Back in the United States, hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Mississippi River near New Orleans Wednesday after a tugboat collided with an oil tanker. The spill has stretches more than eighty miles and is threatening the fragile delta ecosystem. The tanker was carrying more than 419,000 gallons of thick industrial fuel oil. The accident came on the same day Senator McCain was scheduled to visit New Orleans to promote offshore oil drilling. McCain was planning to fly aboard a helicopter and land on an oil rig in the Gulf Of Mexico. McCain ended up canceling the trip.