barbara rob reynolds of the latest there from huntington beach in california. rock thank parts of a crater on the wrapping company of yay, hovel. k. now on the spanish island of lapel mash have collapsed the sending more lava surging into the sea. the bouquet now has been spewing lava for more than 2 weeks now, with its interruptions getting ever more violent and other to earthquakes were recorded on monday and earlier, authorities briefly opened parts of the exclusion cell and to allow some residents to go home and collect possessions jonah, how went with them? well, this is the closest we've been able to get so far. to this volcano we're on a sort of media tour that brought us to the exclusion zone. the danger zone, the authorities here describe it as and everywhere. a blackened blanket of very heavy volcanic ash the roadways absolutely covered in the stuff the pavements. the houses here look at it piled up high on the roof. i was having to wear protective gear across against the south with air and look at this really quite heavy pieces of back volcanic air. raining down on our heads all

rob reynolds joins us live now from huntington beach in california. i mean, it sounds horrific. how damaging could this be a for the coastline? well, a lot of damage has already been done. barbara, you can see behind me, this is a coastal wet land, a small remnant of what used to be here naturally. and there are yellow booms in the water trying to prevent the oil from ah, be fowling this sensitive habitat. the beaches in many places are covered with thick clots of tar, like crude oil. the actual breaking rupture in the pipeline. ah, the cause of that is not yet known. the pipeline has been shut off. so, but half a 1000000 a leaders of crude oil is, is definitely something that has a created a truly an environmental catastrophe. and i'd like to introduce now, ah, damon tagami. damon, do you just come right over here? damon is an official with the natural resources defense council. i could this have been prevented. absolutely could have been prevented. this is a catastrophe. think everyone should be outraged. we certainly are. this is something that we never like to see and absolutely it could have been prevented. now now, damon, i understand that the, you all the infrastructure,