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Drilling platform each day. anne thompson is in new orleans monitoring this for us this morning. i heard you talking on the "today" show about how this could affect shrimping and some industry down there. how bad is this spill? >> well, the spill is bad. chuck, its 600 square miles right now. the oil slick. most of it is a very thin sheen on the water. that is good news. it is not a continuous oil slick. its broken up. the problem is that well head is still leaking and today, the next 12 hours a...

Supposed to benefit students. sallie mae says its forcing the company to restructure under those new rules. eight minutes past now. martha: a crisis in the gulf of mexico this morning, new fears of a possible oil spill from that sunken drilling platform off the coast of louisiana. now, an environmental group is saying today it could have a huge impact. marine life and vegetation, all along the cufl coast, is in danger if the oil from that rig reaches the shore, crews say up to 336,000 gallons of...

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Immense flooding. and we want to emphasize because this is erupting does not mean that katla will erupt, but historically they have erupted at the same time. so, there are a lot of tourism officials in iceland that are angry about what the president said, but the president said, hey, its important to be honest about history. and another major story developing in the gulf of mexico. 11 people are missing after an explosion and fire on an offshore oil rig. there are also a number of injuries in ...

The search for 12 missing oil rig workers off the coast of louisiana. look at these brand new photos, just in from this horizon rig, where an overnight explosion sent seven people to the hospital oh my goodness, would you look at that! helicopters and airplanes, and a boat, are now scouring the waters of the gulf coast for the dozens of workers -- the dozen workers i should say, not seen since this blast. the coast guard is now drilling -- the drilling platform is tilting badly, they say it may ...

>> how about the new increased mileage standards that the administration claimed today is going to sieve a bill eigion ei about nine days of consumption. does that mitigate against what you see as a bad day? >> thats a really good proposal he made and were highly supportive of it. why do we have to have these two linked? this is a proposal to make cars more efficient and cleaner, and something that we should be doing regardless of oil and gas drilling or nuclear power. and so we support it. kind...

Enormous oil reserves here and has penetrated further north than anyone else so far . to manage is on his way to the heart of the rig the drilling platform. all of them is appears that this is just a small use of the light thats what does the whole job and its all its all going to say the end of the plot all the engineering is all around this more thing sticking out and doing a lot of. no other all over again the well this is well protected against the cold it can operate at temperatures as low ...

Climb up to 110 degrees, maybe even hotter than that. well be watching for that as well. looking at gulf coast, i wanted to mention the latest upindict bonnie, the storm. its now remnant area of low pressure. meaning that its no longer a depression. its just a little bit of thunderstorm activity kind of rolling through the gulf right now. >> bon year, thank you very much. im glad that you mentioned the gulf of mexico, because down in the gulf of mexico, about a dozen chips are working on the bp ...

Got hit with more than seven inches of rain, flooding streets and interstates, knocking out power to thousands and cab selling airline flights. rescue teams in several suburban towns used boats and even helicopters to search for people stranded by the rising water. in the gulf of mexico the storm danger has passed and ships are now back at the site of the bp oil well. cnns david mattingly has the latest. david, good evening to you. when will all the boats be back on site, back to work? >> report...