California oil pipeline leak contained before reaching beach

A spill of 700 barrels of crude oil spilled from a pipeline near California's coast on Thursday but was quickly contained in a dry creek bed and did not reach the Pacific Ocean in Ventura County, officials said. The line was shut shortly after the discovery of the spill, which was a tiny fraction of an infamous offshore blowout in 1969 that spewed up to 100,000 barrels into the ocean. Thursday's leak occurred near Ventura, California a beachside community less than 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Los Angeles.