for more on this spill, let's go to curt hawkins, an nbc news channel reporter. good to have you with us tonight. what are the cleanup efforts looking like at this hour? all hands on deck? what's it look like? >> well ed it really is all hands on deck. authorities here expect that this cleanup is expected to last at least three more days. they're saying they haven't been able to verify the threat just yet. this is a very sensitive area for wildlife. this is where whales make their way to alaska. this is where there are rare sea birds and other endangered species. this is something they're following very closely. and they haven't been able to identify the exact impact that that will have. they're going to investigate the possibility of both criminal and civil charges and local county supervisors are saying this is a disaster and even a nightmare scenario. >> nightmare scenario possibly playing out. environmentalists who were on the scene, how do they describe it? >> a lot of them are concerned about the use of disbursants. at this point, state officials say those

curt hawkins, thank you.e and they want a $15 an hour wage. and they want the right to unionize. today's protest comes a day after the l.a. city council gave initial approval to a $15 an hour raise for its employees living in l.a. msnbc's zach roth is live in illinois the site of the protests. set the scene and how things have been going so far. in a matter of an hour the gathering has gotten much larger. >> reporter: yeah, hi thomas there is by now a crowd i would estimate over 1,000 people. heavily young and minority in keeping with the profile of this movement and the mood is upbeat and optimistic. coming off of a big victory in l.a. having said that they are very focused still on that goal of $15 an hour and union. i spekoke to a worker from kansas city who works at both mcdonald's and burger king. has to work two jobs makes $8 an hour at each. trying to support a family with three daughters. they won't back down from their demand for $15 an hour an union. >> zach roth reporting for us there outside of th