At the direction of President
Obama, Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and NOAA Administrator Jane
Lubchenco visited the Gulf Coast to meet with
federal, state and local officials, and local business leaders as part of their
continued oversight of BP’s efforts to plug the leak and contain the spill, and
their ongoing emphasis on interagency coordination in response to the event.
All three officials traveled to Biloxi, Miss. Locke and Napolitano continued on to Pensacola, Fla.,
in the afternoon. (NOAA-Deepwater)
(Current trajectory
map—PDF) (Incident News)
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