Marsh Islands News Today

>> reporter: in lands south of new orleans, water is life. >> this is jimmy on the fringe. >> reporter: on the surface, life might seem back to normal. no slick of crude oil, no skimmer boats or emergency crews in the delicate wetlands, the disaster could have happened yesterday. this is one of the sensitive marsh islands in an area known as bay jimmy. you can see there is an inch of oil over here. if you give it a scrape, ten months later its become coming up almost liquid. the oil is killing t...

Fishing but look at this, and you know this place, there is still oil, thick, on the marsh islands, you dig down and it is liquid and it is moving into the marsh islands, killing the grass, the landfalls away so the marshes are disappears and this is accelerating the process. and local officials including a parish president and he says it is like everyone forgot this is going on and he cannot get resolution. here is what he told me. >> the wildlife is still affected. the birds are still dying. t...

>> reporter: in lands south of new orleans, water is life. >> this is jimmy on the fringe. >> reporter: on the surface, life might seem back to normal. no slick of crude oil, no skimmer boats or emergency crews in the delicate wetlands, the disaster could have happened yesterday. this is one of the sensitive marsh islands in an area known as bay jimmy. you can see there is an inch of oil over here. if you give it a scrape, ten months later its become coming up almost liquid. the oil is killing t...