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Needed jobs to the area. phil keating is live in the miami bureau. tell us about the the underwater corral areas. theyre almost like farms. >> they truly are, martha, they are like you would see in a tomato familiar or some other vegetable and they grow stag horn and elk horn corral which are the only two species listed on the ang dangered species. they were punished and decimated in large population numbers in the 1980s and when you -- what you have are rows of cinder block and pipe, rows attac...

Sustein, the most dangerous man in america, the guy that takes the laws and then turns them into regulation. all these bills are, is someone else regulates. he is the guy who is that "someone else." and with cap and trade we dont have to look any further than the epa. but the epa is just protecting you. these are the same people who thought it would be good to dump oil tires in subway cars into the ocean to make reefs for the fish. that to me sounds a lot less like helping the environment and mo...

Sustein, the most dangerous man in america, the guy that takes the laws and then turns them into regulation. all these bills are, is someone else regulates. he is the guy who is that "someone else." and with cap and trade we dont have to look any further than the epa. but the epa is just protecting you. these are the same people who thought it would be good to dump oil tires in subway cars into the ocean to make reefs for the fish. that to me sounds a lot less like helping the environment and mo...

Medicines. >> interesting sponges that have produced novel chemicals that have activity against certain types of cancer like pancreatic cancer or colon or breast cancer. one sponge in particular that were working on now is a glass sponge thats found in deep water. >> pomponi says this reef gets a clean bill of health for now, but its still a rush to collect as many samples as possible for a baseline, incase oil reaches the reef in the near future. >> so you guys are like the crime scene investig...

The u.s. government can use its data to build its case to sue bp to restore the reefs. the biggest thing the scientists we traveled out with were concerned about was bps use of dispersants. since the oil spill happened, bp has pumped almost 1.5 million gallons of dispersants into the gulf. they break the oil into little bitty pieces sometimes so small the eye cant see them, and just friday, the day we took off, noah released a study that showed monitoring of underwater oil plumes that decreased ...

Traditional somali society. they have banned music. they have banned bras. they have killed people wa watching soccer games. they have stoned people to death. they have cut off hands of suspected reefs. >> not a way to win friends and influence people? >> not in a place that didnt have any history of that brand of islam and that is what we are seeing. we are at the point where the transitional government of somalia has an unusual opportunity. people dont like the shabaab. they are basically terr...

Democrats. when you talk to them, they say, you know who our obstacle is? it is not republicans, not business, its the unions and the democratic party status quo. how deep is in faultline? is it going to keep getting bigger? >> i dont see a closing unless we get a critical mass of reefs and kleins out there fighting for the kids. clearly the party, politicians, congress has decided to side with adults who run public education instead of the kids. >> the president is uniquely positioned, democrat...

This time a million gallons of oil to still deal with this the gulf of mexico. >> even after that the residual effect seafood industry is going to suffer for a while, correct? >> reporter: yeah it has been suffering so badly as well. im on a slim -- shrimping boat it is being contracted out like so many others. today was a busy saturday for sports fishermen in louisiana. most of the recreational fishing waters were closed off to the public. the governor lift the ban over 80% reopened. weve seen ...

The life out of the reefs, this is what one under water scientist to us moments ago. >> we are getting reports from further out locations that are popular fishing sites and dive sites, further off than we have investigat, rently, and in the st week,nd that there is a -- a definite drop in the fish population, they are already moving off and finding safer locations. >> reporter: jae, he said when a reef dies it is called a bleaching effect and it could be devastating and it isifficult to bring th...

Mexico, the coastal areas with the cnn express which you see here. this is our big bus. yesterday i was in alabama. shrimpers working, oystermen working suffered a huge setback five years ago when hurricane katrina took a big piece of their reef out. oysters survive in a combination of saltwater and freshwater. and this messed things up. they havent been able to harvest oysters or shrimp in that area since then. so oystermen and shrimpers have had to go out much farther to do their work. this ye...