Photos: "Obama Send Help" (The Obama Presidency, Day 468)

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Photos: "Obama Send Help" (The Obama Presidency, Day 468)

Edited on Sun May-02-10 09:02 PM by Clio the Leo

Actor Zach Galifianakis visits the South Lawn during a tour of the White House to watch U.S. President Barack Obama depart in the Marine One helicopter for a trip to Louisiana to witness the response to oil spill damage along the Gulf Coast, from Washington, May 2, 2010.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/02/a-massive-and-potentially-unprecedented-environmental-disaster">"A Massive and Potentially Unprecedented Environmental Disaster"
President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. ,

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left, walks with President Barack Obama on the tarmac at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. , on Sunday, May 2, 2010.

"So, you mean to tell me, that thing that blew up in Iceland ... THAT was a VOLCANO? Wow!"

President Barack Obama is briefed by National Incident Commander U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen in Venice, La. , as he visits the Gulf Coast region

Andrew Nyman, Associate Professor Wetland Wildlife Management & Ecology of LSU AgCenter, walks next to twisted oil booms at the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana, where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, May 1, 2010. A huge wind-driven oil slick bore down on the U.S. Gulf coast on Sunday, threatening an environmental catastrophe, and the Obama administration heaped pressure on BP Plc to halt the uncontrolled spill from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well. Since the explosion and sinking last week of the Deepwater Horizon rig, a disaster scenario has emerged with hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spewing unchecked into the Gulf and moving inexorably northward to the coast.

Andrew Nyman, Associate Professor Wetland Wildlife Management & Ecology of LSU AgCenter, collects samples of beach sand beside oil booms at the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana

Randy Lanctot, Director of Louisiana Wildlife Federation, walks past oil booms at the coast of South Pass,

U.S. President Barack Obama visits local fishermen after touring the Coast Guard Venice Center in the Gulf of Mexico region

US President Barack Obama greets members of the US Coast Guard

U.S. President Barack Obama talks after touring the Coast Guard Venice Center in the Gulf of Mexico region to view environmental damage caused by the sinking of BP's oil and gas Deepwater Horizontal drilling rig while in Venice, Louisiana, May 2, 2010. The spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to be an unprecedented environmental disaster, Obama said on Sunday.

Jessica Thorton, Tammy Moreau, Brittany Ortis, Sandra Moreau and Barbara Pokorney position a sign for the Presidential motorcade to see as it passes by en route to the Coast Guard Station May 2, 2010 in Venice, Louisiana.