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Yucatan peninsula, a 5-hour drove if you were to drive from cozumel, if you come out for tourist reasons. we have a map, and if you look at t. this is massive, people here say this is the forgotten spill from 1979, 30 years ago, but it coasted almost the entire gulf coastline of mexico and even up to 160 miles of the texas coast. we went back through, using some of our affiliates in techs and other people we met and found video and reports from the tile and you can see that some of the video, ev...

Then fingers of it would get heated up and dribble back into the gulf. >> reporter: we had a chance to talk to marine biologist in the u.s., as well as in mexico, we went on a boat tour down here, they tell you that questions, -- yes, the gulf responded quickly. surprised many of them. over the first couple of years, most of the marine life close to shore died but by year three a lot of it had returned and 30 years ago, you -- years later you can still find tar balls. the oysters, they havent re...

Starting to boycott the state of arizona? feds say no. some democrats say yes, they are. we investigate with allan combs. stossel is here to tell us why gun control is bad. and sex-crazed poodle or innocent man? al gore is in kellys court today. all starts top of the hour. see you then. jamie: the oil disaster in the gulf is putting another spill back into the spotlight. it happened in 1979 when some 140 million gallons spilled into a deep water well that had blown out. it happened off mexicos y...

Following, two people die in shootings at a medical marijuana clinic, but the violence, its giving folks in one state pause before voters decide whether they will make smoking pot levment they do plan to do that, and they call it the other gulf spill. 140 million gallons of oil, spewing into the gulf. it happened three decades ago. adam housely is live in mexico on what lessons should be learned. adam? >> reporter: jamie, that spill covered most of the mexican gulf coast, it also covered about 1...

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Officials confirm one american is dead and 35 passengers have already been rescued. initial reports from mexico say the boat overturned in the sea of cortez after it was hit by two giant waves. >> reporter: the fisher moen had been bobbing in the sea of cortez for hours before anyone knew the boat had capsized. clinging to coolers hoping to be plucked from the water. the lucky ones were. one never made it its very difficult to find people in the water. its a small object in a large body of water...

Of the first people to go into the water and was not wearing a life vest at the time. the boat went down so quickly only about two miles off-shore. as we said the search is being expanded mainly were told because the water temperature about 77 degrees could apparently allow someone to survive for a long period of time, and that of course gives hope to the dorland family and others who have loved ones who are still missing off the coast of mexico. as we get more information well bring it to you g...

Trip went terribly wrong. at least seven americans are still missing in the warm gulf waters. rick folbaum is watch breaking news for us today and has an update. >> reporter: this is interesting. at first authorities in mexico said they were close to calling off the search for those missing americans, but now theyve reversed course, they are actually expanding it as you said to some 60 miles beyond where they know that fishing boat went down. we have some video that ive got on my ipad of the sea...

News, the front page of "the new york times" this morning reports that obama administration officials believe that pakistans spy agencies were related to the murder of a journalist. officials directed the attack on the journalist in after effort to silence his criticism of the government. he road skaegting reports about infiltration of militants into the country. days after he went missing, shahzads body was found outside islamabad. discloser could further strain the worsening relationship with ...