hit in the question you asked me, no it is not definite, however it is very likely. >> larry: gary tuchmann national correspondent, one of the best in the business. thanks, gary. robert kennedy jr. is president of water keep alliance, environmental attorney involved in two class action suits, find behalf of commercial fishermen in florida and will a will in connection with the oil spill. he is the son, of course, of the late robert f kennedy, nephew of the late senator ed kennedy and james carville, senior political contributor and democratic strategist. james is with us from new orleans, robert from vancouver. bp, the oil company, says that while bp is responsible for dealing with the oil gush nothing the gulf and for cleaning it up it is not responsible for the accident. they note the rig which explode and sank was run by transoaks and it was their people and their processes. do you agree, robert? bobby, you agree? >> it is unclear now who's responsible for the spill. there are actually liability issues that are involved that are -- that are really critical, i think, ultimately to bp's c

our gary tuchman took a boat out to the chandelier islands. area thriving in marine life. louisiana. >> we're 35 miles south of gulf port, mississippi. these are the chandeleui rylands. you're looking at the oil. the yellow thing is the boom. it looks like foam but this is the oil from the massive oil slick. people on the coastline obviously in louisiana, mississippi, alabama and florida are very concerned. we can tell you because we took a 3 1/2 hour boat ride to get out here, that the oil is still at least 35 or 40 miles away. i mean, you can see right now if it wasn't for this protective boom it would be on he's islands. these islands are major wildlife refuge. the birds come between north, central and south america. you can see the birds on these islands. these islands used to be about 20 miles long north of south. because of hurricanes over the years, katrina, george, it's now about 16 miles. ultimately the fear is that in years to come when there's more damage here the islands will be gone. they're uninhabited. no one lives here. a couple hundred years ago, there wer

we go to gary tuchman live. what do you see?porter: when it comes to live reports, this is the most remote live report i have ever done, we're four hours away from the united states. this is chandeleur island, louisiana, because this is where it's expected to get the oil first. this is one of the orange booms here because the storm put it on the land. it's no good anymore. the island is not overrun yet but the bad news, the oil is literally 100 yards away. we're 35 miles south of the gulfport of mississippi. these are the chandelier islands. and you're looking at the boom, it looks like foam, but this is the oil from the massive oil slick. people on the coastline obviously in louisiana, mississippi, alabama and florida are very concerned, but we can tell you because we took a 3 1/2-hour boat ride to get out here, the oil is still at least 35, 40 miles away. you can see right now, if it wasn't for this protective boom, it would be on these islands. these islands are amazing wildlife refuges. migratory birds come on their way to n