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Various of tide washing up thick oil2. Close of thick oil on beach 3. Various of a dead pelican lying on beach covered in oil4. Various of baby pelicans huddled together, covered in oil5. Various of crab...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBarataria Bay, Louisiana\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of tide washing up thick oil\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of thick oil on beach \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of a dead pelican lying on beach covered in oil\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of baby pelicans huddled together, covered in oil\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of crab crawling along oil covered beach\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director, P.J. Hahn, reaching into water and pulling out hands covered in thick oil\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) P.J. Hahn, Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, it's critical right now to get these passes cut off, to keep this heavy oil from coming through. The dilemma that we have and that we saw today, on today's trip, is that the oil is actually heavy oil travelling below the surface. So, one of the things we want to do is be able to build these barrier islands and that's going to be critical in trying to keep this oil out. Unfortunately, we started that procedure four weeks ago, and had we been able to start the procedure four weeks ago we would have probably been able to stop that oil that's now coming in to the Barataria area.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of Hahn holding dead fish, covered in oil\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Marino, boat captain from Myrtle Grove, Louisiana:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The area we're in right now, this is some of the best fishing in the whole region, and the oil's coming in - just wave after wave. It's hard to stomach, it really is.\"\u003cbr/\u003eVenice, Louisiana\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of coast guards on boat filling up tank with fuel\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of \"US Coast Guard\" written on side of vessel\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of coast guard command post\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of \"US Coast Guard, Mobile Incident Command Post\" written on side of container\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of trucks\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide exterior of hotel\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of \"No Vacancy\" board on hotel sign\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Annette Sylve, The Lighthouse Lodge and Villas:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We've been booked from day one. Okay, I mean we are booked for a year or until this is over with, okay. It's hard but I'm trusting God to help these people resolve this big old problem.\"     \u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of man by food store  \u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of US flag with the words (English): \"Thanks BP for nothing, Obama stand up for us\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of people sitting on bench outside food store\u003cbr/\u003eA special cap was capturing more and more of the crude pouring from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, but that glimmer of hope was tempered on Sunday as the official overseeing the US government's response said the battle to contain the leak was likely to stretch into the autumn. \u003cbr/\u003eCoast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, closely monitoring the inverted funnel-like cap to see if it can make a serious dent in the flow of new oil, said he didn't want to risk offering false encouragement.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking on CBS' \"Face the Nation\" Allen said the cap would trap only so much of the oil, and relief wells being drilled would not be completed until August, with oil continuing to spew out.\u003cbr/\u003eThe prospect that the crisis could stretch beyond the summer was devastating to residents along the Gulf, who are seeing thicker globs of oil show up in increasing volume all along the coastline.\u003cbr/\u003ePlaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn said the thick oil was causing devastation to local wildlife. \u003cbr/\u003eHahn said a new plan to increase protection on the coast, including beachfront barriers, was \"critical\" to keep the heavy oil out.\u003cbr/\u003eSince it was placed over the busted well on Thursday, the cap has been siphoning an increasing amount of oil. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Saturday, it funnelled about 441,000 gallons (1.7 million litres) to a tanker on the surface, up from about 250,000 gallons (946,325 litres) it captured on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it's not clear how much is still escaping from the well that federal authorities at one point estimated was leaking between 500,000 gallons (1.9 million litres) and 1 million gallons (3.8 million litres) a day. \u003cbr/\u003eSince the spill began nearly seven weeks ago, roughly 23 million gallons (87 million litres) to 49 million gallons (185 million litres) of oil have leaked into the Gulf.\u003cbr/\u003eAs BP continues their efforts to contain the leak, increasing quantities of thick oily sludge have been making its way farther east, washing up on some of the region's hallmark white-sand beaches and coating marshes in black ooze.\u003cbr/\u003eAn observation flight spotted a sheen of oil 150 miles (240 kilometres) west of Tampa.\u003cbr/\u003eCleanup crews have been struggling to keep pace and many Gulf residents have become increasingly frustrated.\u003cbr/\u003eAs the oil comes ashore from Louisiana to Florida, pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil that gathers in hip-deep pools, while dead birds and dolphins wash up along the shore. \u003cbr/\u003eBoat captain Dave Marino, from Myrtle Grove in Louisiana, said oil was seeping in to some of the best fishing spots.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's hard to stomach, it really is,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Venice, Louisiana, one hotelier said she was booked up, but not by tourists and fisherman, but with response workers.\u003cbr/\u003eNearby, local stores, usually packed with fisherman, are half empty.  \u003cbr/\u003eBP chief executive Tony Hayward told the BBC on Sunday that he believed the cap was likely to capture \"the majority, probably the vast majority\" of the oil gushing from the well. \u003cbr/\u003eThe gradual increase in the amount being captured is deliberate, in an effort to prevent water from getting inside and forming a frozen slush that foiled a previous containment attempt.\u003cbr/\u003eBP engineers must next try to close vents on the containment cap that are allowing oil to escape and preventing that water intake. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Sunday, BP said it had closed one of four vents that are allowing oil to escape and preventing that water intake. \u003cbr/\u003eThe company said some of the remaining vents may remain open to keep the cap system stable.\u003cbr/\u003eHayward told the BBC that the company hopes a second containment system would be in place by next weekend. \u003cbr/\u003eAllen told CBS that the oil would stop flowing only when the 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