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Week. >> i want to play you some things from april and june when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has involved into an environmental challenge of the first order. >> already this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster america has ever faced. >> as we all know, there is no precedent for a leak of this size and at this depth. >> so basically environmental armageddon almost from the beginning. now we get this report that says, well, three-quarters of it ...

Space suit you would be dead . microbes zooming past and extra radiation you are exposed tompt you have to be careful. it is good to have your working partner and cue each other and work off other successes and ideas. but you have to be careful you dont entangle yourself in the pictures. >> they have been out there since seven tim time 19 this morning. thank you for the invoit on the telicate can crucial operation in space. >> youre welcome. >> this is a fox news alert in afghanistan. 6 american...

These microbes use oxygen to eat that. there are going to be dead zones, basically kill zones where all these microbes are eating this oil, where a fish swims through it, there is not going to be any oxygen left in that water at all, and those fish are going to have no chance of surviving. >> and thats a major problem for the gulf, these dead zones that we hear about. so this will be another one to deal with. >> right. >> and to bring it back to the weather, its just been blazing hot done there ...

Zukuft. he says the gulfs oil leading microbes are working twit as fast as predicted. oil expected to linger for a month is gone in half the time. what we do see are marshes growing back fresh green grass and flocks of feeding pelicans, all signs of an ecosystem on the rebound. did you ever think you would fly out over this bay again and see this water this clean? >> no. i thought we would have problems for years. but actually -- >> im amazed. this is the first time ive seen it in probably over ...

>> right. the oil is not gone. its still out there somewhere. >> but why is it were not seeing it on the surface. >> all right. here it is. im going to tell you. you take a gallon of paint, and you pour it on the ground, you see it. its a gallon of paint on the ground. thats not how the oil came out of this well. this well -- this oil came out like a shot. it came out like spray paint. so what was just a gallon of oil that poured on the ground was now a gallon of oil sprayed at 6,000 psi. it dis...

Finally cemented shut. what the clean-up effort could take years, some areas are rebounding a lot more quickly than expected. and they may have some really, really, really small clean-up workers to thank for it. david mattingly takes us on a trip over the marshlands of louisiana this morning. >> reporter: barataria bay was among the first and worst hit areas in louisiana when the oil started coming ashore. youd never know it looking at it now. im only seeing an occasional piece of sheen out here...

By the oil leak in the gulf of mexico. david mattingly took an aerial tour to see how its recovering. >> barataria bay was one of the worst hit when the oil started coming ashore. you would never know it looking at it now. >> im only seeing an occasional piece of sheen out here. is that all there is now? >> yes, it is. >> this is my second trip over the gulf in less than two weeks with federal clean-up coordinator paul zukoft, he says the gulfs oil-eating microbes are working twice as fast as pr...

The currents and tides but the good news is in terms of the oil, were seeing the end. it hasnt been leaking for over two weeks. it wont leak now and so we can really get focused on what has to happen in terms of long term restoration for the communities, for people and the jobs. >> shepard: i know you would forgive the good folks in the gulf south that feel theyve been lied to for so long, they cant stand anymore lice. -- lies. five years ago, help is on the way. now, 205 million gallons of oil ...

The microbes that live in the ocean water and a lot of people wondering, time magazine asking the simple question, where has all the oil gone. and are the dispersants responsible for it? that is to say down by the well head when it was exposing bp was pumping dispersants down as the water was gushing out. has that cleared some of the oil off the surface and are we seeing other long-term effects. >> if you think its magic that theyre not there anymore, it could actually just be something very dan...

Of mobile bay, alabama. in part, that is due to the fact that oil is evaporating, some of the microbes are eating it. but i can tell you its still there. last night we were out on the gulf about seven miles from empire rocks off the coast of louisiana and we found huge stretches of oil, but not in those big streaks, in tiny little pieces. so it is taking a different shape. it is still coming ashore and the coast parish presidents wants to make sure they have assets to fight it once the well is c...