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Oil slick 'moving towards shore'

The Gulf Coast towns are bracing for the impact of that giant oil spill and President Obama visits the region today. Incident operations coordinator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Doug Helton, discusses how the size of the disaster is yet to be determined, as his team do the modelling and the prediction of what is going to happen.


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