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Get in the military. >> it is a great weekend. we remember the men and women we deployed this weekend. and for me to be a small part in our nations history was probably my greatest a chiefment. >> why are people so fascinated withary shoes in general? >> there is a connection. andy used to go to air shoes and i looked up and i connected with one pilot at an air show and said i want to be a pilot. >> it is magical what can happen. >> god bless america. >> so much fun. john said it takes a year to...

Get in the military. >> it is a great weekend. we remember the men and women we deployed this weekend. and for me to be a small part in our nations history was probably my greatest a chiefment. >> why are people so fascinated withary shoes in general? >> there is a connection. andy used to go to air shoes and i looked up and i connected with one pilot at an air show and said i want to be a pilot. >> it is magical what can happen. >> god bless america. >> so much fun. john said it takes a year to...

With an additional $5 billion in punitive damages. exxon appealed, all the way to the supreme court, which cut that $5 billion to about $500 million. >> as far as the punitive damages, it wasnt a slap on the wrist. it was an insult. it was an insult to us. it was an insult to the fishermen. >> the herring have still not returned. but over the years, salmon runs grew larger. and cordova slowly turned a corner. >> to be a fishermen, you have to be optimistic. >> last year, robert beadle bought a n...

Still be found on the shore. as a matter of fact, the local science center keeps bottles of it on hand. >> so you can take a look at it and it is still heavy oil and if you smell it, highly aromatic and hydrocarbons still coming out of that yuck. >> definitely smells like oil. >> it does. >> expect the worst and hope for the best. >> reporter: money has not made the problems go away. john plat got his final payment from exxon last year, nearly a half million dollars, but fishing is not what it w...

Down on the issue of the damages that are going to be paid especially by bp. as you can see, was there clarity that we got yesterday and theres still a whole lot of murkiness when it comes to how long will bp pay and how much will they pay? will they go to $10 billion? they were asked that yesterday and they wouldnt commit to that and said they couldnt comment on it and were expecting more questions on that. >> well watch it with you, brian a thanks. one thing bp can bring to the table, news tha...

Hitting the super sensitive marsh lands. when you have all this plus the wild cards plus the possibility of something completely unexpected happening, just bad luck or good luck, we find ourselves saying, we really dont know what its going to add up to at this point, but it could be much worse than valdez, or it could be much better. anderson? >> at least its interesting to see the differences. tom, appreciate that. lets dig deeper now. we want to take you to the town that felt the brunt of the ...

Anderson? >> at least its interesting to see the differences. tom, appreciate that. lets dig deeper now. we want to take you to the town that felt the brunt of the "exxon valdez" oil spill. two decades have passed, but the financial and emotional scars run deep. we asked dan simon to travel up to alaska and heres what he found. >> reporter: john plat is a commercial fisherman here in kor doe bah, alaska, ground zero for the "exxon valdez" catastrophe two decades ago. its been hard times ever sin...

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