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Prototype that need that access. sometimes they dont have access to and from. so, again, with president trumps bold thinking, thats what we want to do is to sell everybody in congress the president, anybody out there, the people that are for it or against, it is border patrol needs the ability, the agents, need the ability to do their job, you know, effectively and fixturely. what happens is when those roads are there, these agents now will be able to drive five times as fast to respond to any p...

Helicopters and sinking barges. today a dredge. the first of many, trying to build a wall of sand. some of the most beautiful parts of louisiana where land and water are hard to distinguish are the most thetened by the spill. one dredge is trying to build a sand wall to protect them. you can see the sand pouring out of that pipe. the dredge is moving a thousand feet of dirt a day to the bottom. theyre trying to fight the oil offshore before it gets to the marshlands. >> reporter: of course the i...

Sacred. >> its a labor of love and respect family members sandbagging grave sites. saint andrews cemetery sits on the edge of a bayou. if the water rises too high. coffins could be swept away which happened across the gulf coast during hurricane katrina. >> my father-in-law is buried right over here. they are afraid if the daughter gets up high enough it may cause these above ground graves to float. so put a few sandbags on top of them and around them to try to help to keep them in the ground. >...