here now is stephanie elam. >> reporter: the beaches should be packed here in santa barbara county for memorial day weekend, but instead on this strip of beach shall it's all closed off and that's because of this oil spill. they are still working to clean it up. if you look behind me you can see there are workers who have been out here since the break of dawn digging on the sand, pulling out little bits of oil, collecting it, putting it in bags and removing it from the beach. they have been trying to do as much as they can while the tide is out and also in the distance you can see that bright pinkish mass back there. that's actually a boom. they're going to pull that out into the ocean and try to contain any more of the oil that can be seen out of there. and yesterday we got some really interesting footage of a flyover. if you take a look at what this little bit of beach looks like, you can still see that there is still oil in that water, and that's what they're looking to contain. they have got boats out here that are dragging basically big pieces of cloth behind them trying to contro

stephanie elam, cnn. >> stephanie, thank you so much.hour, i'll talk to marcy johnson, baltimore public defender, about the conditions in which those who were arrested were locked up. here is what she says in her facebook post just to look ahead. the holding cells are 10x10 with one open sink and toilet. there are no beds, no blankets, no pillows. the cells were designed to hold people a few hours, not a few days. so we will talk more about that and we will hear what she is doing to help. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic, why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? with cialis for daily use, you don't have to plan around either. it'

stephanie elam cnn. >> stephanie, thank you very much.he states attorneys say now she has delivered the justice. she is hoping protesters will deliver the peace but the real question is now how hard will it be to keep the city calm as we approach that 10:00 p.m. curfew it happens in just two hours, and a couple of minutes here someone who knows about that joins me now, majority leader of the maryland state senator, katherine pouh action president of the national black caucus of state legislators. senator thank you very much. before i get that you're a powerful black woman in the city of maryland. >> thank you. >> reporter: i want to get your reaction to the curfew. >> it was supposed to remain in place until tuesday. i think there were many in the community who wanted to see the curfew lifted but i believe there's probably intelligence out there we don't know about. i have faith in the baltimore community. people are prepared to go home at 10:00. there will be folks who will travel. the only concern we should have is there are some out of

cnn's stephanie elam is live with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.e it's shining just on cue for you right now. you can see where there are still spots along the beach of the oil that's on some of the rocks here on this beach and now that the sun is out, there's crews way down the beach still working to clean up as much as they can. the issue here is that a lot of what spilled into the ocean, you're talking about more than 100,000 gallons of oil is now going out westerly into this water which makes it harder to pull up and also could be more damaging for more of the marine life that's out there, carol. >> so they don't know why this pipeline ruptured? that's weird that it was running below capacity. why would it rupture? >> reporter: that's still part of the investigation as to what went on here. this is a case of where you have a company that has had violations according to the epa before when they paid fines to make their pipes stronger and reinforcing them. it's still something they want to find out. a lot of people don't want this to happen here

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stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. >> it's a very big loss in the world of extreme sports. of the best known adventure rock climbers in the world. watching him in action is not for anyone with a fear of heights. he climbs tall cliffs without a rope to protect him if he falls. alex joins me tonight. i know you were friends with dean. can you start by talking about what dean was like? what drew him to these sports? >> you start with the hard questions. i don't know. dean was super passionate about what he called his arts, you know. being outside and climbing and slack lining base jumping. he loved the magical places he got to go climbing in. i don't know exactly what motivated him. >> he viewed it as an art? >> yeah, he always did. it was like a spiritual practice for him to be in these beautiful places, and be pushing himself that way. >> i understand you said he shaped the direction of climbing for this generation, how so? >> well, he certainly shaped the cutting edge, you know, he pushed the directions of the -- that the sport was going in. he was very much responsible for

