. >> gretchen: i guess we'll go to craig bosswell and get back to john elton in a moment. we're on day 100 of the oil spill. word now there is another oil leak, craig, fill us in on that. >> good morning to you, gretchen. apparently a tug boat or barge ran over our bumped into an abandoned oil well that was capped. the oil company out of business. but it ignited a geyser, about 100 feet into the air of a mixture of live crude and natural gas. more natural gas. but it created a mile long slick. the coast guard is working to contain that. a smaller spill, nothing compared to the bp oil spill, but it's something that on day 100, people don't want to have to deal with, another oil spill. they're having to work to contain that. now, at the bp oil spill, crews are preparing to begin a two step process of permanently capping the well. that can begin on monday. best case they might have it permanently capped by mid august, people wishing them well, any suggestion that this environmental disaster or this economic disaster is anywhere near over enrages local officials. here is placq

now we continue our team coverage with craig bosswell down in p pensacola. how are things down there today? >> reporter: good morning to you. yeah, check this out. let's show you a little bit of pensacola beach. the sun has been up for an hour. people are trickling out onto the beach. but normally this time of year, this beach would be packed. they had tar balls that did wash up ashore here last week. most of those have been cleaned up. they've had volunteers come along, bp and the coast guard hired roughly 6,000 people just along probably about 150-mile stretch of beach here. so they have gotten a lot of this cleaned off right off of this particular area. however, about 25 to 30 miles west of where we are right now, large clumps of crude are washing up ashore. certainly in orange beach, alabama, where president obama will be visiting later today. he'll be in alabama and get an eye full and certainly a nose full 'cause you can certainly smell the crude oil as some of that is mixed with the dispersant. to the east of here over in panama city beach, we had tha

craig bosswell, fox news. >> those pictures still amazing to see the destruction from the tornadoes. >> you said it right. picking up their splintered lives. >>> around here just a little bit of rain. >> shower activity breaking out. we are getting light showers here. i just stepped out. not pouring rain all day but kind of bloomy out there, cloudy and cool with on again, off again showers. and satellite radar will show you what i'm talking about. showers moving in all morning long here from the north and west. you can see the scattered showers breaking out across central sections of maryland and portions of eastern virginia and just moving in now into the lower southern maryland as well. so expect showers. out to west, the darker yell is the leading edge of cooler air moving in and some drier air that will get in during the day tomorrow and we could see a shower turn into a thunderstorm during the mid to late afternoon. there you go. all of this pushing off to the north and east and behind it high pressure building in and gives us a nice one tomorrow. 68 at reagan national. 70 in an

craig bosswell, fox news. >>> the head of the environmental group is heart broken after looking at the damage from the oil spill. michael broon, executive director of the sierra club joins us with ideas on how to recover from the disaster. thank you for joining us today. >> hi, allison. thank you for having me on. >> you recently returned from a trip down there and i read your blog. tell me what you saw and tell me what people down there -- what the cry for help is right now. >> well the cry for help is quite strong and you hear it from all quarters and the reason is that when you get out on the water and you actually see the brown pelicans being smothered in oil or see dolphins coming up through an oily sheen and you can smell the oil in the sea, it's devastating and it's heart- wrenching. then when you talk to people who work in the commercial fishing industry or in the coastal tourism industry and you hear how they have nowhere to go. not only do they not have jobs, they don't know if they'll get their jobs back, much less when, we realize this is a call to action and we have to do

craig bosswell has more details on the healthcare battle. >> reporter: union leaders came to the white house on monday hoping to eastern out differences in healthcare reform legislation. >> the senate bill is inadequate. >> reporter: labor officials propose a 40% tax on cadillac health plans included in the senate bill. the afl/cio president said those with good benefits in exchange for less pay will be hurt. >> this is a policy designed to benefit elites. >> reporter: unions prefer the healthcare bill and the surtax on individuals making more than $500,000 households making more than a million. >> no one is trying to walk into it with positions that are joust designed to blow the whole process up. nonetheless, the senate position is problematic. >> reporter: the white house said the president backs the, too high-end plans and wants protect working men and union. unions can't have it both ways and could hurt democrats in the november elects. >> i don't think we would have the discussion if we were not interested in their viewpoint. >> reporter: other major sticking points include the s

craig bosswell joins us live from venice, louisiana where the full impact of the spill will be coming ashore pretty soon. right? >> gregg: that's right. good morning to you. the thickest part of that oil spill, some three to six, possibly 9 miles offshore. let me point out encouraging news. there has been so little of that. winds died down here in venice, louisiana. that's key because those winds have been from the south and they've been pushing that oil towards the shore. they've also been whipping up waves which is taking that oil right over the top of those protective booms we've been showing you so much video of. these winds are also shifting. they're beginning to come from the north, which should help keep, or at least slow the spill down from getting closer to the shore. when these fishermen come to their boats and know they're not going out fishing, the government shut down more than 6,000 areas of fishing from here at the mouth of the us us to the florida panhandle. reality sinks in more when they find there is five possible solutions for bp to shut off this well. one is to di