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"It potentially is catastrophic," Salazar said. "I think we have to prepare for the worst."
Salazar also said that "it is indeed a massive oil spill."
However, CNN reported Sunday citing the Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, as saying that the exact size of the leak still remains unknown.
"This spill, at this point in my view, is indeterminate," Allen said on CNN"s "State of the Union." "That makes it asymmetrical, anomalous and one of the most complex things we"ve ever dealt with."
LA News Monitor said on Sunday the U.S. President Barack Obama was expected to visit the U.S. Gulf Coast to see with his own eyes a response to the enormous oil spill that is still growing and moving towards American shores.
The New York Times said on Friday, U.S. Coast Guard officials began investigating reports that oil hit the coastline in the early hours of Friday, posing a threat to nature on islands along the Gulf Coast.