stephanie elam doing the job live. not a fun job because it stinks when you are covering an oil spill in many senses of that expression. >>> coming up next, not wasting time in baltimore. less than five weeks after freddie gray died all six police officers have now been officially indicted by a grand jury but there are some discrepancies between what they were charged with and what they were indicted for. does that speak to anything of significance and where this case is going. we'll talk about that next. put your hand over your heart. is it beating? good! then my nutrition heart health mix is for you. it's a wholesome blend of peanuts, pecans and other delicious nuts specially mixed for people with hearts. i said people with hearts. because hearts health is important. that's why i've researched, optimized and packaged this mix just for you. not you. so if you have a heart, start optimizing your nutrition with my nutrition. planters. nutrition starts with nut. >>> breaking news this just in to cnn we have heard from th

let's bring in stephanie elam joining us live from santa barbara county. hearing about the corrective measures being issued by the company right now? >> right. this is actually coming from the department of transportation dana and what they have said is that the company that owns this pipeline plains pipeline has to take a look at a few things. first their emergency procedures evaluate them see what they have learned from that. they cannot use this pipeline which you would expect until they figure out what went wrong. that means taking out the part of the pipe that ruptured doing a met learningcle examination to figure out what went wrong and this doesn't happen again. they have to remove the crude oil in this pipeline as well. you're talking about a pipeline about ten miles long. they have to go through removal and submit a plan for approval on how they plan to make it safer when the pipeline does get up and running again. they have to go back to the department of transportation to get approval before they can use this pipe after all that's happened. they

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having this happen at a time where we're expecting good revenues is tough. >> stephanie elam is joiningalking about the economic impact for the businesses but i want to talk about the impact you're seeing, if you will, on the cleanup work, the efforts underway behind you. you were there last week, you're there, are you seeing progress? what are you seeing there now? >> well, it's exactly it, kate. it's a long, dredge russ process to do this because you have to go through, they're cleaning out bits of the sand to see if there's anything there along this strip of beach here. what is harder to see, that translates on camera, is this strip of rocks that is all covered in tar. little drips of it around it. and it's sort of the dark shaded area here that they're now starting to look at. there are booms that are still out in the water, but overall, kate, from when we were here last week until now, the smell is a lot less pungent. you don't have the nagging head ache from the smell. they've been working on it. based on what we've seen they've been able to clean out the oil. the rest on the wate

cnn's stephanie elam has more on his career. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine the blues without b.b. blues man released over 50 albums with songs as "the thrill is gone" and "let the good times roll." ♪ nothing wrong baby ♪ >> reporter: born riley b. king he began recording in the 1940s. he was known as blues born king and then b.b. then at the height of his popularity he played 342 one-night stands. he continued a rigorous touring schedule into his 80s. >> it feels very very good to go on stage whether you win a grammy or not. >> reporter: throughout the years, king worked with artists like u2 and with eric clapton. >> you get a chance to learn a lot of great things from people that have so much going for them today. >> reporter: in 1987 he was inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame and a spot on the hollywood walk of fame. he was rarely seen without his gibson guitar lucille. the gifted guitarist was the first musician to be honored with the kennedy lifetime achievement award in 1995. president bush awarded him with the medal of freedom. king's health was a concern since he w

let's get right to stephanie elam. what do we know about the incident?pened it was -- there was a citizen call saying there was someone disturbing the peace. two police officers showed up. they saw the man who they believed was the suspect. had a conversation with him. he continued off that direction towards the boardwalk. then soon after, they saw him in some sort of struggle with someone here on the street. that's when they intervened police say, to try to bring man into custody to talk to him. that is when the officer involved shooting happened. the police officers are on desk duty as the investigation continues. there's a lot of outrage on two sides. you have people who are out here protesting angry about what has been going on. you can see there's this chalk writing here. people saying that homeless lives matter black lives matter. we also see that there's a makeshift memorial here for the man that we know at brendan glen. there's also his dog. he was known to have a dog and known to be very peaceful according to people we talked to out here on stre

