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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap Oil closes in on Florida, BP saw snags on pipe AFP - Thursday, June 3 Send IM Story Print Oil closes in on Florida, BP saw snags on pipe GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AFP) - – The Gulf of Mexico oil slick closed in Wednesday on the Florida coast, as deep sea robotic submarines sawing through a pipe hit a new snag in BP's latest bid to contain the spill. Florida Governor Charlie Crist warned that forecasters "are projecting weathered oil from the leading edge could impact the Florida Panhandle as early as this week, possible in a day or two." "We are watchful, we are monitoring the situation, and we will do everything to protect our beautiful state," he told a press conference, warning "thousands of tar balls" could be approaching the state. The latest official projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show the slick to be about seven miles (11 kilometers) off the state's shores. Florida would be the fourth state hit by the oil since an April 20 explosion ripped through the Deepwater Horizon rig, 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers. More than 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Louisiana coast has been contaminated, triggering fears for the region's already endangered wildlife. Chronology: BP's failed attempts to plug Gulf of Mexico oil spill "The threat is shifting to Mississippi and Alabama," said Coast Guard official Thad Allen, overseeing the government's response to the crisis. Emulsified oil has been found on Petit Bois Island in Mississippi, while tar balls and sheen were spotted 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Fort Morgan, Alabama. All oyster beds and beaches around Dauphin Island, Alabama, have also been closed as officials battle to deploy more boom to protect the shorelines from the encroaching crude. Related article: Louisiana residents add hurricane fears to oil woes After a string of failed attempts to cap the leak, BP is battling to contain the six-week-old spill, now the worst in US history, with robotic submarines working in cold waters a mile down (1,600 meters) on the sea bed. But they bogged down Wednesday when the saw being used to cut through the fractured riser pipe became stuck, Allen told reporters. "Anybody that's ever used a saw knows every once in a while it will bind up. That's kind of what's happening here," he added. The diamond wire saw was being used to cleanly cut off the ruptured riser pipe at the top of a failed blow-out preventer. A first cut was successfully made overnight, and Allen said he expected the saw would be extracted, or a new one would be sent down to the wrecked wellhead later Wednesday. The next step will be to try to cap the end of the pipeline and then siphon the oil to a containment ship on surface. Related article: BP, in it for the long haul, pitches tents for oil cleanup The massive spill has frayed the nerves of local residents, who wonder if their lives will ever return to normal. "Everybody is so stressed here. We're just sitting here waiting and they're not telling us anything because they don't know. I had four people who came yesterday crying," said restaurant owner Annette Rigaud, who may be forced to close down. BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles acknowledged that until the cap is in place the flow of oil into the Gulf would likely increase by as much as 20 percent. The US government, which has launched a criminal investigation into the disaster, has estimated the flow of oil before the riser was cut away at 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day -- meaning at least 20 million gallons have already poured into the Gulf since April. "I think if this works, we should capture the vast majority of the flow," Suttles said on CNN Tuesday. "We can't say it'll capture all of it, because it's not a tight mechanical seal, but if it functions well it should capture the vast majority of the flow." President Barack Obama meanwhile Wednesday vowed to find the votes to pass a stalled energy bill, saying the oil catastrophe showed the need to "aggressively" seek a clean energy future. "The only way the transition to clean energy will succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed," he said. Under-fire BP chief executive Tony Hayward also apologized for saying in an interview that he would "like my life back." "I made a hurtful and thoughtless comment on Sunday when I said that 'I wanted my life back,'" Hayward said in a post to BP America's Facebook page. "When I read that recently, I was appalled. I apologize, especially to the families of the 11 men who lost their lives in this tragic accident," he said. 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