say the Gulf's marshes, beaches and coastal waters, which nurture a dazzling array of life, could be transformed into killing fields, though the die-off could take months or years and unfold largely out of sight.
The damage could be even greater beneath the water's surface, where oil and dispersants could devastate zooplankton and tiny invertebrate communities at the base of the aquatic food chain.
President Barack Obama pledged on Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address to fight the spill with the people of the Gulf Coast. His words for oil giant BP PLC were stern: "We will make sure they pay every single dime owed to the people along the Gulf coast."
But his reassurances offer limited consolation to the people who live and work along the coasts of four states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, now confronting the oil spill first-hand.
In Orange Beach, Alabama, Bob Fryar, a senior vice president for BP, said the company was pleased with the results from the cap.
Still residents and officials alike were expressing frustration over BP's handling of the crisis.
"It's really aggravating for someone to walk in here whose never been to our town to put on a pretty, rosy picture when it's just not the case," Tony Kennon, mayor of Orange Beach, Alabama, said.
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