stephanie elam has a look back at his career. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine the blues without b.bthe thrill is gone" and "let the good times roll." ♪ i do know me wrong ♪ >> reporter: born rileyb. king in mississippi, he worked in the cotton fields before the music career. he started recording in the 1940s and became known as blues boy king. then b.b. king. in 1956 at the height of the popularity he played an astonishing 342 one-night stands stands. he continued a rigorous touring schedule into his 80s. he won 15 grammys. >> it feels very very good to go on stage whether you win a grammy or not. >> reporter: king worked with various artists like u2 on the song "when love comes to town" and with eric clapton on the album riding with the king. >> you get a chance to learn a lot of great things from people that have so much going for them today. >> reporter: in 1987 he was inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame and a spot on the hollywood walk of fame in 1990. he was rarely seen without his faithful gibson guitar lucille. the gifted guitarist became the first blues musician to

stephanie elam, cnn. >>> and from baltimore to chile's volcano, people worried that it would erupt ard time. it did and ash high up into the air. >> 16,000 feet into the air. george has done it again. unfortunately, people who started to trickle back from last week's volcanic erupt there were asked to leave once again because -- >> they knew it was probably going to go again. >> seismologists had warned you of it and sure enough it did. it created these scenes that you can see on your screen shooting that volume containic ash 16,000 feet into the atmosphere, turning the region into almost a gray desert. you can see some of these images just outside the volcano, the third time it erupts in just two weeks. significantly changing the landscape. look at the people just having to deal with this. some stunning images coming out of the region. still no reports of injuries or fatalities from this, but certainly an exclusion and in the evacuation zone still in effect around 20 kilometers around the sir couple friend of the control taken know opinion there are some other concerns going forward

stephanie elam is "outfront" in madison. what are you seeing there? >> right here we did see a protest earlier, erin and this is where tony robinson died in this gray and white building here behind me. this is where everything happened. to better understand how we got here take a look at how march 6th played out. >> i conclude that this tragic and unfortunate death was the result of a lawful use of deadly police force. and that no charges should be brought against officer kenny in the death of tony robinson jr. >> today's decision from the wisconsin district attorney comes two months after the fatal encounter between the officer and tony robinson. the teen's family responded angrily. >> i just want to tell you about my grandson because he's been slandered from the beginning. and he was set up. i wear a sweater because this is the only comfort that i have left. >> friday night, march 6th madison police receive reports of trouble on the street. >> look for a male black, light skin tan jacket and jeans yelling and jumping in front of cars. 19 years of ag

our stephanie elam is following the story live. >> reporter: jake something he feared as a child, thats death, but believe it or not it was that fear that actually drove him to take on the feats that he did. >> three, two, one -- see ya. >> reporter: from jumping off cliffs in wing suits to lielining, dean potter extreme sports legend and pioneer. potter died doing what he was known for. base jumping. leaping from fixed points instead of from an aircraft. baps stands for building antenna span and earth. in yosemite, base jumping is illegal. that doesn't stop people from doing t. because they love it. >> reporter: saturday shortly before sunset potter and 29-year-old graham hunt attempted a base jump from a cliff with about a 3,500 drop to the valley floor. friends reported the two were missing that night. on sunday a helicopter spotted the bodies of the two men. they reportedly jumped together but were found at different locations. neither man had deployed his parachute. photographer sean rieder knew both men and said hunt was like a brother to him. >> graham and dean both were two of

cnn's stephanie elam is joining us from madison right now. the decision, stephanie? >> reporter: well you have definitely seen protests immediately after. i was in the room with the district attorney as he made his announcement what would happen. and it was a very emotional press conference in some ways. he was sweating profusely, and he spoke about the fact that he also comes from -- that he is biracial, that his mother is a black woman from alabama, and that she still worries about his own safety even though he is the first black d.a. in the state of wisconsin. he said that because of that he can relate to the situation, that so many people are angry about, which is right here in this gray and white building behind me where he talked about the fact that people feeling like police do not understand what it's like or the a young black man on the street. that said he did decide that there should be no charges filed. take a listen to exactly how he put it. >> i conclude that this tragic and unfortunate death was the result of a lawful use of de