Ringo H.W. Chiu / Press Herald
Saturday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard noticed an oil slick off the coastline of Newport Beach. The oil slick was later discovered to be the result of a leak from an oil pipeline off Huntington Beach. So far, an estimated 126,000 gallons, or 3,000 barrels, had spread into an oil slick covering about 13 square miles of the Pacific Ocean since it was first reported on Saturday morning. As the oil spreads, beaches are being closed down, including those in Laguna Beach.